Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> March 15, 2004

GORDON DYOTT – MONROE BANCORP (MORE)

GORDON M. DYOTT is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Monroe Bancorp. In his 29 years of community banking experience, Mr. Dyott has held executive leadership positions in marketing, retail services and financial management, and has picked up skills in several other areas of banking along the way. Starting in 1975 as a retail management trainee, Mr. Dyott worked his way up through marketing research and corporate services, to finally become a product development officer at Girard Bank in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. With a brief stint in commercial marketing at First Bank of Allentown in the early 1980s, he then moved to Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, in Delaware, where he directed the marketing function, and was promoted to Executive Vice President, where he held responsibility for the consumer services and bank operations of the organization until 1996 when he joined Monroe Bank, in Bloomington, Indiana. Now, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Monroe Bank, Mr. Dyott is among the team of managers responsible for leading the 111-year-old state bank through a successful expansion into attractive markets north of the company's headquarters. Mr. Dyott obtained a BS in Marketing from Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, and an MBA in Finance from Temple University in Philadelphia. He is actively involved in the Bloomington community, from volunteering to teach for Junior Achievement or as Chairman of the local Boy Scouts Council, to serving as a Director on the Board of the Greater Bloomington Chamber of Commerce and Chairman of the Community Alliance for Life Long Learning. Profile
TWST: Please start with a historical sketch of the bank and a picture of

things you are doing now.

Mr. Dyott: Monroe Bancorp is a holding company which owns a single bank,

Monroe Bank,