About Us

 

Management

DONALD W. MURRAY is the President and CEO of the bank. Don joined the Bank in September 2010. Don has been a resident of the Temecula Valley since 1994 and served as Chief Credit Officer of Community National Bank for 13 years prior to its merger with Pacific Western Bank. Don served in his most recent position as CEO and President of First National Bank of Southern California from 2006 until he joined CBTV.

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.

KURT J. PRIEWE is the Executive Vice President and Chief Credit Officer of the Bank. Kurt joined the Bank in February 2011. Up to that time, Kurt worked for Pacific Western Bank for 13 years and served as Senior Vice President and Small Business Administration (SBA) Department Manager. He has over 36 years of business banking experience. Kurt has been a resident in the Temecula Valley area for 14 years.

Directors

JANICE M. AHRENDT, Chairman of the Board  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.

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.

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.

THOMAS G. WILLIAMS, MD received degrees in electrical engineering and medicine from Stanford University before serving in the U S Navy as a Flight Surgeon, staff anesthesiologist and Residency Training Director at Portsmouth Naval Hospital (VA). He left a faculty position at UCLA to become a part of the Temecula Valley community in 1991, where he became very active in real estate through Dendy Real Estate and Investment Co. until 2005. Currently he is the Medical Director at Temecula Valley Day Surgery Center. Dr. Williams is a founding Shareholder of CBTV and joined the Board of Directors in September 2011.

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..