Jamie R. Shinabarger is CEO and director of Springs Valley Bank & Trust Company, Jasper, as well as its holding company, SVB&T Corporation.
He has nearly 45 years of financial services experience serving with three financial institutions over that span. Before joining Springs Valley in 2008, Shinabarger was president and CEO of Hicksville Building, Loan & Savings Bank in Ohio, where he spent the bulk of his career (1986-2007) learning the core disciplines of banking: bank administration, lending, collections, deposits, IRAs, compliance and marketing. Prior to that, Shinabarger began his career in 1980 as an agricultural loan officer and appraiser with the Federal Land Bank of Bryan, Ohio, then served as a loan asset specialist with the consolidated Farm Credit Services of Defiance, Ohio (1980-1986).
Shinabarger has served on the boards and executive committees of Dubois Strong (Dubois County local economic development organization) and Radius Indiana (regional eight-county Southern Indiana economic development organization) and is an active member of the Kiwanis Club of Jasper and Junior Achievement. Additionally, he is a member of The Bank CEO Network and serves on the executive committee of Friends of Traditional Banking, a national bipartisan super PAC committed to advocating for bank-friendly candidates in key senate races.
Shinabarger earned a bachelor’s degree from Taylor University, an MBA from Indiana Wesleyan University and a certification of completion in executive education from the Ohio State College of Business. He is a member of the Indiana Bankers Association 40 Year Club and received the prestigious Sagamore of the Wabash from Gov. Eric J. Holcomb in 2023.
Jamie and his wife, Catherine, recently moved to 20 acres near Grandview, where they enjoy the great outdoors and spending time with their children and grandchildren.