Earl McVicker
CEO
Central Financial Corporation

Earl McVicker is Chairman, President and CEO of Central Financial Corporation and its subsidiary, Central Bank and Trust Co. of Hutchinson, Kansas. Central Financial Corporation is a private venture capital fund and bank holding company.

Mr. McVicker began his banking career in 1971, after his graduation from Kansas State University. He has been a bank President and CEO since 1983, and Chairman and majority owner since 1992. McVicker has been instrumental in chartering numerous new community banks in Kansas, Texas, Nevada, Missouri, Florida, Colorado and Arizona. He has served as Chairman of four different community banks in three states, and has served as a director or advisory director of eleven community banks in six states. Mr. McVicker currently serves on the Board of Community First National Bank in Manhattan, Kansas.

In 2007 Mr. McVicker was Chairman of the American Bankers Association, the largest world-wide financial trade association. The ABA represents the two million U.S. employees of the banking industry and its members hold 96% of the $11 trillion in banking assets in the U.S. The ABA is also the secretariat for two international financial associations. He served as Chairman of the ABA Community Bankers Council in 2002, and has served on the Board, and chaired several ABA committees. Mr. McVicker is also past President and Chairman of the Kansas Bankers Association.

McVicker was President of the Kansas State University Alumni Association in 1989, and currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Kansas State University Foundation.

McVicker holds a B.S. from Kansas State University, and a graduate degree in banking from the University of Colorado. He is a native of Ness County, Kansas and is still actively involved in the family farming and ranching operation.

Earl and his wife, Molly, have three adult children.