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Bank Officers | Board of Directors | Advisory Board
Bank Officers
Jim Sturgeon, Chief Executive Officer
Jim Sturgeon is Chief Executive Officer, President and Chief Lending Officer of Founders Bank. He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors.
With more than 30 years of experience in the banking industry, Jim has managed both community and chain banks. His in-depth knowledge of the Fort Bend market—gained over a multi-year period where he led the growth and development of two local financial institutions—was a driving force in the creation of Founders Bank.
Jim is a long-time resident of Sugar Land. He and his wife are active in the community, serving as members on various boards of non-profit groups that assist abused children and low-income families. He is also active in a number of civic organizations that contribute to the growth and quality of life in Fort Bend County.
A graduate of the University of Houston with a degree in finance, he also earned an MBA with an emphasis in accounting from Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
Shirley Knesek-Enloe, Executive Vice President
Shirley Knesek-Enloe is Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operations Officer of Founders Bank, in addition to serving on the Board of Directors.
Shirley has more than 30 years of experience in accounting and bank operations and more than 20 years of experience in interest risk analysis, budgeting and strategic planning. She was responsible for the financials and operations of two de novo banks in the past six years. Her most recent bank grew to four locations and $175 million in assets over a three-year period.
J. Michael Dinges, Executive Vice President
Mike Dinges is Executive Vice President of Founders Bank, with responsibility for managing client relationships in the commercial, real estate and construction markets. He also serves as an Advisory Director and on a number of key bank committees as part of the bank’s executive management team.
He is a long-time resident of Fort Bend, having grown up in the county and attended local schools. Members of his family have been raising cattle in Fort Bend since the 1940s.
Mike currently serves as president of Fort Bend County Levee Improvement District No. 19 and as a member of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo; the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association; the Greater Fort Bend Economic Development Council; the Katy Area Economic Development Council; and the Rose-Rich Chamber of Commerce.
He is also the former mayor of Fulshear, serving from 2000-2006, where he continues to live with his wife and young children.
Mike is a graduate of Stephen F. Austin University in Nacogdoches.
Shane Barbee, Executive Vice President
Shane Barbee is Executive Vice President of Founders Bank, with responsibility for commercial and real estate lending.
Barbee has more than a decade of experience in the Fort Bend market. He brings a strong background in commercial real estate and a belief in the importance of personal relationships to his position.
A 1996 graduate of Texas A&M University with a degree in agricultural economics, Barbee is active in a number of local non-profits, including the Rosenberg-Richmond Area Chamber of Commerce, where he serves on the board of directors, the Fort Bend Association of Retarded Citizens and the Fort Bend Chamber of Commerce. He also serves the community as a member of the board of directors of Fort Bend MUD 129.
Barbee currently lives in Richmond with his wife Mary Grace and two children.
Bob Kincaid, Senior Vice President
Bob Kincaid is Senior Vice President of Founders Bank with responsibility for commercial and industrial lending.
Kincaid has more than 25 years of experience in the bank industry, including almost 10 years of experience serving mid-sized and large businesses in the Katy/West Houston area. His background includes petrochemical, manufacturing, distribution, wholesale, service and healthcare lending, with significant experience in assisting owners and managers in all phases of their business lifecycle.
Kincaid is an active member in the Katy Area Chamber of Commerce. He also is a member of Kingsland Baptist Church of Katy and presently serves as chair of the church’s finance committee.
A graduate of Texas A&M University with a bachelor’s degree in finance, Kincaid is also certified in financial statements and cash flow analysis by the Risk Management Association and in SBA loan marketing, processing and servicing by the National Association of Government Guaranteed Lenders.
Board of Directors
OJ Armstrong
OJ Armstrong is a Managing Partner of The Crossmark Group Ltd., located in Sugar Land. The company provides construction management, design-build commercial construction and land development activities.
Throughout his career, OJ has owned and managed several service-related businesses operating in regulated market segments. He led a group for Allwaste to privatize utility infrastructure for large refineries and chemical manufacturing facilities with public and private financing structures. He has also been involved in mergers and acquisitions for publicly traded companies.
