Carter Bank & Trust names three executives

Published June 21, 2017 by Robert Powell, III

Martinsville-based Carter Bank & Trust has hired three executives to serve as chief financial officer, chief strategy officer and chief information officer.

Wendy S. Bell will become the bank’s CFO on July 24. She has served as the senior vice president and senior finance officer of First Commonwealth Financial Corp. in Indiana, Pa., since 2010.

Bradford N. Langs joined the bank as chief strategy officer on June 19. He was chief risk officer, chief credit officer and treasurer of CoastalStates Bank in Hilton Head, S.C.

Matthew M. Speare will become chief information officer on July 3. Speare comes to the bank from Regions Bank in Birmingham, Ala., where he has served as executive vice president and chief information officer since 2013.