VersaBank announced the appointments of Roland Bailey as Executive Director, Indigenous Infrastructure Program and Robert-Falcon Ouellette as Executive Director, Indigenous Housing Initiatives, to lead the infrastructure and home financing channels, respectively, as VersaBank relaunches its Indigenous and Remote Community Lending business. From its inception in 1993 until 2008, VersaBank had an active and very successful lending business focused on serving the unique needs of Indigenous and remote communities in Canada, and was, at one time, the largest lender to both. During this period, VersaBank provided hundreds of millions of dollars in financing for both private and public infrastructure projects, including schools, hospitals, seniors' living facilities, water treatment facilities, clean energy, apartment buildings, recreational centres, and various small business projects to support entrepreneurial endeavours, among others. Roland Bailey, born in the Yukon, has spent most of his life in the Northwest Territories and has more than three decades of experience in business and with government, with a specific focus on infrastructure projects. He is currently Principal of Roland C. Bailey & Associates. Robert-Falcon Ouellette is from the Red Pheasant Cree Nation (near Battleford, Saskatchewan). Dr. Ouellette is a previous Member of Parliament (2014 to 2018) for Winnipeg Centre, during which time he also served as the chair of Indigenous Caucus and was a member of the Standing Committee on Health and Finance.