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West Bank, a $1.4 billion West Des Moines, Iowa-based bank, is opening a loan production office in Rochester, Minn. The bank said it will explore adding additional services in the future..Mike Zinser has joined West Bank to serve as market president. Zinser, a Rochester native, has more than 20 years of financial services experience and most recently was a regional business banking manager for Wells Fargo's Business Banking division in Rochester. Zinser's banking career includes experience as a vice president/principal business banker, working with larger, middle market businesses..Joining Zinser are Mike Schletty and Michele Sursely. .Schletty joins as vice president. His career spans more than 10 years, most recently as a senior business banker for Wells Fargo in the Rochester and Austin, Minn., markets. Sursely, a 32-year Wells Fargo veteran, joins the bank as second vice president and commercial banking assistant..Dave Nelson, West Bank president/CEO is familiar with Rochester. Before joining West Bank in 2010, he previously served as president of Wells Fargo Rochester..John C. Stern will succeed Kenneth D. Nelson as corporate treasurer, effective July 1 at U.S. Bancorp., in Minneapolis. Nelson, who has served as executive vice president and corporate treasurer since 2008, has announced his retirement..Stern, 34, is currently senior vice president and manager of corporate funding and derivatives and has been in that group since 2002. Stern joined the bank in 2000..Nelson, 60, has been with U.S. Bancorp since 1984. Nelson has a bachelor's degree in business administration and economics from Mankato State University in Mankato, Minn., and a masters of business administration degree from the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minn..Stern has a bachelor's degree in business from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis and an MBA from the University of St. Thomas.