May 29, 2009 (FinancialWire) — Heartland Financial USA, Inc. (NASDAQ: HTLF) has hired David Keim in the newly created position of senior vice president and chief risk officer. Keim has spent the past 22 years at Susquehanna Bancshares, a bank holding company in Pennsylvania.

For five of those years, Keim was Susquehanna’s chief risk officer. He has led several divisions within the organization, including risk management, loan review, credit oversight, compliance, audit and corporate insurance.

Keim was Susquehanna’s chief credit officer as well as its director of corporate loan review and president of the company’s commercial small ticket leasing company.

In his new role, Keim will be responsible for leading the risk management function for Heartland Financial and its 10 community banks, including defining and assessing enterprise-wide business risks and facilitating proactive decision-making to effectively manage such risks.

According to Heartland, Keim will play an integral role in the company’s ongoing efforts to enhance its financial reporting, expense control and risk management systems.

Dubuque, Iowa-based Heartland Financial USA is a financial services company with 61 banking locations in 41 communities in Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, New Mexico, Arizona, Montana and Colorado.

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