MutualBank announces the addition of Heath Simcoe as financial center manager of the Syracuse MutualBank Financial Center. Simcoe joins the bank from Best Buy where he served in management for 12 years.

Simcoe, originally from North Manchester, attended Manchester College majoring in secondary education with a focus on U.S. History. At Best Buy, Simcoe served in various roles and most recently as sales manager in Fort Wayne. He has been involved with Big Brothers Big Sisters and used to lead the community grant program at Best Buy’s Northcrest Shopping Center location.

In his spare time, he enjoys traveling, hiking, reading, politics and Indiana University basketball. He also loves spending time with his wife, Janna, and two boys, Ayden and Nolan, who Simcoe hopes will be futures IU basketball players.

MutualFirst Financial, Inc. is the parent company of MutualBank, an Indiana-based financial institution. MutualBank has 30 full-service retail financial centers in Delaware, Elkhart, Grant, Kosciusko, Randolph, St. Joseph and Wabash counties. MutualBank has two offices located in Carmel and Crawfordsville, specializing in wealth management and trust services and a loan origination office in New Buffalo, Mich.

MutualBank also operates a wholly owned subsidiary of Summit Mortgage which operates out of Fort Wayne.

MutualBank is a leading mortgage lender in each of the market areas it serves, and provides a full range of financial services including business banking, wealth management, trust services, investments and internet banking services. The Company’s stock is traded on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol “MFSF” and can be found on the internet at www.bankwithmutual.com.