Wes Colley

WES COLLEY is President and Chief Executive Officer of
AmericanWest Bancorporation. He spent 10 years with Bank of
America in California, which gave him an excellent education in
banking. Mr. Colley was with a small community bank in Washington
state for three years. He then founded Bank of the West in Walla
Walla, Washington, and was Chief Executive Officer of that bank
for 23 years before selling to the current bank three years ago.