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Bob Regnier is the Chairman, President & CEO of Bank of Blue Valley and Chairman & CEO of Blue Valley Ban Corp (the Company). He began his banking career with the Boatmen’s Bank organization in 1970 as a Safe Deposit Clerk. During his eighteen year career, Bob advanced to Teller, Posting Clerk, Assistant Branch Manager, Commercial Officer, Senior Vice President and Executive Vice President, Division Head, responsible at various times for Operations, Administration, Correspondent Department, International Department, New Business Development, Secretary to the Board, Chief Operating Officer, Compliance, Funds Management, Cash Management, Mortgage Loans, Installment Loans, Commercial Lending, Personnel and Retail.
In 1989, Bob left Boatmen’s with the dream of starting a bank to offer community banking to Johnson County, Kansas and to the Kansas City metropolitan area. His vision was one of a community bank that would provide banking services to closely-held businesses, their owners, professionals and individuals as well as small to mid-sized commercial borrowers.
Bob was responsible for the organizing and development of investors for the newly chartered bank for which he was responsible for the charter application, selection and acquisition of the initial location and staffing. The Company was initially capitalized at $2,150,000 with approximately 50 shareholders. The Company initiated a secondary offering in 1993 raising an additional $2,000,000 to assist in the construction of our principal building location at 119th & Metcalf.
Over the succeeding years the Company has successfully issued two trust preferred offerings totaling $18,000,000. The total capital of the Company has expanded from its $2,150,000 initial capital base to in excess of $48,000,000. In 2000, in conjunction with its first trust preferred offering, the Company became an SEC reporting company. This trust preferred offering trades on the American Stock Exchange under the symbol BLV.pr. In July of 2002 the Company’s common stock was listed on the Over the Counter Bulletin Board under the symbol BVBC. | 