Hanmi Financial Corporation and Hanmi Bank Appoints Thomas J. Williams to the Board of Directors of Company and Bank
June 07, 2016 at 09:10 pm
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On June 7, 2016, Hanmi Financial Corporation and Hanmi Bank announced that the Boards of Directors of the Company and Bank had appointed Mr. Thomas J. Williams to the Board of Directors of Company and Bank, effective June 1, 2016. Mr. Williams, 53, is a 30 year veteran of the bank regulatory and banking industry. Mr. Williams brings extensive experience across a broad range of risk and lending activities. Prior to his retirement in May 2015, Mr. Williams was at BofI Federal Bank as Senior Vice President and Chief Risk Officer, overseeing all risk and control-related functions. Before BofI, he served as Executive Director of Commercial Credit Review with Capital One, and Director of Regulatory Relations with Silicon Valley Bank. Earlier in his career, Mr. Williams spent five years as Principal Examiner at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and ten years as a National Bank Examiner with the OCC. Mr. Williams earned his B.S. in Economics from the University of South Dakota.
Hanmi Financial Corporation is a holding company of Hanmi Bank (the Bank). The Bank serves multi-ethnic communities through its network of 35 full-service branches and eight loan production offices in California, Texas, Illinois, Virginia, New Jersey, New York, Colorado, Washington and Georgia. The Bank is a California state-chartered financial institution. The Bank specializes in real estate, commercial, small business administration (SBA) and trade finance lending to small and middle market businesses. The Bank originates loans for its own portfolio and for sale in the secondary market. Its lending activities include real estate loans (commercial property, construction and residential property), commercial and industrial loans (commercial term, commercial lines of credit and international), equipment lease financing and SBA loans. The Bank maintains a small construction portfolio for multifamily and commercial and industrial properties within its market areas.