Lynda Nahra

Pacific Western Bank is the 14th largest commercial bank headquartered in California out of 282 financial institutions with $5.1 billion in assets as of June 30, 2010.For nearly 30 years, Pacific Western Bank has served small and medium-sized businesses and their principals throughout California.They have developed a comprehensive suite of products and services to help optimize cash flow and enhance the operating efficiency of customers business. Additionally, they have a broad range of lending solutions to accommodate both short and long-term financing needs. Through its subsidiary BFI Business Finance and its division First Community Financial, Pacific Western also provides working capital financing to growing companies located throughout the United States.Pacific Western Bank is a wholly-owned subsidiary of PacWest Bancorp, a bank holding company traded on NASDAQ under the symbol 'PACW'.

Community West Bancshares (CWBC) was incorporated in the state of California on November 26, 1996, for the purpose of forming a bank holding company. On December 31, 1997, CWBC acquired a 100% interest in Goleta National Bank (GNB). On September 1, 2004, the bank's name was changed to Community West Bank (CWB). CWB is the only subsidiary of CWBC. CWBC provides management and shareholder services to CWB.

Community West Bank, NA (Goleta, California), part of Community West Bancshares, is a company headquartered in Goleta, CA. The firm operates as a nationally chartered commercial bank. It was founded by Jean W. Blois, William R. Peeples, Robert H. Bartlein, James R. Sims and John D. Illgen. Martin E. Plourd is the CEO, in this role since 2011.The company says this about itself: Community West Bank is the largest publicly traded and only community bank headquartered and serving California's Central Coast area of Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties with eight full-service banking branch offices in Goleta, Oxnard, Paso Robles, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Maria, Ventura and Westlake Village. Founded in 1989, the bank has grown to $865 million in assets. Community West Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of Community West Bancshares (NASDAQ: CWBC), a financial services company with headquarters in Goleta, California. In April 2018, Community West was awarded a \"Premier\" rating by The Findley Reports. For 50 years, The Findley Reports has been recognizing the financial performance of banking institutions in California and the Western United States. In making their selections, The Findley Reports focuses on these four ratios: growth, return on beginning equity, net operating income as a percentage of average assets, and loan losses as a percentage of gross loans.