CVB Financial in Ontario, Calif., has hired a new president for its bank.
The $14 billion-asset company said in a Monday press release that Brian Mauntel will join Citizens Business Bank on April 26. He will oversee the bank’s 57 branches, along with its specialty lending teams, sales support groups and wealth management.
“After an extensive search, we are pleased to have found and hired a president with deep leadership experience in financial services and business banking,” David Brager, CVB Financial’s chief executive, said in the release.
“I’m confident that Brian’s broad experience and understanding of financial services and business banking will enable us to put even more emphasis on organically and prudently growing our strong deposit, lending and investment franchises,” Brager added.
Brager became the company’s CEO after Christopher Myers retired in March 2020.
Mauntel, who will take over responsibilities once handled by Myers, has nearly 30 years of banking experience, with a focus commercial and business lending and business operations.
Mauntel recently served as president and chief financial officer at Heartland Bank in Ohio. Before that he spent 23 years at Fifth Third Bank, where he helped oversee and build the bank’s national business banking platform.
“Citizens Business Bank has a long history of outstanding performance,” Mauntel said in the release. “I’m eager to contribute and help enhance this strong record of achievement going forward.”
