Amy H. Gales
Executive Vice President
Regional Agribusiness Banking Group

As head of the Regional Agribusiness Banking Group, Amy Gales is responsible for the bank’s U.S. agricultural cooperative customers and institutional lending relationships with Agricultural Credit Associations. Ms. Gales oversees the delivery of credit and other financial services to these customers and continues to focus on strengthening CoBank’s business relationships with the Farm Credit System. Ms. Gales is a member of CoBank's Operating Committee and Senior Leadership Team.

Prior to assuming this role, Ms. Gales was responsible for managing the agribusiness lending operations of CoBank’s Central Region, supporting lending in eight Midwestern states. She began her career with the former St. Paul Bank for Cooperatives, working directly with local cooperative customers over a 17-year period in a variety of positions. Subsequently she served as the chief executive officer of a grain and farm supply co-op in southern Minnesota and as executive director of an agricultural development center in South Dakota. She returned to banking in 2002, working in leadership posts at both Commerce Bank and Wells Fargo. She joined CoBank in 2007 as regional vice president in the Minneapolis office.

Ms. Gales earned a bachelor’s degree in business with a finance emphasis from the University of Minnesota.