Reighard joins HomeBanc as chief people officer

Reighard joins HomeBanc as chief people officer

 

ATLANTA — Well-known Southern Baptist pastor Ike Reighard has assumed the new position of chief people officer for HomeBanc Mortgage Corp., a loan company with nearly 1,000 employees and $5 billion in loans throughout the southeastern United States.

Reighard, 52, will be responsible for shepherding the company’s corporate culture and honing ethical standards and leadership. He also will serve on the eight-member executive committee, a group of HomeBanc’s highest-ranking executives. Reighard, pastor of NorthStar Church in Kennesaw, Ga., near Atlanta is a former president of the Southern Baptist Pastors Conference. He served as senior pastor at New Hope Baptist Church in Fayetteville, Ga.,1976–96 and at First Baptist Atlanta in 1996. He founded NorthStar in 1997 and the congregation has been among the fastest-growing church plants in the Southern Baptist Convention.