IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nano Banc, a community-based business bank headquartered in Irvine, California, is pleased to announce that James H. Gray and Lynn McKenzie-Tallerico have joined the Board of Directors.
Mr. Gray and Ms. McKenzie-Tallerico bring significant banking and risk management skills to help Nano Banc from the Board level and throughout the organization.
Ms. McKenzie-Tallerico is an experienced bank board director with extensive professional and executive experience. Her career spans over 40 years, primarily within the financial services industry. From 2018, Lynn was a director of First Choice Bancorp (FCBP), a $2.5 billion community bank, and its wholly owned subsidiary, First Choice Bank, until July 2021 when FCBP was sold to Enterprise Financial Services Corporation. From 1996–2018, Lynn was with KPMG LLP, retiring as the National Lead Advisory Partner for Regional and Community Banks, and the Pacific Southwest Region Lead Partner for the Internal Audit, Risk and Compliance practice. Prior to joining KPMG in 1996, Lynn spent 15 years at First Interstate Bank.
While on the Board of FCBP, Lynn served on the Audit Committee, Asset/Liability Committee and Loan Committee. Lynn shared her audit and risk management expertise to help FCBP enhance its processes and policies in these areas. At KPMG LLP, Lynn led the regional Internal Audit, Risk and Compliance practice, and was part of the national practice leadership driving performance for over 1,500 professionals. As the National Lead Advisory Partner for Regional and Community Banks, Lynn helped coordinate all Advisory services to banks up to $50 billion in assets. In these roles, Lynn was responsible for strategy, financial results, resource management and quality, while handling a wide range of regulatory and corporate governance issues.
Jim Gray has a stellar history in banking dating back to 1974, when he co-founded Harbor Bank in Long Beach. Jim served as Chairman of the Board and CEO from 1976 until the sale of Harbor Bank to City National Bank in early 1998. In 1999, Mr. Gray founded Generations Trust Bank and served as Chairman until its business was sold to Union Bank in 2002. In June 2004, Mr. Gray was a founding director and Co-Chairman of Beach Business Bank, which was headquartered in Manhattan Beach, California, with full-service branches in Long Beach and Costa Mesa, until that bank was sold to First PacTrust Bancorp in 2012. From 2014 until it was sold in 2021, Mr. Gray was a director of First Choice Bancorp (FCBP), a $2.5 billion community bank, and its wholly owned subsidiary, First Choice Bank. He was the Chair of the Directors’ Loan Committee, Asset/Liability Committee and the Audit Committee, and help the bank grow from less than $500 million in assets to almost $2.5 billion.
In addition to his experience as a bank executive, Mr. Gray was President of the California Bankers Association from 1985-1986 and was a member of the Board of Directors of the American Bankers Association from 1991-1996. Mr. Gray was one of the founding members of the FDIC’s Advisory Committee on Community Banking, serving from 2009-2012. Mr. Gray is an active member of the Long Beach community, where he was the founding Chairman of the Aquarium of the Pacific, a past President of the Chamber of Commerce, the Port of Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners, and Chairman of the United Way. From 1990 to 1999, Mr. Gray served as a member of the Board of Trustees for the California State University system.
Nano Banc welcomes Mr. Gray and Ms. McKenzie-Tallerico and looks forward to working with them.
Contacts
Mark Troncale, President, Nano Banc
markt@nanobanc.com
Website: www.nanobanc.com
