Leadership Team

Kent joined First Bank Kansas in 1999 and loves to work with the team he helped build. Kent is engaged in strategic planning and execution, risk management, business development, talent acquisition and retention, and is also heavily involved in the Salina community and in the region. His passion helped to create, and continues to nurture, a corporate personality (culture) that is hungry, humble and smart, where colleagues thrive and which results in customers who are delighted. Communication is very important but is also a challenge with different generations working together across several communities. The payoff is seeing teammates grow with the organization along with the building of relationships with customers who enjoy First Bank Kansas’ genuine approach to throw back customer service that strives to deliver an exceptional experience.

Faith and family are important to Kent and wife Marcy. They have discovered that being grandparents is not overrated. With their son’s family in Alaska, and their daughter’s family in Colorado, vacations often revolve around the whole families’ love for the great outdoors. They concur with the late John Muir who believed that wilderness is a necessity in our over-civilized society and who wrote, “And into the woods I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.”

Angela Eilrich (Angie) began her banking career with First Bank Kansas in 1981. Over the years, she has held various positions at the bank in the areas of teller operations, bookkeeping, compliance, audit, human resources, marketing, information technology, product development, project management and training. Today as a Board Member, Chief Operations Officer and Board Secretary,  Angie is privileged to work with all areas of the bank.  Angie completed the Graduate School of Banking at Colorado in 2006. Her primary goal is to develop competent and professional employees that can sustain the bank for years to come! Angie especially enjoys Project Management because she loves to organize and help the team succeed.   

When not at First Bank Kansas, Angie enjoys spending time with her husband, Kevin, working on church projects, traveling and spending time with their large and very close extended family. One thing you won’t find her doing is spending much time in the rugged outdoors; she’s a city girl who thinks “no room service” is roughing it!

Curt graduated in 1986 from Kansas State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Agriculture. During this time, he has forged many long-term relationships with his customers, friends, and neighbors while helping them to achieve their financial goals. He started his career as a loan officer in Hiawatha, Kansas, and later moved to McPherson as an Ag Lender. He joined First Bank Kansas in 1992 as Ellsworth's Branch Manager and Lender. Over his 31 years with First Bank Kansas, Curt has been instrumental in the bank's growth in Ellsworth and surrounding communities. He has held several positions within First Bank Kansas, advancing to his current role as the Chief Lending Officer.

Curt's creative style of lending and always looking for "Ways to Say Yes" has contributed to both his and his customer's success. He very much enjoys working with both small and large customers. Today he continues to see customers and spends a great deal of his time mentoring and growing the lending department of First Bank Kansas. Curt enjoys being involved in the Community, especially anything to do with Economic Growth. Curt, however, is not a typical banker as he does not play golf but, in his spare time, enjoys spending time with his wife and family on their farm in rural Ellsworth. He also enjoys traveling, reading, and currently learning to play Pickleball.