Hires

Stacie Mason has accepted the role of senior vice president and chief financial officer of Stormont Vail Health. Mason will begin her new duties Feb. 27. She currently is vice president of hospital finance at INTEGRIS Health, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, which is Oklahoma’s largest health system. She has provided financial oversight for 11 INTEGRIS Health hospitals ranging from rural to metropolitan locations. Prior to joining INTEGRIS in 2017, Mason served in a chief financial officer role within two other Oklahoma health care organizations — Saint Francis Health System, Tulsa, and Southwestern Memorial Hospital, Weatherford, Okla. Mason has a bachelor’s degree in health administration and a master’s degree in business administration from Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, Okla., and an accounting degree from Oklahoma State University, Tulsa. Peg Burnette, Stormont Vail’s current senior vice president and chief financial officer, announced last fall that she would retire in 2023. Burnette returned to her Topeka roots in April 2021 when she joined Stormont Vail after her retirement from Denver Health and Hospital Authority after nearly 25 years of service as a finance executive, including 16 years as the organization’s CFO.

Promotions

Envista Credit Union announced that Ashley Esquibel has become its new chief administrative officer and Christina Schmitt its chief operations officer. With more than 18 years of experience at Envista, Esquibel most recently served as vice president of human resources. Under Esquibel’s leadership, Envista has grown by more than 60 positions in the past five years and 52 percent of employees have been promoted since their first day with the company. In addition to her continued management of human resources, Esquibel will now oversee Envista’s member experience, marketing, and communications strategies. Esquibel is an active board member for the Topeka Society for Human Resource Management, is part of Leadership Greater Topeka Class of 2021 and was recently recognized as a Topeka “20 under 40” 2022 honoree. With more than 17 years of experience, Schmitt was most recently Envista’s vice president of operations. She has guided Envista through multiple technology upgrades and implementations and led Envista’s branches through the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure accessibility and safety for our members and staff. Moving forward, Schmitt will be responsible for technology, software, and operational efficiency. Schmitt is a Board Trustee for the Topeka Credit Union Foundation and was a 2020 YWCA Women of Excellence nominee.

Grants

The Office of the State Bank Commissioner has awarded $160,286 in grant funds to eight Kansas organizations to provide financial literacy education throughout the state. Each year, funds are provided to organizations that provide financial literacy to Kansas consumers. The grant process is competitive, and recipients must provide measurable results. Consumer education funds come from fines and settlements with companies within the regulatory jurisdiction of the Consumer and Mortgage Lending Division of the OSBC; therefore, available grant funds can fluctuate from year to year. This year, the OSBC was able to award a total of $160,286 to eight organizations. The recipients are Consumer Credit Counseling Service Inc. (Salina), Housing and Credit Counseling Inc. (Topeka), Kansas Council on Economic Education (Wichita), The Pando Initiative Inc. (Wichita), Jobs for America’s Graduates-Kansas (JAG-K) (Topeka), Mirror Inc. (Newton), USD 350 St. John Jr/Sr High (St. John) and Kansas Bankers Educational Foundation (Topeka).

Honors

Matt Koupal, senior vice president, chief legal and ethics officer, corporate secretary at FHLBank Topeka has been selected to participate in the Kansas Bankers Association’s 2023 Bank Leaders of Kansas program. Now in its 17th year, the BLOK program is a statewide leadership development program designed to build participants’ leadership skills and knowledge of the banking industry. As one of 21 members of the 2023 BLOK class, Koupal will begin a series of four training sessions in February. Koupal joined FHLBank Topeka while attending law school at Washburn University in 2008 and has held a variety of legal and compliance positions at FHLBank Topeka during his tenure. He was promoted to his current position in October 2021. Koupal has a bachelor of arts in political science from Southern Methodist University and received his law degree from Washburn University School of Law. He is also a graduate of the Graduate School of Banking at Colorado.

Topeka-area hirings, promotions, retirements and other announcements can be emailed to iyb@cjonline.com.

This article originally appeared on Topeka Capital-Journal: It's Your Business has Stormont Vail, Envista Credit Union, FHLBank