Bank Mutual Hires RE Lending Chief

Bank Mutual Corp., Milwaukee, has hired Thomas H. Koepp as director of investment real estate lending for its Bank Mutual subsidiary bank.Mr. Koepp will have overall responsibility for the origination of "investment real estate mortgage loans" and for the development and implementation of investment real estate mortgage lending objectives, policies, and practices, Bank Mutual said. "Tom has a proven track record and will have a major impact on achieving our strategic goals in the important investment real estate lending line of business," said Michael T. Crowley Jr., chairman and chief executive officer of Bank Mutual Corp. Mr. Koepp has over 25 years of experience in investment real estate lending, according to Bank Mutual, and joins the bank from the Milwaukee-based St. Francis Bank division of MAF Bancorp, where he was most recently a vice president in the commercial real estate finance area.