Executive Management

A recognized banking and financial services executive, Larry F. Mazza, Chief Executive Officer and Director, embraces technology and motivates others to think bigger and do bigger. A high-energy leader with an entrepreneurial mindset who believes fortune favors the bold, Mr. Mazza builds strong professional partnerships through his philosophy of love, trust and commitment.

Mr. Mazza’s expertise and enthusiasm in finance, startups, the growing payments industry, fast-changing technology and highly regulated industries like gaming and banking-as-a-service have made him a trusted partner and thought leader across the globe. 

Mr. Mazza joined MVB in 2005 and became CEO in 2009. Under his leadership, MVB has grown from a community bank with 35 employees to a NASDAQ-listed and Russell 2000 company with nearly 450 Team Members and Fintech clients from coast to coast. During Mr. Mazza’s time to date at MVB, total assets have grown to more than $3.4 billion. MVB’s model now goes beyond traditional banking and leverages the disruption occurring in the financial services industry to the benefit of shareholders and clients.

As an MVB Board Financial Director, Mr. Mazza serves on MVB Bank’s ALCO, Loan Approval and Loan Review Committees. He also serves as Executive Chair of MVB Edge Ventures, an MVB subsidiary.

As an entrepreneur, Mr. Mazza was a co-owner and business partner for 20 years of the global sports media business venture Football Talk, LLC, and its nationally recognized and highly successful website ProFootballTalk.com known as PFT, a key content provider for NBC Sports. Mr. Mazza continues to be an active trusted advisor to the enterprise.

As civic-minded and business leader, Mr. Mazza serves as a Board member of public companies and non-profit organizations. Appointed by three different governors since 2010, Mr. Mazza continues to serve as a member of the West Virginia Board of Banking and Financial Institutions. Mr. Mazza is a founding Board Member of Intercoastal Mortgage, LLC, one of the largest independent mortgage banks operating in the Mid-Atlantic Region. He is also a Board member for Gen-Opp Fund, a hedge fund focused on finding generational opportunities in banking and Fintech for its investors. Mr. Mazza also serves on the Board of Directors for BillGO, a Fintech company based in Colorado.

From 2007 to 2019, Mr. Mazza served on PDC Energy’s Board, a NASDAQ-listed, Denver, Colorado, based mid-cap oil and gas company where he was on the Compensation Committee, Chair of the Nomination & Governance Committee and was an Audit Committee member. In 2023, PDC was acquired by Chevron Corporation. From 2020 to 2023, he served on the Board of Kraken Financial, a special purpose depository institution based in Wyoming. In 2017, he became a National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Board Leadership Fellow.

A West Virginia University graduate with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Mr. Mazza began his career as a Certified Public Accountant. He worked for KPMG as a CPA with a focus on auditing, including audits of financial institutions. Prior to joining MVB, Mr. Mazza was Senior Vice President & Retail Banking Manager for BB&T Bank’s West Virginia North region. His 20 years at BB&T (now Truist Bank), included serving as President of Empire National Bank and as Regional President of One Valley Bank.

Brad Greathouse joined MVB Financial Corp. in 2018 as Senior Vice President of Human Resources. Greathouse has since been promoted to Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer.

He is a graduate of West Virginia University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. He later graduated from the University of South Carolina, where he earned a master’s degree in Human Resource Management.

Mr. Greathouse has nearly 30 years of progressive leadership experience. He was previously employed by Mylan’s North America leadership team where he served as Vice President of Human Relations through a period of tremendous growth. He was responsible for overseeing employee engagement and labor relations, succession planning and talent development, as well as leading and supporting a number of business transformation and restructuring projects.

Prior to his time at Mylan, Mr. Greathouse spent more than 12 years at GE Aviation in a number of senior human resources leadership roles for global organizations, including Turbine Airfoils Manufacturing and Engineering Division, Finance and Legal Divisions and the Customer and Product Support Operations. In his most recent position with GE as the Executive Human Resources Leader, Assembly, Test and Overhaul Center of Excellence, Mr. Greathouse provided overall human resources direction and strategy for a production, services and engineering organization with 20 locations and 7,000 employees across Asia, Europe, South America and the U.S.

Mr. Greathouse has been involved in community service activities throughout his career. He was a long-serving Board Member for GE Aviation’s Community Service Fund and managed Mylan’s regional charitable contributions program. In 2013, Mr. Greathouse was a community campaign chairman for the United Way of Monongalia and Preston Counties and served on its Board of Directors for nearly six years.

Mr. Greathouse currently leads all aspects of human resources strategies and programs to support the continued development of MVB Financial’s growth-oriented culture, including Team Member engagement and development, talent acquisition, performance management, compensation and benefits programs and organizational development activities.

Roy J.Hinkamper joined MVB in 2023 as Senior Vice President, Chief Audit Executive, reporting directly to the Financial Audit Committee of the MVB Board of Directors, as well as to CEO Larry F. Mazza. Mr. Hinkamper works closely with MVB Senior Leadership, Board Members, the MVB Bank Chief Risk Officer, external auditors, regulators and other key stakeholders.

Mr. Hinkamper is responsible for the development, administration and management of the audit function’s programs for MVB Financial Corp. and MVB Bank. He partners with key leaders in Operations, Finance, Legal and Compliance to foster an effective and practical environment of internal controls and effective business processes.

Most recently, he served as Chief Audit Executive at Silvergate Bank. His prior experience includes leading Internal Audit services for Strategic Risk Associates, LLC; founding his own accounting and consulting firm; being a Director, Risk Management, for TD Ameritrade; and serving as Vice President Internal Audit for Scottrade Financial Services. His time at Scottrade was preceded by a long career at KPMG and Deloitte in their internal audit and enterprise risk services practices. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Institute of Internal Auditors and ISACA.

