Home BancShares, Inc., while celebrating twenty-five years as a bank, announce some adjustments to the management team, as they look towards the future. In addition to the role of Chief Lending Officer, Kevin Hester has been named as President of Home BancShares. Hester has served as the Company?s senior lender since the Company began twenty-five years ago.
John Allison will remain as Executive Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Home BancShares. Kevin Hester joined Centennial Bank (formerly First State Bank) in 1998 as Executive Vice President of Lending and became Chief Lending Officer of Centennial Bank in 2010. He has more than 35 years of banking experience.
Hester is a graduate of the University of Central Arkansas with a bachelors? degree in accounting and is an honor graduate of the National Commercial Lending School in Norman, Oklahoma. He is also a board member of Centennial Bank.
Home BancShares, Inc. is a bank holding company. The Company is primarily engaged in providing a range of commercial and retail banking and related financial services to businesses, real estate developers and investors, individuals and municipalities through its wholly owned community bank subsidiary, Centennial Bank (the Bank). The Bank originates loans primarily secured by single and multi-family real estate, residential construction, and commercial buildings. In addition, the Bank makes loans to small and medium-sized commercial businesses as well as to consumers for a variety of purposes. The Bank offers a range of deposit services, including checking, savings, money market accounts and certificates of deposit. The Bank offers a range of products and services, including 24-hour Internet banking, mobile banking and voice response information, cash management, overdraft protection, direct deposit, safe deposit boxes, United States savings bonds and automatic account transfers.
HOME BANCSHARES, INC. (CONWAY, AR) 
