Craig A. Carlson

Mr. Carlson is a Director of PacWest Bancorp and Pacific Western Bank and is the Chairperson of their respective Risk Committees and a member of each of their respective Audit and Executive Committees. Mr. Carlson is currently a self-employed, financial institution consultant and California real estate broker. He was formerly a bank regulator for 36 years and has over 26 years of experience supervising a bank examination staff of over 125 individuals. Mr. Carlson was senior deputy commissioner and chief examiner of the Banking Program for the California Department of Financial Institutions (“DFI”), currently known as the California Department of Business Oversight, from March 2007 until his retirement in June 2010. In this position, he was responsible for the supervision and regulation of all state chartered commercial and industrial banks as well as other institutions and he served as a key advisor to the Commissioner of the DFI. Previously, he held positions for the DFI as senior deputy commissioner and deputy commissioner for the San Diego/Orange County Region for the DFI. Mr. Carlson has been a faculty member of the California Banking School and is an active member of the Conference of State Bank Supervisors where he presently serves as a member of its Accreditation Review team.