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It was late 2022, and Shan Hanes’ future looked bright. The CEO of Heartland Tri-State Bank, a $139 million agricultural bank in tiny Elkhart, Kansas, was a trusted pillar of the community, known for helping customers during hard times, manning the sideline chain gang at high school football games and generating healthy returns for local shareholders. “Shan was the picture-perfect image of a guy you’d want running your small-town bank,” says Jim Tucker, an Elkhart farmer and bank board member. “He mowed yards and coached sports teams. Most everybody liked him.” Ambitious and with a knack for explaining farm country…
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WRITTEN BY
John Engen
Contributing Writer
John Engen is a contributing writer for Bank Director. He has more than 30 years of experience as a business journalist, writing for a variety of newspapers and magazines, and was a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press. He graduated with a degree in economics and international relations from the University of Minnesota and did his post-graduate work in Asian studies at the University of Hawai’i.