WAYNE WARD
Senior Vice President & Regional Manager,
Greater Southern California
California Bank & Trust
California Bank & Trust’s Wayne Ward is a well-known industry expert who has broad and extensive leadership experience in financial services in both government and private sectors. He has more than 35 years of commercial banking and leadership experience in driving revenue growth and profitability in sales and commercial
banking organizations. He has spent his entire career in the financial services industry, starting out as a national bank examiner with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in the US Treasury Department. This role gave him strategic insight and a deep understanding of the industry.
Ward joined California Bank & Trust in 2007. After spending one year managing the Long Beach office, Ward was promoted to manage the Greater Southern California West Region in November 2008, where he manages 14 business banking offices throughout West Los Angeles, the South Bay, and the San Fernando and Santa Clarita Valleys.
