Metropolitan National Bank CEO selected for first Lambert-Melton Award

Metropolitan National Bank President and CEO Mark McFatridge has been selected as the first recipient of the Lambert-Melton Award.

The award from the central U.S. region of the Young Presidents' Organization was created in tribute to former Missouri Insulation & Supply Inc. President John Lambert and former Environmental Works Inc. owner Robin Melton, who died in a September 2012 plane crash. The award recognizes leaders who immerse themselves in their jobs and YPO and maintains leadership and friendship roles with work and YPO colleagues, according to news release.

"Mark leads with the same enthusiasm, energy and humor that John and Robin displayed. As John and Robin did, Mark holds his friends and family in high esteem and is not afraid to demonstrate honesty, integrity and sincerity," the YPO Ozarks Chapter wrote in its nomination of McFatridge.

YPO serves as a networking group for some 21,000 chief executives globally who lead companies generating $6 trillion in revenue and employes more than 15 million people in over 125 countries, according to YPO.org.

The central U.S. region comprises 18 chapters with 1,450 members.

McFatridge, who joined the Ozarks chapter of YPO in 2007, was noted by the organization as an active member and leader. McFatridge stepped in as chapter chairman after Melton's death and as membership chairman to succeed Lambert. During the past year, the bank CEO has led two YPO recruiting events, growing its membership by 50 percent, the release said.

“I am honored and humbled to be the first recipient of an award created in memory of Robin Melton and John Lambert,” McFatridge said in the release. “Not only were they both great leaders, they were great friends. The entire Ozarks chapter and central region has grown stronger in their honor.”[[In-content Ad]]