Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> September 28, 2004
KESSEL D. STELLING JR., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of
Riverside Bancshares, Inc., and Riverside Bank, leads more than 90
professionals at five banking offices serving the north metro Atlanta
area. Riverside Bank is the largest and oldest community bank
headquartered in Cobb County. Mr. Stelling has a deep and distinguished
career in financial services. He served as Executive Vice President of
The Chattahoochee Bank in Marietta, Georgia, and as Senior Vice
President of First National Bank of Cobb County. Prior to that, he was
with First Railroad and Banking Company in Augusta, Georgia, for 11
years. Mr. Stelling is one of Cobb County's most active civic leaders
and was named Marietta Daily Journal's Cobb County Citizen of the year
in 2003. Mr. Stelling received his undergraduate degree in Banking and
Finance from the University of Georgia and his graduate degree from the
Graduate School of Banking of the South at Louisiana State University. Profile
operation.
Mr. Stelling: The bank was actually chartered in 1987. I, along with an
investor group, acquired a controlling
