People on the move

Jennifer Carlson recently joined Central Bancshares, Inc., of Muscatine, Iowa as senior operations officer. A graduate of the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, she has more than 20 years of financial services industry experience and has served in key managerial positions with several banks in east-central Iowa, the Iowa/Illinois Quad Cities, and the Minnesota Twin Cities area. Most recently she was with Anchor Bank in Wayzata and Plymouth, Minn., where she served as vice president of retail banking..Timothy Thompson has joined Drake Bank, St. Paul, Minn., as a commercial lender. Thompson brings more than 30 years of commercial banking experience. He has served as a commercial lender and corporate credit officer at a number of community and regional banks in the Twin City area. In addition to originating countless construction, real estate, operating, and equipment loans for businesses, his responsibilities have included management of large commercial portfolios and virtually every lending function in a bank.Thompson is a graduate of the University of Minnesota, Morris..Teresa Ziebarth, CFMP, has joined KleinBank, Chaska, Minn., as senior vice president chief marketing and human resources officer. She will also serve as a member of the KleinBank executive team..Ziebarth brings more than 20 years of expertise in the financial services industry. She comes to KleinBank from Wells Fargo Bank where she served as vice president of leadership and management development, and director of the sales learning academy. She has also held executive level positions with Marquette Financial Companies and Farm Credit System, Inc..Originally from Luverne, Minn., Ziebarth has a bachelor of science degree from Minnesota State University, Mankato. She has a Certified Financial Marketing Professional certification from the Institute of Certified Bankers and is a graduate of the ABA School of Bank Marketing Executive Program at the University of Colorado. Ziebarth also graduated with distinction from the ABA Stonier Graduate School of Banking at the University of Delaware..Dan Sherfinski has been promoted to vice president of business banking at River Valley Bank in Wausau, Wis. In his new role he will be responsible for business development and portfolio management. .Howard V. "Rick" Richardson, a retired partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, has been elected to the board of directors at Wells Fargo & Co., effective Jan 1..Richardson will serve on the board's audit and examination committee. His election increases the size of the company's board to 16 directors..Richardson held a variety of positions with PwC, including U.S. financial services and banking leader from 1996 to 2000, and global banking/capital markets leader from 1998 to 2002.