One Step Ahead

  • By Denise Kalette
  • | 7:45 a.m. February 22, 2013
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Shortly after USAmeriBank was founded in Clearwater six years ago, CEO Joe Chillura and his advisers spotted a void the mid-sized bank could fill. They provided loans to Tampa Bay companies whose needs were too big for small banks, and too small to command attentive service from big banks.

 

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