Phoenix, Az., USA - Western Alliance Bank announced the promotions of several senior executives.
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Chief Credit Officer Tim Bruckner has been promoted to the newly created role of Chief Banking Officer for Regional Banking.
Mr. Bruckner will be responsible for oversight of the company’s regional banking divisions, including Alliance Bank of Arizona, Bridge Bank, Bank of Nevada, First Independent Bank and Torrey Pines Bank, as well as certain specialty lending business lines.
Mr. Bruckner will continue as a member of the bank’s senior operating committee.
Deputy Chief Credit Officer Robert Nemon will serve as interim chief credit officer and will join the company’s senior operating committee.
Steve Curley, who has spearheaded the growth of the bank’s mortgage warehouse and homeowner association business lines, has been promoted to the newly created role of Chief Banking Officer for National Business Lines.
In this role, Mr. Curley will have direct oversight of most of the bank’s national business lines, including its note finance, MSR lending, public/nonprofit finance, equipment finance, and several other finance units and new business initiatives.
Mr. Curley also will have increased responsibility for developing and executing the bank’s overall residential mortgage strategy.
Randall Theisen, who joined the bank as its first general counsel in 2006, will retire from his current role of Chief Legal Officer (CLO) in the first quarter of 2023.
Following his retirement as CLO, Mr. Theisen will remain with the bank in the newly created position of Head of Corporate Affairs, overseeing the company’s corporate communications, marketing, government relations and community relations functions.
Western Alliance Bank Chief Risk Officer Emily Nachlas has been named an executive officer of the bank. ■
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