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Directors & Officers

David P. Greiner - President & CEO, Director

Mr. Greiner has been a banker since 1974 and in the community since 1982.  Previously he has served as a Regional Credit Administrator with Crocker Bank, the Senior Credit Officer of Diablo Bank, President of the Bank of San Ramon Valley and as the Market President for First Bank in Northern California.  He has a long history of community involvement serving as past President of the Danville Rotary Club, former director of the Mt. Diablo Silverado Council of the Boy Scouts, former director of the San Ramon Valley YMCA, alumni chair for Bellarmine College Preparatory as well as many other local non-profits.  He is a graduate of Santa Clara University and a resident of Diablo.

John D. Rockwell, Jr - Executive Vice President & CCO

A resident of San Jose, California, Mr. Rockwell is the Bank’s Executive Vice President and Chief Credit Officer. Mr. Rockwell’s banking career spans over 32 years, 29 of which have been in the Bay Area. Most recently, Mr. Rockwell was Senior Vice President, Regional Manager for Heritage Bank of Commerce. Mr. Rockwell is a graduate of the California Bankers Association inaugural Leadership Program.

Eugene Jeanne - Senior Vice President & CFO

Mr. Jeanne has served as the Bank's Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since June 2007. Prior to joining the Bank, Mr. Jeanne was the Chief Accounting Officer of Alliance Bancorp from November 2006 to April 2007 and the Chief Financial Officer of NewWest Bancshares from February 2005 to September 2006. He was Vice President / Financial Manager at Wells Fargo Bank and Trust from 2004 to 2005 and Vice President and Manager of Financial and Strategic Planning at Bank of the West from June 2002 until March 2004.

Brian Kehoe - Senior Vice President & Commercial Lending

A resident of Livermore, California,  Mr. Kehoe is the Bank’s Senior Vice President-Commercial Lending for the Livermore Office. Mr. Kehoe’s banking career spans over 20 years with increasing levels of responsibility which include business development, relationship management, lending and personnel supervision. Mr. Kehoe is a graduate of San Jose State University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance and a minor in Economics.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Daljit Hundal - Chairman

A resident of Livermore, California, Mr. Hundal is the Chairman of the Bank. Mr. Hundal has spent the past 26 years with CKE restaurants, the owner of Carl’s Jr. Restaurants. From 1977 to 1990, Mr. Hundal was employed by CKE in various positions from Assistant Manager to Regional Vice President. Mr. Hundal was transferred to the Bay Area in 1985 to oversee the operation of all the Carl’s Jr. Restaurants from Monterey to Santa Rosa, a chain of restaurants which had over 2,000 employees and generated over $80 million in sales. For the past five years Mr. Hundal has served as President of the Carl’s Jr. Franchise Association, which represents over 500 Carl’s Jr. locations.  Mr. Hundal and his family have lived in the Tri-Valley area for 24 years.  During this time he has been affiliated with a number of organizations including; The Lions Club, 65 Roses Club, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Bay Area Chapter of the American Cancer Society, Livermore Valley Education Foundation and Shepherd's Grace Women's Shelter.

Roland W. Chow

Roland W. Chow is a founder and director of the Bank.  Mr. Chow is currently part of the Business Development team at the SAS Institute. He has extensive sales, marketing, and operations experience in the retail and high-tech industries.  Prior to SAS, he was part of the Strategic Marketing team at the Safeway Corporation and a Product Manager at i2 Technologies.  He was also previously a Senior Management Consultant with Ernst and Young LLP, consulting for Fortune 500 companies in the area of supply chain operations and strategy.  As a Private Investor, Mr. Chow also has experience raising capital and developing the products and marketing plans for several early stage ventures.  Mr. Chow is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley with a major in Chemical Engineering.

Robert A. Dimino

A resident of San Ramon, California, Mr. Dimino is a director of the Bank. He has practiced law in Fremont, California for 29 years. His legal practice is concentrated in the areas of business, real estate and family law. Mr. Dimino served as a director of Heritage Bank East Bay from 1998 to 2004 and served as the Chairman of the bank’s Audit committee during that time. He is the former treasurer and legal counsel to the California Apartment Owners Association.

Piardip Joe Johal

A resident of Fremont, California, Mr. Johal is a director of the Bank.  Mr. Johal is an owner-operator of Wendy’s franchises, growing a single unit started in 1999 to 27 units in less than six years. Mr. Johal has been a resident of the East Bay for the last 25 years and was employed by Hewlett Packard from 1983 to 2003 as an Engineering Manager.

Joe Madden

A director of the Bank and a resident of Livermore, California.  Mr.. Madden graduated from Brown University in 1989 with a degree in Organizational Behavioral Management. Joe took the road with his father, John Madden, for two football seasons on the famed "MaddenCruiser". During those two years of travel Joe interned with CBS Sports and experienced an invaluable education with the nation's top rated production team. It was during those long hauls between games that Joe and his father developed the idea of building Northern California's largest full service sound stage, Goal Line Productions. "Goal Line" would serve as John Madden's production home for the numerous national commercial spots he appeared in, as well as the premiere studio for his annual "All-Madden Team" show. Since 1992, Joe, as President of Goal Line, has made it his passion to make the stage Northern California's finest shooting facility. In addition, Joe has gone on to executive produce many corporate, commercial and feature films. In 2006, Joe partnered with his long time employee, Erik Heiser, to form two separate production entities, "The Licorice Tree" and "Target: Earth Pictures": the former, producing exclusively commercials for television, and the latter, a feature film development company. To date Joe has executive produced two films; one shot locally entitled "Dead & Breakfast" (comedy/horror genre) and the other "The Cooler" which garnered one Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor (Alec Baldwin).

Richard A. Saso

A resident of Danville, California, Mr. Saso is a director of the Bank. Mr. Saso is a Certified Public Accountant, an investment advisor registered by the Securities and Exchange Commission and a NASD broker dealer. He has more than 34 years of experience in accounting and has managed his own C.P.A. firm for over 27 years. Mr. Saso serves as an expert witness and provides litigation support for local attorneys. Mr. Saso became a broker dealer and financial advisor to assist his clients in financial planning. Mr. Saso specializes in income and estate tax preparation and planning, small business accounting, financial statement analysis, investment, and retirement and financial planning.

James "Jim" Snell

A member of the loan committee, Mr. Snell is a 1959 graduate of the Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley with a bachelor of science degree in banking and finance.  He is also a graduate of the Boalt school of law with a Juris Doctor in 1965.  Between degrees Jim served on active duty in the United States Marine Corps and retired after 32 years of service as the rank of Colonel.  After law school Jim was a deputy district attorney for Alameda County before commencing a 30 year  career as a trial lawyer in Fremont with the firm of King, Snell, Mildwurm and Fox.  Jim taught for 32 years at Ohlone Community College in Fremont with 11 of those years as the head of the administration of Justice Department.  Jim retired in 1999 and now finds time to read for the blind, referees football, served two years on the Alameda Grand Jury, and is active in community theatre.  Jim spent 11 years as a little league coach and manager.  He is a past president of the Fremont/Newark YMCA, the Washington Township Bay Association and the Mission Valley Officials Association.  He is a Banker’s Compliance Group certified Bank Director and a graduate of the FDIC Director’s College.  He manages a $12 million real estate portfolio and a $6 million pension and portfolio sharing plan.  Jim is a native of California and has resided in Fremont since 1971.