First Choice Bancorp Announces Company and Bank Officer Appointments - Seite 2

Diana Hanson
Ms. Hanson has served as Interim Chief Financial Officer of First Choice Bancorp since November 2019 and Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer since March 2019. Ms. Hanson joined First Choice from Pacific Western Bank, where she served as Senior Vice President & Director of Accounting Policy. From 1994 to 2020, Ms. Hanson served in a number of leadership positions in the finance departments of Pacific Western Bank, Community Bank of Nevada, Bank of Nevada and Bank of America. She started her career as an auditor with Deloitte in Chicago, Illinois.  Ms. Hanson has over 25 years of experience in corporate accounting and the financial services industry, including an extensive working knowledge of U.S. GAAP, SOX Controls and SEC Reporting. Ms. Hanson is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a B.S. in Accounting from Babson College in Massachusetts.

Mag Wangsuwana
Mag Wangsuwana brings more than 20 years of financial services experience to his new role. Mr. Wangsuwana has been Senior Vice President and Treasurer of First Choice Bank since September 2019. As Treasurer, Mr. Wangsuwana has been responsible for managing all of First Choice’s corporate treasury activities, including budgeting and forecasting, capital planning, liquidity and interest rate risk management, investments, and funding. He joined First Choice from MUFG Union Bank, a diversified financial services holding company, where he held a variety of positions from March 2002 to August 2019, including most recently as a Director in Corporate Treasury focused on asset liability strategy and balance sheet management, and previously in corporate banking focused on financial planning & analysis, corporate real estate focused on strategy, investment management focused on structured securities, and in corporate development focused on mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. Prior to joining MUFG Union Bank, Mag spent 5 years as an investment banker within the Financial Institutions Group at Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch and worked on several financial services-related financing and merger transactions in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Mr. Wangsuwana graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, Haas School of Business with a B.S. degree in 1997. Mag also graduated from the Pacific Coast Banking School in 2006 and remains involved, serving in a variety of capacities, including as a BankSim instructor and more recently as an advisor and grader.