Michael E. Grove, President & CEO

Welcome to Bank of the Rockies On-Line! We are the oldest bank in Montana and take pride in our tradition of service. We are, and will remain, a locally owned and managed bank who believes in providing personalized service to our customers. Personalized service means convenient locations, local decision making, and banking products that are based on the needs of our customers.

Our main office is in White Sulphur Springs. We enjoy a rock solid reputation as a top rated community bank with a friendly small town approach to helping with all of your financial needs. As you explore our site, you will find we have a wide range of products and services to meet the needs of our youngest savers up to very sophisticated corporate customers. You will learn a lot about all of the various loan products we offer. You can use our financial calculators to find out how much you can afford when shopping for a new home or car. Also, check out the latest news and press releases on our What's New page.

You won't want to miss our Kid's Corner page with Dollar the Dragon. Dollar can help your children learn about saving as well as having many fun and interesting games to play. Our bank is an avid supporter of "America's Promise". We are a "Bank of Promise".

We want to hear from you! Please e-mail us with your questions and comments.

We believe an organization built on a foundation of integrity, consistency, dedication and respect for the client, the members of the organization and the public in general has to prevail. Bank of the Rockies shall be managed at the highest levels of legal, ethical, and moral conduct.

We believe Bank of the Rockies can best serve its clients, employees, community and stockholders by being a consistently profitable enterprise while continuing to expand its targeted market area. Profitability and return on stockholders equity will continue to be the banks driving force.

We believe that the success of the organization is dependent upon the quality of management and the performance of its staff. Bank of the Rockies shall utilize a professional management system based upon leadership, developing people, building a formalized sales culture, organizing and controlling.

We believe that we can increase the overall efficiency of the bank by continually emphasizing the necessary of "working smarter" and developing a program called "CIA", or caught in the act, whereby, we reward employees for implementation of new efficiencies.

Bank of the Rockies will continue to be the progressive premier provider of financial services in our market area. Our organization will focus on fulfilling the financial needs of the markets we serve and may include a wider range of service-oriented products than we presently provide, with some of those possibly being internet banking, financial planning, and cash management products for our business customers.

We will continue to distinguish ourselves from our competition by our commitment to excellence in the markets we serve. It continues to be critical to our success that we remain identified as a "Community Bank", and become professional sales people.

Through necessity, we will operate more efficiently than we do today, using technology and other alternative methods to meet the needs of our customers. WE continue to believe that Bank of the Rockies will establish long-term relationships by continually responding to the ever-changing customer requirements.

In order to remain competitive and profitable, we will identify the niches that provide the best opportunity for return in the markets we serve, and concentrate on becoming marketing oriented. We believe that Bank of the Rockies shall continue to deliver banking services that support and benefit our customers. We will continue to evaluate and refine our products and services and provide sales and marketing training to the Bank staff in order to meet the financial needs of our customers.

The growth will be hard work, requiring all of our skills as bankers. In order to meet these challenges, we will encourage an ever efficient team environment that brings new thoughts to help drive performance. Over the next five years, our bank will have a participatory management environment that will challenge our leaders to be innovative and to assume responsibility. Our staff will be well compensated for their efforts through performance based compensation plans. This vision will assist management and staff in addressing the threats of a consolidating industry and allow us to take pride in our accomplishments and be recognized as truly exceptional bankers.

The mission of Bank of the Rockies supports the financial success of families, farms, ranches, small and emerging businesses, while achieving a competitive return for it's shareholders and stakeholders. We believe that all stakeholders, including stockholders, employees, customers, and the communities we serve, should enjoy equitable benefits from the success of Bank of the Rockies.

Bank of the Rockies is a professionally managed, market driven, financial service company dedicated to maximizing stockholder value, by providing a complete range of financial services to present and former residents of the counties we serve, regardless of economic level.

Customers

The customers should always come first at Bank of the Rockies. Our customers needs and requests will be addressed through listening, being reactive and also pro-active. Products and services will be developed in response to the needs of the customers and the community and will be provided on a fair and equitable basis. This enables us to be a part of our customers' and communities' long-term growth and success.

Employees

Our mission is a commitment to excellence. An emphasis is placed on sales and service cultures to enable employees to exceed customer expectations. This is accomplished by providing employees with sales and marketing training, educational opportunities and technological advances, as well as a comfortable and secure working environment. In addition, the bank has implemented a formalized customer service staff-training program.

Shareholders

The bank will strive to achieve strong, consistent earnings, and maintain superior financial strength. The key to our success is controlling overhead, maximizing net-interest income and non-interest income, and maintaining a strong focus on asset quality consistent with stable growth.

Michael E. Grove, President & CEO
Dan Fenno, CFO
Linda Armstrong, VP of Office Administration
Chris K. Hedrich, SVP, Loan Quality, Administration and Compliance
Mike Holmberg, Vice President

Michael E. Grove, Chairman of the Board
Chris K. Hedrich, Secretary
Dirk S. Adams, Director
Sky Anderson Director
David Brewer Director
Lawrence E. Johnston Director
John V. Potter, Jr. Director

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