SAN RAMON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tri-Valley Bank (OTCBB:TRVB) today announced that it has hired Lisa Milke as its Chief Financial Officer and Glen Lezama as its Chief Credit Officer. Both are executive vice presidents of the bank.
Milke brings more than 30 years of banking and finance experience to her position. Before joining Tri-Valley Bank, she served as the executive vice president and chief financial officer for First Independent Bank of Nevada from 1999 to 2011. Prior to that she served as vice president and controller for Comstock Bank in Reno, NV. She began her banking career with First National Bank of Nevada/First Interstate Bank of Nevada, where she served as vice president and finance manager from 1978 to 1991. She is a board member and past president of the Nevada Association of Employers, a board member and treasurer for the Nevada State Board of Accountancy and a past board member and treasurer of the Nevada Bankers Association. She is a graduate of the University of Nevada, Reno. Milke replaces Eugene Jeanne, who previously held this role.
Lezama has more than 30 years of banking experience, which includes risk management, credit administration, commercial credit analysis, business development and lending. Throughout his career, Lezama has assisted a wide range of local community businesses with customer financing solutions for expansion, real property acquisition and investment in capital equipment.
Before joining the bank, Lezama was chief risk officer at Gateway Bank, and prior to that had served as chief credit officer of Alta Alliance Bank. He has also been a chief credit officer of Diablo Valley Bank, and before that had worked in various management and lending roles for Bay Bank of Commerce, California Bank and Trust’s San Francisco Region and for Union Bank of California’s SBA group. He holds a degree from Queen’s Royal College, Trinidad and Tobago, and is a graduate of the Pacific Coast Banking School at the University of Washington.
This release may contain forward-looking statements, such as, among others, statements about plans, expectations and goals concerning growth and improvement. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties. Such risks and uncertainties may include but are not necessarily limited to fluctuations in interest rates, inflation, government regulations and general economic conditions, including the real estate market in California and in the East Bay region on Northern California in particular and other factors beyond the Bank’s control. Such risks and uncertainties could cause results for subsequent interim periods or for the entire year to differ materially from those indicated. Readers should not place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements, which reflect management’s view only as of the date hereof. The Bank undertakes no obligation to publicly revise these forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.
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