Tom Rietz

Founder & President, Canterra Homes
Chairman, Pinnacle Bank

Tom’s built over 1500 homes, in 25 different communities and in the face of the worst housing market of the last quarter century nonetheless, Canterra keeps on building and Tom keeps going. In fact the entrepreneur bug has infected Tom so deep he refused to be satisfied just building homes, he was a founding member of an insurance company, started a mortgage brokerage and even started a bank to go along with it. As he does with homes, Tom is a master builder of companies, laying solid foundations from which they can grow and designing sustainable organizational cultures from which they thrive.