LAFAYETTE, La., Oct. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Home Bancorp,
Inc. (Nasdaq: "HBCP") (the "Company"), the parent company for
Home Bank (www.home24bank.com), a Federally chartered savings bank
headquartered in Lafayette,
Louisiana (the "Bank"), is pleased to announce the addition
of veteran banker Scott Ridley to
its executive management team. Ridley will serve as Chief
Banking Officer. The Company is also pleased to announce that
current executive Darren Guidry has
moved into the Chief Credit Officer role.
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Ridley joins Home Bank with over 20 years of banking industry
experience, most of which was with Hibernia/Capital One, where he
led high-performance teams of commercial and retail bankers across
Louisiana, including the markets
served by Home Bank. He holds a finance degree from the
University of New Orleans and is a
graduate of the Southwest Graduate School of Banking at Southern
Methodist University. An active member of the community,
Ridley has served many non-profit organizations through Board of
Director service, including the Istrouma Area Council of the Boy
Scouts of America, Teach for America - South Louisiana, Junior Achievement of
Greater Baton Rouge and Acadiana
(former Board Chairman) and was a founding Board member of the
Greater Baton Rouge Community Clinic.
"Scott brings to us a proven track record of high performance in
business development, client management and loan administration,"
said John W. Bordelon, President and
Chief Executive Officer of the Company and the Bank. "He is a
forward-thinking leader who will play an integral role in
continuing to grow and improve our company."
Guidry has served as the Company's Chief Lending Officer since
1993. He has played a key role in the development of Home
Bank's credit culture, expansion into new markets and employee
recruitment. His focus as Chief Credit Officer will be on
enhancing commercial and retail credit underwriting, analysis and
monitoring across the organization. He will continue to be
responsible for the mortgage lending, retail brokerage and special
assets functions of the company. Guidry has a bachelor's
degree in finance and a master's degree in business administration
from the University of
Louisiana-Lafayette. He has served as president of the
University of Louisiana-Lafayette
Alumni Association and is a member of the Development Committee of
Habitat for Humanity (Lafayette).
"Given our growth over the past five years, as well as our
expectations for our future, we are committed to continually
investing in our credit administration processes," said Mr.
Bordelon. "Darren's extensive credit background will help us
ensure that our credit culture remains strong as we continue our
growth."
This news release contains certain forward‑looking
statements. Forward‑looking statements can be identified by the
fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current
facts. They often include the words "believe," "expect,"
"anticipate," "intend," "plan," "estimate" or words of similar
meaning, or future or conditional verbs such as "will," "would,"
"should," "could" or "may."
Forward‑looking statements, by their nature, are subject to
risks and uncertainties. A number of factors ‑ many of which
are beyond our control ‑ could cause actual conditions, events or
results to differ significantly from those described in the
forward‑looking statements. Home Bancorp's Annual Report on
Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
2012, describes some of these factors, including risk
elements in the loan portfolio, the level of the allowance for
losses on loans, risks of our growth strategy, geographic
concentration of our business, dependence on our management team,
risks of market rates of interest and of regulation on our business
and risks of competition. Forward‑looking statements speak only as
of the date they are made. We do not undertake to update
forward‑looking statements to reflect circumstances or events that
occur after the date the forward‑looking statements are made or to
reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
SOURCE Home Bancorp, Inc.