Kade Peterson has joined MidSouth Bank as Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer. His primary duties include overseeing the processes and staff responsible for ensuring the bank’s customers have the most secure technological tools they need for personal and business transactions.

For the past three years, Peterson worked for USAmeriBank in Tampa, Fla., as EVP and Chief Operations Officer.

Peterson, who has more than three decades of banking technology and operations experience, also previously worked for Spokane, Wash.-based Sterling Bank (now Umpqua Bank) and Salt Lake City, Utah-based Zions Bancorporation.

Peterson has a bachelor of science degree in finance from Weber State University in Ogden, Utah.

He and his family have relocated to Lafayette.