Thursday, March 28, 2024

OBA Staff

Executive Staff

Adrian Beverage, President & CEO

Adrian Beverage, President & CEO

Email: adrian@oba.com
Phone Ext. #: 118

Adrian Beverage is an Oklahoma native. He joined the OBA in 2000 and became president and CEO of the Association in 2021.

He graduated in 1999 from Southeastern Oklahoma State University with a bachelor’s degree in communications and political science where he once coached men’s basketball.

 

Lea Ann Jackson, COO/CFO

Lea Ann Jackson, COO/CFO

Lea Ann JacksonEmail: leaann@oba.com
Phone Ext. #: 112

Lea Ann Jackson joined the OBA in May 1994.  She is a certified public accountant and a certified association executive, as well as a licensed insurance agent.  She served on the Governor’s Task Force for Recovery after the May 3, 1999, tornado and was a finalist for The Journal Record Woman of the Year in 1999.

Prior to joining the OBA, Jackson was controller for a medical research foundation and spent five years with the international accounting firm of Deloitte & Touche.

Jackson is a native of Ada and holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science with her studies done at the University of Wyoming and the University of Central Oklahoma.

Accounting Staff

Kathryn Donovan, Director of Accounting

Kathryn Donovan, Director of Accounting

Email: kathryn@oba.com
Phone Ext. #: 130

Kathryn Donovan joined the OBA in December 2018 as the Director of Accounting. Originally from Ada, she graduated from East Central University with an accounting degree. Kathryn is a wife to her husband Larry for 35 years, a mother of two and grandmother of three. She previously worked in accounting for an oil and gas business, and later a wholesale lumber business. In 1985, Kathryn was a World Champion Skeet Shooter, a member of the Oklahoma and National Skeet Shooting Hall of Fame. She currently lives in Edmond and enjoys baking, gardening, watching her son play hockey and competitive skeet shooting.

Communications

Jeremy Cowen, Senior Vice President/Communications

Jeremy Cowen, Senior Vice President/Communications

Email: jeremy@oba.com
Phone Ext. #: 113

Jeremy has been in charge of the Oklahoma Banker newspaper as well as the OBA Web site and other member communications since joining the OBA in January 2002. A native of Hartshorne, he enjoys meeting and talking with the different people he encounters while doing his job. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma and a master of arts degree from OU with an emphasis in strategic communication. Previously, Jeremy worked as a sports writer in Lawton and, for the four years prior to joining the OBA, Lubbock, Texas, where he decided the town wasn’t big enough for both him and Bobby Knight. When not working, Jeremy is also an adjunct journalism instructor at the University of Oklahoma. He also loves to hike, read, watch football, baseball and boxing. And, if you ask, there’s a good chance he will regale you with the story about being interviewed on ESPN by Chris Fowler.

Kayden Anderson, Communications Intern

Kayden Anderson, Communications Intern

Email: kayden@oba.com
Phone Ext. #: 128

Kayden Anderson joined the OBA as the communications intern in August 2023. She is a sophomore journalism major at the University of Oklahoma.

Anderson, a native of Vian, is a Gaylord Ambassador and writer for Gaylord News. She was previously a member of the 2022-2023 Gaylord’s Dean’s Leadership Class.

Education and Training

Janis Reeser, Executive Vice President/Education

Janis Reeser, Executive Vice President/Education

Email: janis@oba.com
Phone Ext. #: 125

Reeser joined the OBA in 1984 as education secretary and was quickly promoted to Director of Banking Schools. She has been in her current position as Director of Education for over 30 years.  

She is a graduate of Leadership Edmond and Leadership Oklahoma. Reeser serves on the board of directors for Junior Achievement and the Oklahoma Council on Economic Education.

