My goal for 2024 is to make small, obtainable goals. For January, my goal is to compliment at least one new person a day genuinely. I love seeing the smile on someone’s face when they receive an unexpected kind word😊
Tiffany McDowell
Private Banking Associate – DFW
My goal for 2024 is to start each day with a positive outlook and recognize that any challenges I face are opportunities to become a better person. I will make an effort to understand that every experience – whether big or small – has the potential to teach me something valuable.
Brent Baldree
President – Commercial Banking
My goal for 2024 is to remember that opportunities don’t just happen; I must create them.
David E. DeStefano
Bee Cave Market President – Hill Country

My goals for 2024 are to focus on relationship building, internally and externally, to continuously learn, mentor, share experiences and opportunities with others, and to build upon our wonderful sense of community here at Texas Regional Bank.
Lewis H. Gissel III
Houston Region President- Houston
My goal for 2024 is to slow down, kick my feet up, and take the time to read more books.
Ricki Wilson
Real Estate Loan Processor- DFW
My goal for 2024 is to make time for family and friends because Life is too short, so live it up and live one day at a time!!
Yvette Vasquez
Banking Center Operations Manager- RGV

My goal for 2024 is to focus on Health, Happiness, and Humanity. I want to be the best I can be for my family, friends, and career. I want to concentrate on the positives and eliminate the negatives by recognizing what I can control and change.
Dawn Kemp
Mortgage Loan Officer- Houston
My goal for 2024 is to listen more and to express my gratitude for others. I appreciate many people in my professional and personal life, and they deserve to know.
Cesar A. Suarez
Chief Banking Officer- RGV
My goals for 2024 are Love, Positivity, Smiles, & Gratitude.
Love & Positivity are contagious; spread them often. Our world needs them.
Sprinkle your day with smiles & watch your world light up.
Gratitude offers an instant mood boost.
Anabel S. Navarro
Market President- RGV
My goal for 2024 is to grow closer to God and intentionally read my bible more.
Cindy Funk
Loan Processor- DFW

My goal for 2024 is to not just be there with my children but to be included with my children.
Alisyn Powers
Banking Center Operations Manager- Hill Country
Mahatma Gandhi: “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” My goal in 2024 is to be more social and meet new people near and far.
Carlo Montavlo
Management Trainee- RGV
My goal for 2024 is to be clear-minded, focused, and result-oriented.
J.J. Gomez
Regional President- DFW
If you are not willing to do more than you are being paid for, you will never be paid for more than you’re doing. You’ve got to give and graciously receive willingly. And if you must think before you give, you are trading; you are not giving.
Troy Bernhardt
Mont Belvieu/Baytown Market President- Houston
My goal in 2024 is to continue to work towards a healthier me and to make the most out of what life has to offer.
Dani Renteria
Human Resources Generalist- RGV

My goal for 2024 is to be more intentional with stewarding the gifts God has given me. In particular, my health and my relationships.
Desiree De Leon
Portfolio Manager – Lender- Hill Country
My goal for 2024 is to continue to learn, be teachable, and bring value to the bank however I can.
Bryan S. Duffy
Chief Real Estate Officer- RGV
My goal for 2024 is to try to balance my two families as perfectly as possible: my close family (Wife and kids) and my TRB family! This has always been the toughest challenge, but it is still something we need to pursue every day!
Ricardo Elias
International Private Banker- DFW
My goal for 2024 is…
Connected to growth. A promise and a passion to see who I can become when…
I practice presence and connect with the moment,
I feel grateful for what I do have,
I choose to act with intention,
I am mindful of the emotions I am feeling,
I focus on what I can control,
I reframe how I speak to myself,
And when I take time to lower stress.
“Why not see what kind of person you can become?” Jim Rohn
Chet Reed
Regional Sales Officer- Hill Country
This year, my resolution is to face challenges with more grace and less resistance, with the expectation of learning something new about myself and others.
Jamie L. Brown-Rosas
Director of Business Development & Community Engagement- RGV
My goal for 2024 is to read through my family’s recipe book and learn how to make traditional Mexican breads and pastries.
Gaby Garza
Chief Credit Officer- RGV

My goals for 2024 are to recognize what I can and cannot control, apologize less, bike 2000+ miles, and marry my fiancé, Gretchen!
Gregory Lick
Commercial Loan Officer- Hill Country
My goal for 2024 is to remember to be appreciative of all things. To strive to be kind to everyone. To continue to invest in positive and healthy relationships. To play more golf. I try not to take Kentucky Wildcat basketball too seriously.
Ryan Newman, CIC
President, TRB Insurance- RGV
I really didn’t do a New Year goals this year, but here is a quote I like from C.S. Lewis : “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream”
Megan Steube
Mortgage Operations Lead (Specialty)- Hill Country
My goals for 2024 are to have more balance, think more globally, share more often, be more open, and consistently deepen relationships.
Michael Lamon
President – Banking Administration- RGV
My goals for 2024 are to spend more time with family and appreciate the small things in life.
Abby Guzman
Banking Center Operations Manager- RGV

My goal for 2024 is to spread kindness everywhere I go, find the positive in every situation, and prioritize self-care
Isabel Aguirre, CSR
Client Service Representative/Producer- RGV
My goal for 2024 is to spend more time with my family and friends.
Denis Lopez
BSA Analyst- RGV
My goals in 2024 are to live, love, and listen more. Live more in the moment instead of planning ahead, love my family and friends more because tomorrow isn’t guaranteed, and listen to myself when I need to take a break or someone else when they need to be heard.
Heather Cathey
Banking Center Operations Supervisor- Hill Country
My goal for 2024 is to spend more time with loved ones, especially with my 85-year-old mother, whom I am so thankful and blessed to have in good health.
Hilda Lazos
Administrative Officer- RGV
My goal for 2024 is to be more adventurous! The best is yet to come!
Johana Hernandez I.
Foreign Exchange Specialist- RGV
My goals for 2024 are to be more meaningful with my time, read the bible more, and hike the Grand Canyon from rim to rim.
Heather Reed
Marketing Content Creator- Hill Country

My goal for 2024 is to deepen, strengthen, and grow the relationships I have in life – both personally and professionally.
Ben Ingram
Commercial Loan Officer- Hill Country
My goal for 2024 is to exercise more and live life to the fullest. ‘Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing’- Sarah Ban Breathnach.
April Raya
Customer Care Specialist- RGV
Read the Bible in chronological order within one year. I started in October so I’m 25% done!
Grant Buck
That Marketing Guy – Hill Country
My goals for 2024 are to explore my surroundings more often and say “Yes” more.
Kevin Whitworth
Wealth Management Advisor- Houston

Make it a great year TRB!