Mike Sobba, Vice Chairman, Chief Operations Officer, began his banking career at the First National Bank in Topeka, Kansas after graduation from the University of Kansas in 1984. After working in the bank's training program, he started calling on bankers in Kansas while working in the correspondent department. Mike attended ABA's National Commercial Lending School in Norman, Oklahoma in 1986 and became manager of the correspondent division in 1988. After completing seven years of service at Bank IV (formerly FNB Topeka), he became the manager of the Correspondent Division of Commerce Bank in Kansas City in November 1991. His duties included managing a $50MM loan portfolio, selling operational services to downstream banks, and working with Capital Markets group and Investment Management area in the Midwest. He successfully completed work at the Graduate School of Banking in Madison, WI. in 1993. Mike's civic involvment includes being past president of Topeka Chapter of the American Institute of Banking and he has served on numerous Missouri and Kansas Bankers Association committees. Mike and his wife, Debbie, have two boys, Chris and Nick.