Mr. Hinkamper earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Millikin University and an MBA in Finance and Strategic Decision Making from Loyola University in Chicago. He is also a Six Sigma Green Belt and an Eagle Scout.

With 25 years of payments industry experience at the executive and board level, Jeremy L. Kuiper joined Team MVB as Executive Vice President, Fintech President in June 2024.

 Mr. Kuiper is focused on leading, developing and growing MVB’s Fintech Banking Team, across all payment activities including issuing, acquiring, gaming and payment/money movement products and services. Mr. Kuiper leads the strategic direction of the Fintech division working with internal leaders, Fintech partners, network relationships and private equity/venture capital colleagues.

 From 2019 to 2024, Mr. Kuiper worked at Pathward, serving as Executive Vice President, Enterprise Development. Prior to joining Pathward, Mr. Kuiper led The Bancorp Bank’s Fintech Solutions division serving as the Executive Vice President and Managing Director. At The Bancorp, Mr. Kuiper led all of the payments business both domestically and internationally. Additionally, Mr. Kuiper has served in senior leadership positions with BankFirst and United Credit National Bank and has served as the Chairman of the Network Branded Prepaid Card Association, now known as the Innovative Payments Association, along with serving on the boards of various Fintech organizations. He has worked with Cohen Circle as an advisor and participant in a number of Fintech related SPACs.

 Mr. Kuiper received his B.B.A. in Business Administration and Management from Augustana University. 

Julie A. O’Connor, Executive Vice President, Chief Fintech Risk and AML Officer, joined Team MVB in March 2023 and is responsible for leading the Financial Crimes and Fintech Risk Teams. Ms. O’Connor has more than 25 years of leadership experience in BSA/AML, risk management, regulatory compliance, corporate governance and regulatory relations within retail/commercial banking and Fintech organizations. She is responsible for establishing the long-term vision and developing strategies for the Financial Crimes and Fintech Risk teams and initiatives that support MVB’s ongoing business operations and strategic plan. She partners with key leaders in Information Security, Fintech and CoRe Business, Operations, Enterprise Risk and Legal to ensure that risk management strategies are aligned with business objectives and compliance requirements, creating a strong foundation for sustainable growth and success.

Until 2022, Ms. O’Connor served as Chief Administrative Officer/BSA Officer at Jiko Group, Inc., and its subsidiaries, Jiko Technologies, Jiko Securities and Jiko Bank. While at Jiko, she was part of the team that secured the first acquisition by a Fintech of a nationally chartered bank. She also managed their $40M Series B funding round and served on the board of directors of Mid-Central National Bank, a Jiko Group subsidiary. Previously, she served as Chief Accounting Officer and BSA Officer of Education Loan Finance, Inc., and its subsidiary, SouthEast Bank. She also held the role of Senior Consultant for ProBank Austin Consulting (now Forvis) working with banks remediating consent orders during the 2008 financial crisis. She is an inactive Certified Public Accountant as well.

Ms. O’Connor holds an MBA from Tennessee Technological University. She earned a Graduate School of Banking Certificate from Louisiana State University and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Tennessee Technological University.

Joseph “Joe” R. Rodriguez brings more than 20 years of experience in financial services risk management leadership to MVB. Mr. Rodriguez has forged a strong reputation as a leader who operates at the intersection of innovation and prudent risk management. Known for his deep-seated expertise in banking and financial services regulatory frameworks, he has built a reputation for building risk management teams that are not just safeguards, but drivers of business value and sustainable transformation.

At MVB, Mr. Rodriguez leads the company’s risk, legal and consumer compliance functions. He is focused on ensuring the company maintains effective risk management programs and complies with applicable laws and regulations.

Prior to joining MVB, Mr. Rodriguez served as the Executive Risk Officer for Financial Services at Capital One and managed a team of risk professionals responsible for enterprise risk and change management activities. In a prior role at Capital One, he also served as the Lead Compliance Officer for Financial Services, and Acting Head of Enterprise Privacy Compliance. 

Previously, Mr. Rodriguez served as Lead Counsel – Financial Services Regulatory, AML and Sanctions at Walmart. Mr. Rodriguez also served as outside counsel to leading banks and Fintech companies and was a partner at the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine LLP. Much of his early career was spent in government service, where he served as Regional Counsel at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and was a Trial Attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, representing the United States in federal district court and bankruptcy court regarding complex tax and financial fraud matters. He began his career as an associate at the international law firm Milbank LLP.

Mr. Rodriguez received his J.D. from Harvard Law School and holds a B.S. in Accounting from The College of New Jersey.

Mike Sumbs has more than 15 years of experience advising community and regional banks on M&A, capital raising and other strategic transactions. Mr. Sumbs started his career in 2008 at Keefe, Bruyette and Woods with a focus on advising depository institutions in the Southeast.

Following his time at KBW, Mr. Sumbs spent three years as a Strategy and Corporate Development officer with Yadkin Financial, a Raleigh, N.C., based bank. During his tenure from 2012 to 2015, he supported Yadkin through three successful whole-bank acquisitions and a public follow-on equity offering. 

Mr. Sumbs transitioned back into investment banking in 2015 joining Macquarie Capital where his work focused on advising banks and financial technology companies. He joined Raymond James in 2017 as part of the Financial Services Investment Banking team.

Over his career, Mr. Sumbs has advised on more than 50 bank M&A transactions and more than 30 capital formation transactions for public and private banking institutions. He received a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Richmond (cum laude) and an MBA from The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, where he was recognized as a Fuqua Scholar.