Eric DeFries
Bank of Utah, Ogden, has promoted Eric DeFries to team lead over the bank's residential construction and consumer loan portfolios. DeFries will be responsible for managing the risk and returns for the residential construction and consumer lending products, developing policy and procedures around approvals, managing the bank's residential construction loan committee and approving consumer and mortgage loans. He will also originate and underwrite commercial loans with the commercial lending team at the Bountiful branch. DeFries has served as vice president consumer and mortgage finance manager for Bank of Utah since 2013, and earlier as assistant vice president secondary marketing manager and secondary marketing analyst. Before holding positions at Bank of Utah, DeFries was an operations analyst at Goldman Sachs. DeFries holds a bachelor’s degree in finance and economics from Utah State University, and is currently serving as the chair of the Ogden Housing Authority, for which he has served since 2014.
