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Dakota State University

Matt and Karine Paulson have been named Dakota State University’s 2020 Philanthropists of the Year. The award acknowledges donors who make significant personal contributions of time, talent and resources to Dakota State. The couple made a $300,000 sponsorship gift to fund the Paulson Cyber Incubator and Entrepreneurial Center. Matt Paulson earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees at DSU and is the founder of MarketBeat,

Central Payments

Central Payments of Dell Rapids has promoted six staff members.

Eric Cotton

Nikkee Rhody

Heather Schumacker

Heather Schumacker to executive vice president, chief operating officer. She joined Central Payments in 2019 and has more than two decades of experience in the financial services industry.

Nikkee Rhody to executive vice president, strategy. Rhody has been at Central Payments since 2018 and has two decades of experience in the payments industry. She is the co-founder and managing director of Falls Fintech, the fintech accelerator in Sioux Falls founded by Central Payments.

Eric Cotton to executive vice president, general manager. Cotton has been at Central Payments almost since its inception and has 15 years of experience in the financial services and payments industry.

Tammy McKillip

Shannon Huether

Mandy Cooper

Mandy Cooper to executive vice president, enterprise risk. Cooper joined Central Payments in 2015 and has 24 years of experience in the financial services and payments industry.

Shannon Huether to vice president, project management and implementations. Huether joined Central Payments in 2015 and has eight years of experience in the financial services and payments industry.

 Tammy McKillip to senior compliance analyst. McKillip joined Central Payments in 2019 and has 25 years of experience in the financial services industry.

Central Payments has hired three staff members.

Melissa Otten

Bridgid Hurley

Aubrey Brosz is a third-party risk manager with eight years of experience in the payments industry.

Bridgid Hurley is an information security officer.

Melissa Otten is the director of marketing and communications. She has 15 years of experience in corporate marketing. Otten also will support the marketing and communications activities of Falls Fintech.

First Dakota National Bank

Lisa Richmond-Kirby

Lisa Richmond-Kirby has joined First Dakota National Bank as a vice president and wealth and trust officer. She has more than three decades of wealth and estate planning experience.

MetaBank

Kia Tang has joined MetaBank NA as chief people and inclusion officer. Most recently, Tang served as a consultant at Heidrick & Struggles, where she placed executive and board-level talent across a variety of sectors, including banking, asset management and technology. Other experience includes serving as chief operating officer at a recruiting firm and working in mergers and acquisitions investment banking at Deutsche Bank, private equity at Harvard Capital Management and her own startup venture in the video game industry.