Born and raised in Dimmitt, Texas, Paul Dannevik earned his finance degree from Texas Tech University before graduating from the Texas Tech School of Banking and the Graduate School of Banking in Boulder, Colorado. 

With a focus on commercial and industrial, mortgage, and real estate lines of business, Dannevik has partnered with area leaders to help build the region for the last three decades. Most recently, he served as Senior Vice President and Regional Manager for Lubbock National Bank, with prior management experience at American Bank of Commerce.

Actively engaged with various community organizations, Dannevik serves as a board director for the Ronald McDonald House of the South Plains, Make-a-Wish Foundation, Lubbock Economic Housing Authority, and Covenant Foundation Finance Committee. Married to Kathy Dannevik, the couple raised two children, Caylor and Chloe Kate, on the South Plains.