Austin Thompson has 15+ years of commercial banking experience in the Kansas City market. In 2022, he was promoted to Vice President II – Commercial Banking. Austin works with privately owned businesses on all their banking needs, including commercial loans for working capital needs, equipment purchases, owner occupied real estate, and business mergers and acquisitions. He serves as chair of the First Business Bank transportation and logistics industry practice group.

Austin received his bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Finance and Banking from the University of Missouri and a master’s degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Finance from Rockhurst University. He is a former Big Brother with the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Kansas City organization and currently serves as a Match-Maker, as a member of the Golf for Girls committee benefitting Girls on the Run of Greater KC, and was a Co-Chair for the Midwest Innocence Project’s Faces of Innocence Gala.