It’s always exciting to add new members to our team. Here are some of the fresh faces at North Shore Bank.

Traveling teller Suzanne Diab was born in Los Angeles, but grew up in New Berlin and Chicago. Before joining North Shore Bank, she worked for eight years as an esthetician. “I am deathly afraid of possums and was once on The Steve Harvey Show to ask him how to get over that fear,” she says. “I was taking acting classes at the time and applied for the ‘Ask Steve’ segment. They asked if I had any weird fears and ended up picking me. I had possums outside my house, and every night I would run to the door, afraid I would get attacked. Steve just told me they wouldn’t hurt me, but I’m not convinced.”

Product and implementation specialist Timothy Effertz was born and raised in southwestern Milwaukee and has lived in Pewaukee for almost 10 years. He previously worked as a senior product manager of a natural food color product line. “I worked for that company for almost 20 years,” he says. He and his family like to stay active. “My wife, my two boys (8 and 6), and I love outdoor activities like camping, fishing, and hiking when we are not in hockey rinks, on the baseball diamond, at the tennis court, or when I am not running half marathons or marathons.”

Fox Point teller Anna Levine is from Oak Creek and just moved to Greenfield. She was previously a sales and leasing consultant at Boucher Nissan. “My mom was CEO of a credit union in Kenosha for over 20 years, and I spent a lot of my time there, sitting in on board meetings and talking to all of the members,” Anna says. “This really helped me realize how much I would love working with people.” She is also an animal lover who owns a purebred blue French bulldog and two cats. “When I get a house, I would like to foster dogs and cats and hopefully also get a Bernese mountain dog or a Great Dane,” she says.