Yankee Farm Credit announces the creation of a new Commercial Lending Division, and the promotion of Chris Bessette to manage this division. As Assistant Vice President/Commercial Lending Division Manager, Chris will be responsible for many of the Association's largest non-dairy loans, including all of Yankee's purchased participation loans. His current portfolio already includes many of these accounts, and we expect this new division to grow when fully staffed. We currently have an opening for a credit analyst to support Chris. Click here for details.
Chris came to work for Yankee Farm Credit in 1998 as a loan officer following graduation from St. Lawrence University with degrees in economics and French. We lost Chris for five years when he moved to Pennsylvania in 2004 and served as a tax preparer and business management advisor for farmers in Southeastern PA. He returned to Vermont in 2009 and rejoined YFC as a Senior Loan Officer/Participation Specialist. Chris is a Farm Credit Tax Specialist and graduated from the Farm Credit System Leadership Development Program in 2013. He works in our White River Jct. office.
A little known fact about Chris – he is a movie star! In the 1995 movie Let's Go To The Farm, about the Bessette family farm in New Haven, Vermont, Chris is the high school senior headed off to college.
Please join me in congratulating Chris on this promotion.
