Mike Hix, Praveen Ah Sam, Andrea Cantlon, Craig DeGiovanni and Robin Page have been promoted at First Independent Bank of Nevada.
Hix was promoted to senior vice president and branch administrator.He oversees all branch locations, marketing and the bank's commercial mortgage division of the Bank.
He is a business graduate of the University of Nevada, Reno, a graduate of the Pacific Coast Banking School at the University of Washington and has 23 years of banking experience in the Reno/Sparks area.
Ah Sam was promoted to assistant vice president and branch operations officer II.
She began her banking career in 1992 with Pioneer Citizens Bank.
She joined First Independent Bank in 2001 and oversees daily operations at the Sparks Marina Branch.
Cantlon as promoted to assistant vice president and private banker II.
She started with First Independent Bank in 2001 as an operations officer before moving into business development in 2003.
She has more than 12 years of banking experience and attended Truckee Meadows Community College and the University of Nevada, Reno.
DeGiovanni was promoted assistant vice president and network administrator.
He holds a bachelor's degree in business from the University of Phoenix, and has 10 years of banking experience.
He oversees technical operations and network security for the bank.
Page was promoted to assistant vice president and staff accountant II.
She's a graduate of the University of Nevada, Reno with a bachelor's degree in finance and has more than 19 years of accounting experience.
Her responsibilities include asset liability analysis, preparing budgets, accounting for all fixed assets and handling the bank's holding
company financials.
