Farm Credit promotes Casto to Chief Strategy & Analytics Officer
Carrie Casto
Farm Credit of the Virginias (FCV), a lending cooperative serving Virginia, West Virginia and western Maryland, announced that previous director of project management, Carrie Casto, was recently promoted to chief strategy and analytics officer.
Casto is a native of Jackson County, W. Va, residing in Ripley with her husband and two children. She attended West Virginia Wesleyan College, where she double majored and earned Bachelor of Arts degrees in Psychology and Religion. Casto also holds a Change Management Certificate from the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business.
Casto joined the FCV team as branch manager of the Ripley and Clarksburg branch offices in 2018, a position she held until her promotion to lending systems manager in 2022. In 2023, the Association identified a growing need for dedicated leadership over several upcoming technology initiatives, and Casto was selected to serve as program manager. Later that year, she advanced to director of project management, assuming responsibility for all projects across the Association, a position she held until her latest promotion. During her nearly eight-year tenure with FCV, Casto has guided transformational change through the implementation of digital banking solutions, loan origination systems and core banking enhancements, resulting in improved operational efficiency and customer experience.
Regarding her new position, Casto is eager to leverage her strong background in financial services, project management and strategic alignment to the benefit of FCV as the Association works to serve agriculture and rural communities. She said, “I am honored to take on greater leadership responsibility in my work with Farm Credit of the Virginias. In this new role, I am excited to help reimagine how we serve farmers and rural communities —leveraging data driven insights, strengthening processes and fostering innovation to deliver extraordinary customer experience.”
Pete Cypret, FCV’s CEO, said, “Carrie has been an integral leader of several teams during her tenure at Farm Credit of the Virginias and I am confident that she will thrive in her new leadership role as chief strategy and analytics officer. The development of this position and Carrie’s promotion to the role represent a commitment to continuous improvement here at FCV. I look forward to working with Carrie, the rest of our senior leadership team, our board of directors and our staff to make sound, data-informed, proactive decisions to continue to meet the needs of our customer-owners and serve our rural communities.”
