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John E. Rossell III, President and Chief Executive Officer,

of Lafayette, California, is the President and Chief Executive Officer and a director of the Bank. Mr. Rossell also chairs the Bank's Executive Management Committee.

Mr. Rossell has over 22 years of commercial banking experience, 15 of those in the position of President and Chief Executive Officer. Most recently, he was the founding President and Chief Executive Officer of Santa Cruz County Bank.

Mr. Rossell served as President of Protective Financial Insurance, Inc., under its DBA Benmark West. This privately-held corporation provides non-qualified benefits consulting and insurance-based funding strategies for directors and senior executives of financial institutions in nine western states.

Mr. Rossell was the founding President and Chief Executive Officer of Heritage Commerce Corp and Heritage Bank of Commerce, in San Jose, California.

Prior to establishing Heritage Bank of Commerce, Mr. Rossell was the Senior Credit Officer for Silicon Valley Bank where he served as Chairman of the Credit Committee for the Commercial Division. Mr. Rossell was successively the President and Chief Executive Officer of three subsidiary banks of Mark Twain Bancshares, headquartered in St. Louis Missouri, including its lead bank, Mark Twain National Bank.

Following his employment with Mark Twain Bancshares, Mr. Rossell was a Senior Consultant with the St. Louis accounting firm of Brown, Smith and Wallace, providing merger and acquisition and financial planning services for middle market companies.

Prior to joining Mark Twain Bancshares, Mr. Rossell was employed by Wells Fargo Bank where he held successive positions as Vice President in the San Francisco Corporate Banking Group and as President of Wells Fargo and Company, Canada, Ltd., a Toronto-based commercial finance subsidiary.

Mr. Rossell holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Virginia and a Masters of Business Administration from the Darden School of the University of Virginia.