Coffin to become president of Bankers Trust

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Don Coffin, who joined Bankers Trust Co. in 2008 as senior vice president of lending, has been promoted to president, effective March 1.


Don Coffin

The announcement comes as the bank has gone through a series of transitions in the last two years, including creating the positions of chief operations officer and chief marketing officer and chief of staff, a job that was established to lessen some of the time constraints on and community demands for the time of President and CEO Suku Radia.


In 2013, Coffin was promoted to executive vice president and chief lending officer and currently manages a team of lenders with a loan portfolio exceeding $3 billion.


Coffin is part of an executive leadership team that has led the company in its sixth consecutive year of profitable growth as it works toward the bank’s long-term goal of being recognized as the highest-performing Midwest regional bank.


Radia rarely misses an opportunity to praise Coffin for his talents.


“One of the most important responsibilities I have as a leader is to help ensure the momentum of our success continues,” Radia said in a release. “That is why I am especially pleased to have worked with the board and for the first time in our history promoted someone from within for the position of president. The continuity of leadership is a key part of our future success, and I sincerely appreciate the board’s support of this important decision.”


Before joining Bankers Trust, Coffin served as the managing director of national commercial banking with Chicago-based The PrivateBank and Trust Co. He also held the position of senior vice president and Central Region leader at LaSalle National Bank. where he managed the Colorado, Nebraska and Iowa offices.


Coffin is a graduate of the University of Northern Iowa. In 2000, he was a member of the inaugural class of the Business Record’s Forty Under 40.


In June 2011, he was awarded the Individual Governor’s Volunteer Award and in 2012 received Easter Seals Iowa’s first annual Bob and Billie Ray Board Leadership Award.


“We clearly have great confidence in both Suku and Don, and have every reason to believe they, along with the talented employees of Bankers Trust, will take the bank’s performance to even greater heights,” Bankers Trust Chairman John Ruan III said in a release.