Brenda Brandom
EVP, Cannabis, Treasury Management and retail banking
Bank Michigan
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Brenda A. Brandom is an Executive Vice-President of Bank Michigan and is on the Executive Team. Brenda is responsible for managing their Cannabis and Treasury Management programs and Retail Services. She has 20+ years of experience in Banking. Her specialty has been focused on Treasury Management and the past 4 years inclusive of a high growth cannabis banking program. She was promoted in 2023 to EVP and now has Retail banking under her umbrella.
Brenda believes that banking should be available for all eligible consumers and business customers. As such she has spent majority of her career in banking at organizations that have been innovators and risk takers in the market.
She has a masters degree in Public Administration from Central Michigan University and obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Finance from Marygrove College.
Currently employed at Bank Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI she is working to build momentum in their areas of Cannabis, Treasury Management and Retail banking. She was formerly employed at what was originally a de novo bank that opened in 2007. Brenda spent 15 years of her career their and grew treasury management from $0 to hundreds of millions. And in 2019 she was instrumental in starting their cannabis banking program in MI in consort with BSA and Risk Management.
The only multi-billion-dollar bank in this space as such Brenda grew the CRB program from $0 to multi-millions in an 18-month time-period. Brenda continued to grow both TM and Cannabis banking through the banks acquisition in 2022.
She also currently serves on the Board of Arts Centric a program that focuses on providing youth interested in theater with training and a stage to cultivate their talents. Using the arts to inform, change and enhance lives, one audience at a time. Their goals coincide with Brenda’s desire to provide banking to enhance all deserving businesses on a broad spectrum.
