Northrim Bank President and COO Joe Schierhorn announced on Jan. 22 the promotion of Veronica Pillans, AVP loan officer – Small Business Center, and the hiring of Bruce Tretzen, VP relationship manager- Northrim Funding Services.
Pillans has over 10 years banking and lending experience. She began her banking career at First National Bank Alaska in 2005 and joined the Northrim team in 2012. A lifelong Alaskan, Pillans holds a small business degree from the University of Alaska Anchorage and completed the banking and finance program through American Bankers Association in 2015. She is a regular volunteer at Covenant House and teaches financial literacy to the youth.
Tretzen joins the Northrim Funding Services team with 17 years of commercial lending experience, nine of which in the asset based lending industry. He is a former business owner who studied accounting and business at Edmonds College and the University of Washington. Tretzen is a volunteer mentor and judge for the Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA) that teaches high school students about business, marketing, management, entrepreneurship and finance.
