Simone Lagomarsino - Hawthorne Financial Corporation (hthr)

Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> May 20, 2002

Simone Lagomarsino is the President and CEO of Heritage Oaks Bancorp, the parent company of Heritage Oaks Bank. She came to Heritage Oaks in September 2011 with more than 20 years of experience in executive positions at financial institutions in Southern California. She has spent most of her career repositioning organizations and turning them into top-performing companies. During her tenure with Heritage Oaks, the bank has achieved the best financial performance in its 30-year history. Heritage Oaks Bank is $1.9 billion in assets and is the largest community bank headquartered on California’s Central Coast. The bank operates 12 branches and two loan production offices from Paso Robles to Oxnard. In 2013, she was honored by American Banker magazine as one of the top three community bankers in the United States. She currently serves on the boards of directors of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, the Alzheimer’s Association’s California Central Coast Chapter, Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center and the Foundation for the Performing Arts Center of San Luis Obispo. She earned an MBA with an emphasis in finance from Claremont Graduate School and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Claremont McKenna College. Profile

TWST: Could we start out with a brief historical sketch of
Hawthorne Financial Corporation and an overview of what you are

doing now?

Ms. Lagomarsino: Hawthorne has been in existence for 50

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Simone Lagomarsino – Hawthorne Financial Corporation (hthr)

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