Boone County National Bank: The Anatomy

BCNB, with 326 employees, is one of Columbia’s largest private companies.
At the start of the year, BCNB had $1.2 billion in assets, including $710 million in loans and $974 million in deposits.
BCNB gave more than $250,000 in cash to nonprofit groups in 2009, and employees are involved in nearly 150 nonprofit organizations and volunteer efforts.
BCNB traces its roots back to 1857, when Columbia merchant Moss Prewitt and his son-in-law, R.B. Price Sr., came up with $250,000 in capital to start the local branch of St. Louis-based Exchange Bank.
Most of the deposits back then were from farmers who wanted the bank to hold money they received in the sale of crops, livestock and other products until they needed it. After the Civil War, the bank changed its name to Boone County National Bank.
In 1974, BCNB joined Central Bancompany, a Jefferson City-based holding company.

BCNB Board of Directors

Bo Fraser,
Board Chairman
Former BCNB president/CEO
Mark Adams
President, Columbia Orthopaedic Group
Jay Burchfield
Manager, Wilgate Development LLC
Charles Digges Jr.
President, The Insurance Group
Steve Erdel
President/CEO BCNB
Robert Gerding
President, Gerding, Korte & Chitwood
Susan Stalcup Gray
Co-founder, Isabel’s Country Mustard
Stanley Kroenke
President, The Kroenke Group
Jerry Price
Manager, Suzi Davis Travel
Shelly Simon
President, Simon Oswald Associates
Gary Thompson
President/COO, Columbia Insurance Group
Mike Vangel
President, VANGEL
Bruce Walker
Dean, Trulaske College of Business, MU
Roger Wilson
President/CEO, Missouri Employers Mutual