Western Banker November/December 2022

In 2022, she was selected by Silicon Valley Business Journal as a Woman of Influence and was recognized as a CFO of the Year and as a “Woman Who Means Business” by the Sacramento Business Journal . She received the Nancy Hotchkiss Woman of Impact Award by Commercial Real Estate Women.

Steve Miller is President and CEO of Fresno First Bank. Miller brings more than 25 years of commercial banking, retail banking, operations, and sales and marketing experience to the board. He graduated from Columbia University and began his career with MBNA Ameri ca in its management development program, where he held a variety of roles during his 12-year tenure. Miller then moved overseas to Taiwan and worked with GE Money in a joint venture. He spent several years with HSBC Indonesia running their small business segment and was later recruited to join Alliance Financial Group in Malaysia, a local community bank in Malaysia focused on the small busi ness segment. He spent six years in Malaysia overseeing Group Business Banking, which included corporate, commercial, small business, and micro-financing. The bank was rated as the best small business in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East for two years during his tenure.

Steve Miller President & CEO, Fresno First Bank

After returning to the United States in the summer of 2015, Miller was recruited to join Fresno First Bank as the President and CEO, where he has been since October 2015. During his tenure, the bank has been consistently ranked as one of the top-performing community banks in the country. Miller is married with four children. He is active in the community and serves on the boards of the Fresno Mission and the Fresno County Boys and Girls Club.

Steve Jones took the helm as president and CEO of Murphy Bank in January of 2022, immediately following the successful merger of Suncrest Bank into Citizens Business Bank. Jones was named COO of Suncrest Bank in December 2016 after the successful merger of Security First Bank with Suncrest Bank. He had formed Security First Bank of Fresno, Calif., beginning in 2005 while president of the Grange Bank in Columbus, Ohio. Upon the sale of The Grange Bank in 2006, Jones moved his family back home to Fresno after being away for 25 years and opened Security First Bank in February of 2007 with the help of the local business principals who were looking for a commu nity bank that would serve their needs. He began a career in Public Accounting in Portland, Ore., in 1988 and took the leap into banking with First Interstate Bank Oregon in 1994.

Steve Jones President & CEO, Murphy Bank

Jones has been married to Pat since 1981 and they have three adult children and two grandchildren, all of whom live within 10 minutes of them. They are truly blessed.

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