A community bank that opened last month is believed to be the first bank founded and...
Agility Bank CEO Lauren Sparks, founder of Agility Bank, a community bank with a focus on technology and growing small and medium-sized businesses, Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in Houston.in the banking industry, Lauren Sparks saw few women move into C-level suites or the corporate board room. When banks merged, a common occurrence in recent history, women executives were often among the first to get pinks slips as staffs consolidated.
Sparks began her career in banking while attending Rice University in the 1980s, working part-time as a teller at Charter Bank. She went on to work at that bank for almost nine years before striking out as a consultant to banks, and in 2010 founded her own company, Third Party Resources, which specializes in risk management and regulatory compliance.“I don’t think people mean to push other people out,” Sparks said. “They just don’t understand.
“If there’s anything I learned in all these years, it’s that if we don’t have community banks, we have a problem,” she said. “Because that’s where people go when the big banks won’t talk to you.” The fundraising campaign began in February 2021—the very week that a brutal winter storm knocked out heat and power for millions of Texans.
one of just four women working as loan officers in the entire city. And in the early 1990s, she was approached by several Houston businesswomen who had built their own companies, and wanted to start a women-led bank.
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