Starion Financial has promoted Cody Clark to personal banker, and Melissa Werner will be a customer service representative and receptionist at its downtown Mandan bank.
Clark and Werner will open personal and business accounts, including checking and savings, certificates of deposit and IRAs.
Clark also will help bank customers with loans and lines of credit for home improvements, automobiles and other personal needs.
Clark joined Starion Financial as a customer service representative in October last year. He has several years of retail, cash management and customer service experience. He attended the University of …

Starion Financial has hired Scooter Pinks as a mortgage banking officer at its Bismarck bank on North Washington Street and Century Avenue. Pinks will help customers identify suitable mortgages to meet their needs, guide them through the qualifying process, and provide customer service. He can help customers finance new home purchases, refinances, new construction, lot loans, investment property or vacation homes to fit their budgets. He has more than 12 years of sales and consulting experience in the Bismarck- Mandan area, including the sale of commercial real estate property and …

Starion Financial has promoted three employees in its Bismarck market. Cheryl Hildebrand and Jan Kramer are each promoted to assistant vice president of personal banking and Josie Palanuk is promoted to personal banking officer. Hildebrand works at the location on North 4th Street and Rosser Ave. She has been in lending and customer service since 1972 in North Dakota, Minn. and Iowa.
Kramer works at the branch on North Washington Street and Century Avenue. She has 15 years of banking experience and attended Minot State University and Lake Region State College, …

Starion Financial has hired Shawna Eckroth as a mortgage operations specialist, working at its Mandan location, and has promoted Courtney Schweyen to teller supervisor, overseeing tellers at its downtown Bismarck location and at Starion Plaza on Highway 83 North and Skyline Boulevard. Eckroth processes mortgage loans and investor purchases and records and maintains mortgage loan documentation. She has five years of previous experience in the financial services industry.
Schweyen will help hire and train branch tellers, prepare work schedules, approve transactions as required, and enforce other policies and procedures, in addition …

Tim Karsky has been named president of the Bismarck market for Starion Financial. He had formerly been commissioner of the Department of Financial Institutions for the State of North Dakota for the past nine years, and served as assistant commissioner prior to taking the top post.
Karsky has nearly three decades of banking experience, including working as a bank examiner for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and North Dakota’s banking department. He also worked as a commercial lender at a bank. Karsky will manage the downtown Bismarck location, which has a …

Starion Financial has developed seminars to educate the public about identity theft. The company’s employees are available to present this information to students, community and service groups, businesses, churches, senior centers and other organizations.
The seminars teach ways to protect against common methods of identity theft, ways to guard confidential information, and provide instructions if someone’s identity has been compromised.
The presentations can be modified from 20- to 90-minute lengths to fit within an organization’s agenda. To schedule an identity theft presentation, contact Lelan Bosch at 250-1448 or lelanb@starionfinancial.com.