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Lynn Fuller to retire as Heartland’s executive chairman

Lynn Fuller, a former CEO of Heartland Financial USA, is retiring as the Dubuque, Iowa, company’s executive operating chairman. 


The $19.3 billion-asset company disclosed in a regulatory filing Friday that Fuller, 72, will step down at its 2022 annual meeting. He will remain on Heartland’s board; his current three-year term is set to end in 2024.

Fuller had a large role turning Heartland into the company it is today. He was the company’s CEO from 1999 to 2018. He was CEO of Dubuque Bank and Trust, the company’s Iowa bank, from 1986 to 1999. 

Heartland is in the process of collapsing its 11 bank charters.

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