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CONNECTIONS
Tim Daly
Great Lakes (IL, IN, KY, OH, PA and WV)
Tim Daly, an ICBA MRO for going on
four years, has lived his whole life in Valparaiso,
Ind., which he jokingly refers to
as " Vale of Paradise. "
" I made it a whole block and a half, "
he says. " My brother, who's my mailman,
lives in the house that I grew up
in. It's a perfect little town. We're an hour from Chicago, so I
can go there for a ball game or live music. "
Daly put in one job application after college,
more than 20 years ago. He's been in the banking
and banking solutions industries ever since.
He's planted deep roots in his local community,
too. Daly has served on Valparaiso's City Council,
the Valparaiso Park Board and the Porter
County Museum Foundation. He and his wife's
two young children keep busy thanks to sports,
choir, robotics, and after-school language classes and
other activities.
Daly says he takes pride in his work because he gets to
help community bankers help communities of all kinds.
" You learn a lot from people, their ways of life, " he says.
" One day I may be in an Amish community and the next day
I could be in Chicago. "
Local knowledge
Wrigley Field
Chicago
Luckily for Tim Daly, a lifelong Chicago Cubs
fan, the team's home is only about an hour's
drive from his home in Valparaiso, Ind. In his free time, Daly
coaches youth sports.
Brandy Smallbrock
Northwest (AK, CA, HI, ID, MN, MT, ND,
NV, OR, SD, UT, WA and WY)
Community banking is a
family aff air for Brandy
Smallbrock.
She's spent more than fi ve
Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport
Minneapolis
When you have both Alaska and
Hawaii in your region, getting
friendly with airports around the
country isn't a choice. Brandy Smallbrock
favors hubs in Salt Lake City; Portland, Ore.; and
Sacramento, Calif., but MSP is among her favorites. " It's
busy but never out of control, " she says. " It actually feels like
my off ice. "
years with ICBA, including the past year
and a half as a member relationship offi
cer representing a swath of the country
stretching from California to her resident state of Minnesota,
plus Alaska and Hawaii. Before Smallbrock joined the
association, she met her husband-a community banker-
while working for a bank.
Outside the banking world, Smallbrock keeps busy volunteering
with her church, a school planning committee and a
local nonprofi t. She and her husband frequently ferry their
three children-eighth-, ninth- and 10th-graders-to sporting
events near the St. Cloud, Minn., area where they live.
Whether it's dance competitions, baseball games or even
bass fi shing tournaments, Smallbrock says there's always
some activity going on. They like to relax in true Minnesota
fashion. " We love spending time on the lake, " she says.
With such a large region to cover, Smallbrock is on the
road constantly. Occasionally, a community bank trip will
take her near her hometown of Crosby, N.D., on the border
near Montana and Canada.
" I've been to 18 diff erent states [in 2018]. It's crazy, "
she says.
" There is nothing community bankers can't call us
about and ask a question about. "
-Brandy Smallbrock, ICBA
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