OJ is a long-time resident of Fort Bend County and a former member of the Board of Directors of First Community Bank, where he served on the Loan and Audit Committees.
He is a graduate of Texas Tech University and he earned his MBA from Houston Baptist University.
Dr. Rajesh Bindal
Dr. Rajesh Bindal serves as an Advisory Director to Founders Bank. He is a neurological surgeon in private practice in Sugar Land as well as a clinical assistant professor of neurosurgery at Baylor College of Medicine.
Rajesh is a member of the medical staffs at The Methodist Hospital and St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, both in Houston. He is a graduate of Northwestern University in Chicago, and he earned his medical degree from Northwestern University Medical School.
He has written extensively on advances in neurosurgical practices, especially in relation to brain tumors.
Rajesh is a resident of Sugar Land.
Billy Brown
Billy Brown is founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Blueline Manufacturing with operations in Lafayette, La., and Houston.
Blueline is an oilfield service manufacturing company with more than 100 employees. Blueline’s clients include many of the leaders in the oilfield service industry, including Schlumberger, Baker Hughes and BJ Services.
Prior to starting Blueline, Billy created oilfield service firm SPS, which he eventually sold to 3iii, a Scottish investment banking firm. He is also active in several real estate ventures in Louisiana and Houston.
Billy is a long-time resident of Sugar Land and he and his wife are very active in civic and charitable organizations. He is a graduate of Nicholls State University.
Dr. Juliet Breeze
Juliet Breeze is the President of Partners in Practice Inc. a healthcare development and management company that she founded.
In her role, she project-manages all aspects of design, construction and operations for hospitals, surgical centers and physician practice start-ups.
Juliet graduated from Northwestern University and earned her medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine. She completed residency training in Family Practice at Memorial Hermann Southwest, and previously served as Chief Executive Officer of Richmond Bone and Joint Clinic and President of Kingsland Surgery Center.
Kolbe Curtice
Kolbe Curtice is founder of Curtice Commercial Real Estate, a full-service commercial brokerage company that specializes in office and retail tenant representation and brokerage.
He previously worked for Weingarten Realty Investors, a NYSE real estate investment trust, where he was responsible for handling leasing and asset management efforts for shopping centers in Houston, Corpus Christi, San Antonio and Austin.
Kolbe is a long-time resident of Fort Bend County and is active in civic and charitable organizations as both a volunteer and board member. Most recently, he served as an Advisory Director at First Community Bank.
He is a graduate of the University of Houston.
Miles D. Harper III
Miles D. Harper III is a Partner in the firm of Gainer, Donnelly & Desroches CPA, where he is responsible for preparation and review of financial statements, analysis of management strategies, individual, business and estate tax planning and valuation and litigation support.
Prior to joining Gainer, Donnelly & Desroches, Miles worked for the public accounting firm of Price Waterhouse and was managing partner of a local Houston firm for eight years. He serves as Chairman of Bridgeway Mutual Funds and as a Director of Calvert Mutual Funds and the Depelchin Children’s Center in Houston.
David Moore
David Moore is the owner and President of Westport Homes, located in Stafford. Westport focuses on residential development in Houston’s finest master-planned communities, building more than 100 homes annually.
Westport has been recognized as Houston’s builder of the year four times, and has been recognized by the Texas Institute of Designers numerous times for its architecture.
David and his wife are long-time Fort Bend residents and are very active in charitable organizations throughout the county.
Rickey Williams
Rickey Williams serves as non-executive Chairman of the Board. He is President of HomeVestors-WFI Properties, Inc. located in Houston, which he founded in 2004.
Prior to starting his current company, Rickey was President and co-owner of Alpha Circuits Inc., a contract electronics manufacturer in Stafford. He sold part of his interest in the company in 2004 and remains on the Board of Directors.
