Mountain West Bank names new CEO

Mountain West Bank has named Scott Anderson as its new CEO. He will succeed Russ Porter, who will retire as CEO in spring 2018.

Anderson is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and the Pacific Coast Banking School at the University of Washington.

He has worked at several Northwest community banks. He was most recently the CEO of North Cascacdes Bank in Chelan, Washington, a division of Montana-based Glacier Bancorp., which also owns Mountain West Bank.

Mountain West Bank was founded in Coeur d’Alene in 1993. The bank has four Eastern Washington offices and eight in North Idaho.