Debbie Leake, Conference/Meeting Coordinator

Debbie Leake, Conference/Meeting Coordinator

Debbie Leake

Email: debbie@oba.com
Phone Ext. #: 102

Debbie Leake has been with the OBA since 1999. She previously served in the U.S. military in several capacities: as a hydraulics mechanic for C-130s in the Navy, and in field artillery and combat battalions for the National Guard Maryland and Reserve National Guard California.

Leake also taught drug and alcohol awareness for seven years at the University of Arizona. She is licensed in Maine and California as an LPN. She also has served as a church secretary, paraprofessional multi handicapped children with the Edmond Public Schools and cook for the Edmond Public School District.

Nancy McKinnis, Education Assistant

Nancy McKinnis, Education Assistant

Nancy McKinnis

Email: nancy@oba.com
Phone Ext. #: 116

Originally from Lawton, Nancy McKinnis moved to Edmond in 1981. After being a stay-at-home mom for 10 years she re-entered the workplace and worked for Southwestern Bell Telephone for 11 years. She then entered the OKC-Edmond Metro Real Estate profession.

She joined the OBA in the summer of 1995 in the Education Department, and has also worked in the Government Relations Department. McKinnis has been actively involved in the Board of Realtors, Edmond Chamber of Commerce, Red Cross, Edmond Arts and Humanities Council, Chopin Society of Mid-America, and New Covenant United Methodist Church in Edmond.  She is currently involved at NC as a Stephen Minister, Outreach Team and Celebration Team member, and also involved in the Pioneer Country Emmaus Community.

Fraud Prevention

Sharon Lewis, Vice President/Fraud Division

Sharon Lewis, Vice President/Fraud Division

Email: sharon@oba.com
Phone Ext. #: 101

Sharon Lewis joined the OBA in February 2024.

Legal and Compliance

Mary Beth Guard, OBA Compliance Team

Mary Beth Guard, OBA Compliance Team

Mary Beth GuardEmail: compliance@oba.com

Mary Beth Guard is executive editor of BankersOnline.com and CEO of Glia Group, Inc.. In a career spanning more than two and a half decades, she has gained a national reputation as a banking attorney, speaker, writer and Internet expert.

Prior to her work with Glia Group, Inc. and BankersOnline.com, Mary Beth served as EVP/Specialized Services for Thomson Financial Publishing, EVP/General Counsel/COO for the Oklahoma Bankers Association, and general counsel for the Oklahoma State Banking Department. Mary Beth continues to maintain a heavy speaking schedule. In addition to her speeches, she has also entertained audiences nationwide with magic performances and is an active member of the Society of American Magicians.

Pauli Loeffler, OBA Compliance Team

Pauli Loeffler, OBA Compliance Team

Pauli LoefflerEmail: compliance@oba.com

Pauli Loeffler attended the University of Oklahoma, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1979, and a Juris Doctorate in 1982. While in law school, Pauli was a member of Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity, served as the editor-in-chief of the weekly Law School News Letter and interned for the Cleveland County District Attorney’s Office. Following graduation from law school, Loeffler joined the family law firm of Loeffler & Allen where her practice emphasized title examination for title insurance, contracts and probate.

In January 1988, Pauli became the estate administrator for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma. After moving to Edmond, Okla., in 1989, she joined the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in its Oklahoma City Field Office as a staff attorney in the bankruptcy section. From June 2004 until January 2011, Pauli served as assistant general counsel for the Oklahoma Bankers Association responding to a multitude of legal and compliance questions from the Association’s 250 member banks. Pauli is general counsel for Bankersonline.

John Burnett, OBA Compliance Team

John Burnett, OBA Compliance Team

John Burnett

Email: compliance@oba.com

John Burnett is a 1979 alumnus of the ABA National Compliance School, and served on its faculty for several years. He graduated with honors with the Class of 1990 from ABA’s Stonier Graduate School of Banking, and is also a graduate of the BAI and the Massachusetts Banker Association Schools of Banking.