From 1990 to 1996, Rickey was President of United Financial Resources, a firm that packaged and originated SBA loans. Over the past 15 years, he has served as an Advisory Director of Texas State Bank in Sugar Land and Business Development Board Member of Wells Fargo Bank, First Bank in Houston and Sunbelt National Bank-Houston.
Most recently, he was a Director of First Community Bank and served on the Loan and ALCO Committees. Rickey and his wife are long-time residents of Sugar Land and are very active in community, school and charitable organizations.
Dr. John Vanderzyl (Advisory Director)
Dr. John Vanderzyl serves as an Advisory Director to Founders Bank. He is a practicing physician and partner in Sugar Lakes Family Practice in Sugar Land, and was recently named one of the “Top Doctors in America” in a national survey of physicians.
John is a member of numerous professional organizations, including the Texas Medical Association, where he most recently served on the Council of Socioeconomics. He is also active in a number of Fort Bend charitable causes.
John is a native Houstonian who received his undergraduate degree from Texas A&M University. He earned his medical degree from the University of Texas Medical School in Houston. He is a Sugar Land resident and a member of the Board of Directors of St. Luke’s Hospital Sugar Land.
Jim Sturgeon
Jim Sturgeon is Chief Executive Officer, President and Chief Lending Officer of Founders Bank. He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors.
With more than 30 years of experience in the banking industry, Jim has managed both community and chain banks. His in-depth knowledge of the Fort Bend market – gained over a multi-year period where he led the growth and development of two local banks – was a driving force in the creation of Founders Bank.
Jim is a long-time resident of Sugar Land and he and his wife are active in the community, serving as members on various boards of non-profit groups that assist abused children and low-income families. He is also active in a number of civic organizations that contribute to the growth and quality of life in Fort Bend County.
A graduate of the University of Houston he also earned an MBA from Southern Methodist University.
Shirley Knesek-Enloe
Shirley Knesek-Enloe is Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operations Officer of Founders Bank, in addition to serving on the Board of Directors.
Shirley has more than 30 years of experience in accounting and bank operations and more than 20 years of experience in interest risk analysis, budgeting and strategic planning. She was responsible for the financials and operations of two de novo banks in the past six years. Her most recent bank grew to four locations and $175 million in assets over a three-year period.
J. Michael Dinges (Advisory Director)
Mike Dinges is Executive Vice President of Founders Bank, with responsibility for managing client relationships in the commercial, real estate and construction markets. He also serves as an Advisory Director and on a number of key bank committees as part of the bank’s executive management team.
He is a long-time resident of Fort Bend, having grown up in the county and attended local schools. Members of his family have been raising cattle in Fort Bend since the 1940s.
Mike currently serves as president of Fort Bend County Levee Improvement District No. 19 and as a member of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo; the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association; the Greater Fort Bend Economic Development Council; the Katy Area Economic Development Council; and the Rose-Rich Chamber of Commerce.
He is also the former mayor of Fulshear, serving from 2000-2006, where he continues to live with his wife and young children.
Mike is a graduate of Stephen F. Austin University in Nacogdoches.
Advisory Board
Jim Brown, CEO - Memorial Hermann Hospital Sugar Land
Rodney Craig, CEO - Summus Industries, Inc.
Paul Danziger, Investments
Kenneth W. Enders, President - Mercedes Benz of Sugar Land
Dr. Kim S. Gee, Kim S. Gee Orthodontics
Dr. Dennis Halford, Halford Orthodontics
Jared Jameson, Vice President - W J Interests, LLC.
Lenin Juarez, General Manager - Action Gypsum Supply
Dr. Phil Lineberger, Pastor - Williams Trace Baptist Church
Rev. Morris Matthis, Sr. Pastor - Christ United Methodist Church
Jamil Musa, Owner - Brookstreet Bar -B-Q
Pat O'Connell, President - O'Connell Realty Advisors
Dick Phillips, Assoc. Vice Chancellor - U of H System Sugar Land
Beryl Ramsey, CEO - St. Luke's Hospital Sugar Land
Greg Stirman, Executive Director - Second Mile Mission Center
Ken Wood CPA, Ken Wood & Associates