About Us

Management

LOU ELLEN FICKE is the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Bank. Ms. Ficke, has more than 40 years of commercial banking experience, 27 years of which she served as a senior officer, chief financial officer and cashier for several community banks

ANTHONY "SKIP" MANISCALCO is the Executive Vice President and Chief Credit Officer of the Bank and a resident of Murrieta, California. He has over 35 years banking lending experience and, during the past six years, primarily in San Diego County and the Temecula Valley market. Mr. Maniscalco has an extensive commercial lending background in a variety of financial institutions including experience as a Chief Credit Officer, a Chief Credit Administrator, and an Acting Chief Executive Officer.

Directors

JANICE M. AHRENDT, Chairman of the Board and Interim Chief Executive Officer Jan is the President/CEO of the Auditing Firm of Jan Ahrendt, LLC. She is a Certified Risk Professional (Recipient of the First Achievement Award in recognition of obtaining the highest examination score nationwide), Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist and a Certified Community Bank Internal Auditor. Jan started her career in banking in 1969 at Wells Fargo Bank. Her business offers various audit services for community banks in California and the Pacific Northwest.

FESTUS B. DADA, M.D, SECRETARY OF THE BOARD, was born in Nigeria, became a naturalized U.S. Citizen in 1982 and moved to Riverside County in 1987, the same year he established his medical surgery practice in Murrieta. Dr. Dada is currently the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Prime Partners Medical Group in Temecula and also the Chairman and President of Medical Resources, International, a non-profit organization that provides scholarships to students in the United States, Africa and Asia.

DONALD W. LEE, M.D. has been a resident of the Temecula Valley for the past nine years. Dr. Lee graduated from the University of California (Riverside, CA) with a B.S. degree in Biochemistry/Biology. He received his MD from University of California (Los Angeles, CA). He established his internal medical practice in Temecula in 1997 and Prime Partners Medical Group in Temecula in 2002. Since 2000 Dr. Lee has been the Chairman of the Department of Medicine at one of the two major hospitals in the Temecula Valley, Inland Valley Regional Hospital in Wildomar.

THOMAS T. PANGELINAN is a retired California community banker whose most recent position was Senior Vice President/Chief Financial Officer at Peninsula Bank of Commerce (Millbrae, CA). Previous positions have been Senior Vice President/Chief Financial Officer at Bank of Contra Costa (Walnut Creek, CA) and Bank Operations Officer at Security National Bank (Walnut Creek, CA). Peninsula Bank of Commerce and Bank of Contra Costa were de novo banks that Mr. Pangelinan helped to establish.

HOWARD Y. REE, Director, has been a Certified Public Accountant for the past 34 years and has had a residence in Temecula since 2003. Mr. Ree is a partner of Ree & Kim, CPAs, a professional business he founded in 1982 with headquarters in Los Angeles where he maintains a second home. In 1995, he was the founder of Hanin Federal Credit Union, has served as its Chairman and is now its President/CEO. Mr. Ree also has a real estate broker's license.

RICHARD K. SHUMAN, M.D has lived and practiced in the Temecula Valley for the past 18 years. He received his B.S. degree from Brigham Young University (Provo, UT) and his M.D. from University of California (San Francisco, CA). Dr. Shuman is an Anesthesiologist and resident of Murrieta. In 1990, Dr. Shuman started Temecula Motorsports in Murrieta with the Yamaha franchise and expanding to include American Honda, Bombardier, Suzuki, Kawasaki and Polaris, all geographically-limited exclusive franchises. In 1999 he sold 50% of the business to a partner and together they own a 40,000 square foot retail facility for this business that does approximately $20 million in sales annually.

GERALD R. WILSON received his B.A. degree from University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN). He has been the proprietor of a family-owned winery in Temecula for the past ten years where he also maintains his residence.
Mr. Wilson began his career following military service as an officer by joining Midland National Bank in its training program, subsequently working in the investment trust department as an investment analyst and later became a stock broker and advanced to Vice President in charge of West Coast sales for a NYSE firm.

KUMAR S. YAMANI was an organizer and founding shareholder of the Bank. He is the President and CEO of OSI Consulting, located in Woodland Hills. OSI Consulting is a leading information technology services company driven to create business value for customers through the innovative application of advanced technologies. Mr. Yamani's expertise in information technology will provide a resource to management and the board. Mr. Yamani was elected to the board in January 2009..