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NCBA Peer Groups
Connect with banking professionals who understand your role, exchange practical ideas and build relationships with peers across North Carolina.
How Peer Groups Work
Built Around the Work You Do
NCBA Peer Groups connect banking professionals around shared roles, responsibilities and areas of expertise.
Each group creates a place to exchange practical ideas, discuss changes affecting your work and build relationships with colleagues across North Carolina banking.
Find Your Group
Choose the peer group that best matches your role, department or area of responsibility within your bank.
Join the Conversation
Connect with professionals facing many of the same questions, challenges and opportunities you encounter in your own work.
Stay Connected
Exchange insights, compare approaches and strengthen relationships with peers throughout North Carolina’s banking community.
Find Your Peers
Explore the NCBA Peer Groups
Browse the groups below to find the community that best aligns with your work.
Bank Trainers Peer Group
Chaired by: Ryan Morgan, North State Bank
Staff Liason: Jen Mathis
The Bank Trainers Peer Group brings together professionals responsible for designing, delivering, and managing employee training within North Carolina banks. Whether their focus is onboarding, compliance, leadership development, or upskilling, members share ideas and challenges to strengthen learning programs across the industry. It’s a space for practical insight, collaboration, and staying ahead of the curve in bank training needs.
Chief Financial Officers Peer Group
Chaired by: Lindsey Huffman, blueharbor bank
Staff Liaison: Suzanne Brooks
The role of the bank CFO/Controller is becoming increasingly challenging as interest margins are compressed, the accounting, tax and regulatory environment remain in a state of flux and competition is intensified.
Chief Credit Officers Peer Group
Chaired by: John Parker, KS Bank
Staff Liaison: Rocky Herring
Join this discussion with fellow Chief Credit Officers and similar roles. This peer group will facilitate conversations on essential information to make their banks and lenders more profitable and competitive.
Compliance Peer Group
Chaired by: Kevin Saunders, First Bank
Staff Liaison: Nathan Batts
Compliance in the banking industry is always evolving and it’s important for compliance officers to stay informed with new legislation and regulations coming out of D.C. This peer group is intended for compliance, security, and BSA officers.
Human Resources Peer Group
Chaired by: Emily Hinesley, First Bank
Staff Liaison: Lauren Perry
The NCBA Human Resources Peer Group connects HR professionals from banks across the state to share ideas, challenges, and solutions in today’s evolving workplace. Whether you’re navigating recruitment, retention, compensation, compliance, or culture—this group offers a space to learn from peers who understand the unique dynamics of banking HR.
Mutual Peer Group
Chaired by: Carrie Lackey, Taylorsville Savings Bank
Staff Liaison: Lynn Johnson
The mutual peer group, open to employees of mutual depository institutions, will serve as a gathering place to discuss issues unique to mutually-owned banks as well as important industry trends.
Risk Officer Peer Group
Chaired by: Sandra Gaskell, Piedmont Federal
Staff Liaison: Teresa Satchell
The Risk Officers Peer Group offers a platform for banking professionals to discuss emerging risks, regulatory challenges, and effective risk management strategies. This group fosters collaboration and knowledge-sharing to strengthen risk oversight across North Carolina’s banking industry.
Carolinas CRA Resource Collaborative
Co-Chaired by: Sedrick McCallum, SouthState Bank & Lethia Mann, Regions Bank
Staff Liaison: David Bennett
The Carolinas CRA Resource Collaborative is a networking group for bank CRA professionals in North and South Carolina. The Collaborative meets several times per year, providing a forum for CRA professionals from banks of all sizes to learn, educate, collaborate and share CRA practices in order to better develop CRA programs that meet the needs of the communities they serve.