John began his banking career in high school when he started as a teller at a $15 million bank that didn’t have account numbers for its checking accounts (he says they actually filed by signature!) He joined Cape Cod Bank and Trust Company in 1971 and assumed the position of Compliance Officer in 1976. He also served as corporate secretary and secretary of CCBT’s Board of Directors, as well as Clerk of the bank’s holding company.

John joined Glia Group, Inc., and became a part of the BankersOnline.com team in June 2004. He is Executive Editor.

Andy Zavoina, OBA Compliance Team

Andy Zavoina, OBA Compliance Team

Email: compliance@oba.com

Andy ZavoinaAndy Zavoina, CRCM, is an executive vice president with the Glia Group, Inc., best known for its involvement with BankersOnline.com. He joined Glia and BOL in 2003.

Zavoina has been in finance and banking for 29 years. More than 20 years were with a holding company with two Central Texas community banks that had $534 million in assets, 89 branches spanning Texas and nearly 500 ATMs. After starting in loan workouts, Zavoina has been a consumer, commercial and real estate lender and managed those departments as well as being the banks’ first Webmaster. He was responsible for compliance -management, -auditing, and -training for both banks.

Member/Government Relations

Megan McGuire, Vice President/Government & Member Relations

Megan McGuire, Vice President/Government & Member Relations

Megan McGuireEmail: megan@oba.com
Phone Ext. #: 109

Megan joined the OBA in May 2015. A native of Ardmore, she graduated from Oklahoma State University in 2008. Prior to joining the OBA, Megan worked as in events in both corporate and nonprofit sectors. Outside of work, she enjoys running, cooking, traveling and OSU sporting events. Megan has spent at least one day in each of the 48 continental states and plans to add Alaska and Hawaii to her list in the near future.

OBA Services Company

Thi Pham, Vendor Relations & Product Coordinator

Thi Pham, Vendor Relations & Product Coordinator

Thi PhamEmail: thi@oba.com
Phone Ext. #: 124

Thi Pham (pronounced Tea) joined the OBA in March 2017. Born and raised in Edmond, she graduated from UCO in 2005 with a bachelors in business. She worked as a teller at Bank of America then worked with OBA strategic member American Bank Systems for a few years. After finishing college, she began working at Dell Financial Services, becoming a top financial sales manager of the quarter several years in a row across three sites of Oklahoma City, Austin and Nashville, earning a President’s Club trip win. She decided to settle down and have a family of three while helping her friend open up three high-end, fast-paced salons with her Oklahoma esthetician license. After many years, she missed the financial industry and decided OBA was the place to succeed and grow as a young banking individual, helping make bankers better! Outside of work, Thi loves to spend time with her husband Martin, family, friends and traveling. She also volunteers at her children’s school, The Catholic School of St. Eugene, in Oklahoma City.

Support Staff

Niki Brown, Receptionist

Niki Brown, Receptionist

Email: niki@oba.com
Phone Ext. #: 100

Niki joined the OBA in May 2021. Prior to joining the OBA, Niki was the Court Clerk for the Town of Luther where she resides. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her fiancé on their five acres, with their nearly 50 animals including dogs, horses, chickens, turkeys, and one cockatiel.

Sheila Wyatt, Database Administrator

Sheila Wyatt, Database Administrator

Email: sheila@oba.com
Phone Ext. #: 104

Sheila joined the OBA family in 2016 and focuses on maintaining the OBA database. Outside of work, she enjoys volunteering with various charitable organizations to help our community. She also likes to get out and explore the Oklahoma small towns and highways on two wheels when the weather is right!

Joan Anderson, Special Projects Manager

Joan Anderson, Special Projects Manager

Email: joan@oba.com
Phone Ext. #: 127

Joan began working part-time for the OBA in the summer of 2011 while on break from her full-time job as Computer Teacher at Edmond North High School and continued that pattern for the following 10 summers. She retired from education in May 2021 and began full-time with the OBA in August 2022. Joan enjoys traveling and spending time with family and friends.