SANTA CRUZ, Calif.,
Feb. 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Santa
Cruz County Bank (OTCQX: SCZC), a locally owned and operated
full-service bank headquartered in Santa
Cruz County, today announced the promotion of Heather La Fontaine to Chief Administrative
Officer. Ms. La Fontaine joined the Bank in 2006 as Risk
Management Officer and has been responsible for administering the
Bank's Human Resources, Compliance and Risk Management programs.
Since joining the Bank she has been appointed Senior Vice
President, and during her tenure, has served as its Enterprise Risk
Manager, holding Officer positions responsible for Regulatory
Compliance, BSA/AML, OFAC/FinCEN, S.A.F.E. Act, CRA and Human
Resources management.
In her new position as Senior Vice President and Chief
Administrative Officer, Ms. La Fontaine will continue to manage
Human Resources, Risk Management, Compliance and Legal matters with
added responsibilities for Central Operations, eBanking and Branch
Operations.
In addition to her Business Administration degree with honors in
Finance and Psychology attained at California
State University, Stanislaus, Ms. La Fontaine took graduate
courses in substantive law application, criminal law, torts and
contract law at Lincoln School of Law. Most recently, she is a
graduate of Pacific Coast Banking School (PCBS), a National
Graduate School of Banking at the University
of Washington in Bellevue,
Washington and a graduate of the ABA National Compliance
School. Ms. La Fontaine has over 18 years of banking experience.
Ms. La Fontaine was born in Santa
Cruz and now lives in the Santa
Cruz mountains with her husband and two
children.
ABOUT SANTA CRUZ COUNTY
BANK
Santa Cruz County Bank, founded in 2004, is a locally
owned and operated community bank with offices located in
Aptos, Capitola, Santa
Cruz, Scotts Valley and
Watsonville. The Bank offers a
variety of competitive deposit and lending solutions for businesses
and individuals, including business loans and lines of credit,
commercial real estate finance, agricultural loans, SBA and USDA
government guaranteed loans, credit cards, merchant services,
remote deposit capture, and online services, including bill payment
and cash management. The Bank's SBA Department has been recognized
as a top SBA lender in Santa Cruz
County for 7a and 504 loans for the past eight years.
For more information, visit www.sccountybank.com. Santa Cruz
County Bank's common stock is listed Over the Counter (OTCQX) under
the stock symbol SCZC.
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