Chip Reeves has been the Chief Executive Officer of MidWestOne Financial Group, Inc., a $6.5 billion company headquartered in Iowa City, Iowa, since November 2022. MidWestOne has 56 banking offices with operations in Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Colorado.
Chip has 33 years of broad-based banking experience including 22 years at Fifth Third Bank, where he ultimately was President of Fifth Third’s Chicago operations. Prior to joining MidWestOne, he was President of $3 billion Bank of the Cascades and President/CEO/Director of Beach Bancorp based in Florida.
Chip is a graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio where he was also a four-year letter winner and captain of the basketball team. As Chip says, “he was good enough to become a banker”. He and his wife of 29 years, Michelle, met at Miami and have four children, two boys and two girls.
Chip believes in significantly giving back to the communities where he has lived and has served on a multitude of professional, civic and charitable boards. Currently, he serves on the Board of Directors for the Iowa Bankers Association, the Iowa Association of Business & Industry, Orchestra Iowa and is a member of the Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance.