Oldner named to advisory committee

Marnie Oldner, CEO of Stone Bank has been appointed by Chairman Jelena McWilliams to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporations’ (FDIC) Advisory committee on Community Banking.

The Committee provides advice and recommendations to the FDIC on a broad range of policy issues that have a particular impact on community banks throughout the United States.

Oldner is the CEO and director of Stone Bank and EVP and a director of the Stone Bancshares holding company. She has been on staff with the Bank since July 1, 2011 serving as its CEO, CFO, and president during that time. Oldner worked with many banks inside and outside of Arkansas while a managing principal at DD&F Consulting Group, Little Rock, Arkansas, for seven years.

Prior to joining DD&F, Oldner had 16 years of experience in banking including serving as chief financial officer for a $1.4 billion bank holding company and its five subsidiary banks.

Before her direct involvement in the banking industry, Oldner was a certified public accountant for Coopers & Lybrand (now PriceWaterhouseCoopers), in Newport Beach, California. She is a graduate of California State University in Fullerton, California, where she majored in business and accounting.  

Oldner, of Little Rock has served as CEO of Stone Bank since 2011.  During that time the Mountain View-chartered bank has grown from $65 million to more than $530 million in total assets, adding locations in Harrison, Little Rock and White Hall, and acquiring DeWitt Bank & Trust with its two locations in Arkansas County.  The bank has also become one of the region’s leaders in government guaranteed lending through the SBA, USDA and FSA.  Stone Bank is listed as one of the SBA’s Top 100 lenders nationally. Oldner was named Bank CFO of the Year by Arkansas Business magazine in 2016 and Business Woman of the Year by the Women’s Foundation of Arkansas in 2020.