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Liandra Hoffman

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The Granite Bank mortgage team poses for a picture in front of its Champlin, Minn., office. Jacob Reiter, EVP-CEO, is part of the ownership family that has turned the bank into a mortgage powerhouse.

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Kaydi Sobottka leads the bank’s "Culture" committee, which annually conducts a diaper drive benefiting the "Diaper Bank" of United Way St. Croix and Red Cedar Valleys. Sobottka is vice president, human resources at the First National Bank of River Falls, Wis.

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Kaydi Sobottka

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Rudy Fors

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