Casto Promoted to Chief Strategy & Analytics Officer
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 shared, “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, shared, “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.”
About Farm Credit of the Virginias
Farm Credit of the Virginias provides over $2.4 billion dollars in financing to more than 12,500 farmers, agribusinesses and rural homeowners throughout Virginia, West Virginia and western Maryland. Farm Credit is a cooperative capitalized largely through investments made by farmers, ranchers and the rural homeowners and businesses that borrow from them. In fact, as part of a nationwide network they are the largest single provider of agricultural credit in the United States and have been for over 100 years. Farm Credit helps maintain and improve the quality of life in rural America and on the farm through its constant commitment to competitive lending, expert financial services and for facilitating and sharing knowledge and resources through the Farm Credit Knowledge Center.