Senior Management
Larry R. Doyle, Chief Executive Officer
Larry Doyle was named chief executive officer of the Farm Credit Bank of Texas in March 2003.
Prior to becoming CEO, he was executive vice president and chief operating officer of AgFirst Farm Credit Bank in Columbia, S.C.
Doyle began his Farm Credit career in 1975 as a loan officer for Orangeburg Production Credit Association in Orangeburg, S.C., and was later promoted to vice president and branch manager. In 1979 he became assistant general manager of Tri-County Electric Cooperative in St. Matthews, S.C. Doyle rejoined the Farm Credit System in 1980, when he was hired by the Columbia Bank for Cooperatives as a business development and credit officer responsible for agribusiness and utility lending. In 1986, he was promoted to vice president and treasurer of the Farm Credit Bank of Columbia, which merged in 1995 to become AgFirst Farm Credit Bank. He was named the bank's senior vice president for lending and treasury in 1996.
Doyle currently serves on the Federal Farm Credit Banks Funding Corporation Board of Directors.
Doyle earned his bachelor of science degree in business administration, banking and finance, and his MBA in finance from the University of South Carolina, Columbia. He is a native of Horry County, S.C., where he retains the family farm on which he was raised.
Kurt Thomas, Senior Vice President and Chief Credit Officer
Kurt Thomas, a 29-year veteran of Farm Credit, is senior vice president and chief credit officer of the Farm Credit Bank of Texas. He is responsible for the bank’s Credit Division, which includes capital markets, association direct lending, credit operations and risk management.
Previously, Thomas was vice president and unit manager of the bank’s Association Direct Lending Group. Since joining the bank in 1981, he has held the positions of financial analyst, credit specialist, senior loan officer, regional vice president and vice president of credit and operations. He also has held interim management assignments at two Production Credit Associations. Before starting his Farm Credit career, he was a regional manager with Old Republic, where he worked with commercial clients in the Pacific Northwest region of the U.S.
As a member of the bank’s senior management team, Thomas represents the Texas Farm Credit District on the Farm Credit System’s Captive Insurance Board of Governors.
Thomas earned his bachelor’s degree in agribusiness from Southwest Texas State University, now known as Texas State University. A native of Eagle Lake, Texas, he was involved with his family’s cattle and rice farming operation before joining the bank. He is a partner in a family ranching operation in Mason County, Texas.
Tom Hill, Senior Vice President, Chief Financial and Operations Officer
As senior vice president and chief financial and chief operations officer for the Farm Credit Bank of Texas, Tom Hill oversees three departments within the finance division: financial management, operations and technology, and human resource management. Hill has been the bank’s chief financial officer since November 1994 and chief operations officer since 2003.
He began his Farm Credit career in 1974 in the finance and accounting department at the Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of Spokane. In 1987 he transferred to the Farm Credit System Capital Corporation. A year later, Hill joined the Farm Credit Bank of Texas as vice president of financial reporting, a post he held until being promoted to chief financial officer. As CFO, his duties were expanded to include loan pricing, interest-rate risk management, financial planning, financial reporting and accounting systems.
Hill has been a member of various System financial work groups. Among his other Systemwide activities, he has served as chairman of the Capital Adequacy Work Group and was a charter member of the Accounting Standards Work Group. He is a graduate of Texas A&I University (Texas A&M University–Kingsville).