New Brookfield Capitol branch manager Rilley Franz is from Gary, Indiana, and previously worked as a center manager for FedEx Office. He talked to Shorelines about what brought him to North Shore Bank.

How did you get into banking?
Once I knew I was leaving FedEx Office, I was speaking with my district manager and he recommended that I look into the financial field, because I was doing the financial auditing for our district and seemed to really enjoy it. That caused me to open up my job search more and start looking at banking.

How would you describe your management style?
My management style is to lead by example and develop my team so that they can be as self-sufficient as possible and move up if that is something that they are interested in.

What might you be doing if you weren’t in banking?
Most of my working experience is in management in logistics and printing, so I would be working in one of those fields.

And what’s one fun, interesting, or goofy fact about you?
I played semipro basketball for three years, but now I spend my time with my wife and our 18-year-old pit bull, Eve. Our home time is spent playing tug-of-war with stuffed animals and going on car rides.