About Us

About Us

The year 2008 marks NexTier Bank’s 130-year history, one that is rich in safety, soundness and community involvement. Four generations of the Irvine family have led NexTier since its founding in 1878. NexTier Bank has worked with individuals, families, organizations and businesses in the region to help contribute to economic growth and community enrichment.

NexTier provides business and consumer financial solutions and offers not only traditional banking services, but a cash department, trust department, NexTier Insurance Services, The Family Business Center at NexTier, NexTier Wealth Management, NexTier Mortgage, NexTier Armored Services, and Radnor Trust Company.

NexTier has 300 employees, $500 million in assets, and serves the western Pennsylvania region with corporate offices in Butler and Wexford, PA, north of Pittsburgh.  NexTier Bank's 16 community offices serve Butler, Armstrong, and northern Allegheny counties, as well as Radnor Trust in Radnor, PA.

S. J. Irvine, III is Chairman of the Board and Margaret Irvine Weir, President, represents the fourth generation of Irvine leadership. Donald Shamey is Chief Executive Officer.

History

NexTier Bank, formerly Citizens National Bank, originally was founded because of a great need to protect and access cash when Evansburg (now Evans City), became an oil boomtown. NexTier received a state charter in 1893 and a national charter in 1907. Through the market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression, NexTier continued sound operations while many of the nation’s banks collapsed.

In 1956, S. J. Irvine III succeeded his father and grandfather and became the bank’s third-generation president. He began a progressive expansion program in 1959. His daughter, Margaret Irvine Weir, became the fourth generation to lead the bank as president in 2000.

On October 11, 2005, a new name and tagline, NexTier Bank, Experience The Next Level, was chosen to position the enterprise for the future and reflect the organization’s strategic direction.

True to its tradition, NexTier continues its commitment to the communities it serves and to helping customers reach the next level of financial growth and security.

Read about NexTier and its community involvement.

Honors

• NexTier Bank has received the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business 5th Annual Family Business of the Year award in the medium-sized category. This prestigious award recognizes successful business operations, positive family/business linkage, multigenerational family business involvement and contributions to industry and the community.

• The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland elected NexTier President Margaret Irvine Weir as director of its Pittsburgh office.  

• Jennifer Roxbury, NexTier Senior Vice President, was named most distinguished person in Butler County by the Butler County Chamber of Commerce for her community service in the region.  

• NexTier Bank has served a leadership role in the United Way of Butler County campaign and accepted the “Most Community Active Business” award twice from the Butler County Chamber of Commerce.

• The PA Department of Community and Economic Development named NexTier among the top 50 Best Places to Work in PA for medium-sized companies for two consecutive years.

• NexTier Bank has also earned first place in Community Involvement in its asset category by the PA Association of Community Bankers during Community Banking Week.

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