Mountain West Bank announces new CEO

COEUR d’ALENE — Scott Anderson has joined Mountain West Bank as its new chief executive officer. He will succeed the bank’s current CEO, Russ Porter, who will retire this coming spring.

Anderson was previously with North Cascades Bank, a division of Glacier Bancorp, serving as CEO for the Chelan, Wash.-based institution since 2004. His banking career started in Eugene, Ore., in 1989 as a lender with Siuslaw Valley Bank. While in Eugene, he spent 10 years with Pacific Continental Bank in various lending and credit portfolio management roles. Anderson joined North Cascades National Bank in 2002 as chief credit officer.

Porter says Mountain West Bank will be in great hands.

“We are thrilled to welcome Scott to the bank,” he says. “His experience both as a community banker and with the Glacier Bank family is of tremendous value.”

Anderson graduated from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota with a bachelor’s degree in Banking and Finance. He also graduated from the Pacific Coast Banking School at the University of Washington.

Anderson and his wife, Jennifer, are excited about the move to Coeur d’Alene.

“We’re leaving a great bank and a beautiful place to live and joining a great bank and moving to another beautiful part of the Northwest,” Anderson says.

Mountain West Bank was founded in Coeur d’Alene in 1993. The bank offers personal and commercial financial services. In addition to its Coeur d’Alene headquarters, Mountain West Bank operates 23 branches, financial service centers, and lending centers throughout Idaho, Washington, and Utah. It is a division of Montana-based Glacier Bancorp Inc.