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Sponsored by: Mascoma Bank
Updated: November 15, 2022

Meet Mascoma’s Maine Team

Mascoma’s Maine Team: Dave Carter, Tad Atwell, Garrett White, Amberlynn Esperanza, Andrew Cook, Kaleigh Deering, Ira Camp and Todd Bachelder


Dave Carter — SVP, Private Banking Relationship Manager

Q: What attracted you to the Bank?
The ability to work for a bank that cares as much about my clients as I do.

Q: What is unique about Mascoma Private Banking?
We offer concierge style banking for Professionals — one point of contact for both commercial and personal banking needs.

Q: What are you passionate about personally and/or professionally?
Broadening access to the arts.


Tad Atwell — Chief Operating Officer of Mascoma Community Development & SVP at Mascoma Bank

Q: What is unique about the Bank relative to the competition?
The vast majority of community banks do not have the in-house tax credit expertise and experience that we do.

Q: Who is your ideal client?
Experienced and sophisticated real estate developers with an interest in accessing federal and state tax credit programs to help complete or subsidize their respective project capital stacks.

Q: When you aren’t working, how do you like to spend your time?
Spending time with my daughter, running, and hiking.


Garrett White — Real Estate Management Analyst

Q: What attracted you to the Bank?
Their unwavering focus on and commitment to customers and employees alike.

Q: What is unique about Mascoma?
Mascoma is innovative, but also grounded and genuine. We have a uniquely driven, focused, and effective workforce across the organization.

Q: When you aren’t working, how do you like to spend your time?
Embracing life in Southern Maine!


Amberlynn Esperanza — AVP, Commercial Lending Development Officer

Q: What attracted you to the Bank?
Working for an employer that gives back to the community, and involves employees in its philanthropic efforts.

Q: What do you think people should know about the Bank?
Mascoma doesn’t feel like a typical bank. Our organization is like family, and together we lift and empower one another to do good in this world. We also have amazing technology!

Q: What are you passionate about personally and/or professionally?
Mentoring other young professionals.


Andrew Cook — SVP, Commercial lender

Q: What attracted you to the Bank?
A: The alignment of Mascoma’s B Corp values and my personal values. I also have an entrepreneurial nature, so joining a bank that is new to the Maine market had appeal.

Q: What are you passionate about personally and/or professionally?
Bettering the lives of youth in Maine.


Kaleigh Deering — VP, Mortgage Loan Officer

Q: What attracted you to the Bank?
As a Certified B-Corp, Mascoma’s core values really resonated with me. Doing good in the communities we serve is so important.

Q: What is unique about Mascoma?
Mascoma’s purpose - to deliver exceptional customer service while improving our community and customers lives - isn’t just something we say. It is embodied in every lending decision, in our charitable giving, and in the well-being of our employees.

Q: When you aren’t working, how do you like to spend your time?
Spending time with my family skiing in the winter and lake activities in the summer.


Ira Camp — VP, Mortgage Loan Officer

 

Q: What attracted you to the Bank?
The community feel, social responsibility, and just how down to earth everyone is at the Bank.

Q: What is unique about the Bank relative to the competition?
Mascoma is focused on making lending decisions based on common sense.

Q: Who is your ideal client?
Just about everyone! 1st time homebuyers, construction loans, land loans, primary residences, 2nd homes, investment properties, seasonal properties, and of course conventional mortgages.


Todd Bachelder — SVP & Maine Market Leader

Q: What is your role at the Bank?
I joined Mascoma Bank in 2018 to open the Bank’s Portland Maine office, and to build out the Bank’s Maine loan portfolio and Maine team.

Q: What attracted you to the Bank?
The financing tools available through the Bank’s subsidiary, Mascoma Community Development, the Bank’s B Corp. Certification, and the fact that Mascoma’s management team is rethinking what it means to be a community bank in the 21st century.

Q: What are you passionate about personally and/or professionally?
Finding ways in which business can be used to better address the societal and environmental challenges we face.