The Team Providing You With Extraordinary Service
Meet Our Personal Bankers
Patty Larson
Patty has over 3 years of experience in banking and her favorite part of being a personal banker is getting to know her customers and providing service with a smile.
Christin Geislinger
Christin enjoys helping customers open new accounts, online banking setup and assisting with all of their banking needs.
Julie Heying
Julie has been with Granite Bank as a Teller & Customer Service Representative. She enjoys working with our customers and helping them with all their banking needs.
Meet Our Lenders
Jim Eiynck, NMLS# 412732
Jim is a licensed MN Real Estate Broker and has 20+ years experience in everything from Building & Construction, to Drafting & Estimating Degrees in his background.
Bob Lewellyn
Bob has more than 13 years of experience providing financing solutions to people and businesses in the local area.
Jacob Reiter
Jacob leads the bank’s lending department where he’s worked extensively with small business owners, investors and entrepreneurs on creative financing solutions.
Amy Statz, NMLS# 412733
Amy has 15 years of Mortgage Lending experience and enjoys working with borrowers who want to purchase a home, refinance, build or remodel.
Todd Erickson
Todd has an extremely broad background in business lending that has given him over 39 years of experience in banking.
Mike Schmid
Mike has over 30 years experience in lending and specializes in credit lines, equipment loans, commercial mortgages and SBA loans.
Gary Kiess
Gary has 15-years of banking experience, with a background in several areas including commercial real estate, construction, small business financing, as well as financing under the SBA and USDA programs.
Meet Our Insurance Agents
Pat Donlin
Pat has expertise in providing Property, Casualty, and Life insurance products to customers. Pat grew up in St. Cloud and graduated from St. Cloud State University before he moved to Cold Spring, where he's lived for 21 years.
Meet Our Financial Advisers
Jeff Benda
Jeff has 20+ years of experience and a broad background in the investment and insurance industry. He looks forward to working with individuals, families, and businesses to plan their short-term or long-term financial goals, and help them achieve success.
Meet Our Support Team
Mel Braunberger
Mel has been with the bank for 20 years and views each day as an opportunity to provide each customer with a positive experience at Granite Bank!
Carol Stang
Carol enjoys working at Granite Bank and being able to help customers with their banking and mortgage needs.
Pam Schackmann
Pam has been a bookkeeper at Granite Bank for 13 years and enjoys working with customers to help make their banking needs easier to understand.
Brenda Widmer
Brenda has been in the banking business for 22 years and enjoys working in a small town bank where customers are on a first name basis.
Brenda Koshiol
Brenda has been at Granite Bank for 6 years and enjoys working with people, she’ll go above and beyond to give our customers a positive banking experience.
Jeanne Elfering
Jeanne has over 30 years of banking experience and specializes in HSAs, IRAs and implementing digital cash management solutions. She is now the Compliance Officer in Cold Spring.
Rachel Flint
Rachel has been working at Granite Bank for 4 years as an Insurance Agent, Credit Analyst, and our Digital Operations Manager.
Russ Kalthoff
Russ is new to the Granite Bank teller team. He is looking forward to meeting more people and help you on your financial needs.
Luke Reiter
Luke oversees the retail and operations side of the bank where he is responsible for managing several facets of the Bank.
Gerald (Jerry) Reiter
Jerry has over 30 years of commercial and ag lending and over 25 years of bank management, and that’s where he finds himself today as the President and CEO.