Members of the Board of Directors of Community West Bancshares, parent company of Community West Bank, were joined by bank employees in New York City on Friday, Aug. 9, to ring the Nasdaq Stock Market closing bell at 4 p.m. EST in Times Square.

In his remarks prior to the closing bell, Martin Plourd, Community West Bank president/CEO, said 2019 is the 30th anniversary of the bank, and that Community West Bancshares began trading on Nasdaq Nov. 19, 1996.

Robert Bartlein, Jean Blois and John Illgen, all who have been Community West Bancshares Board of Directors members since the bank first opened its doors in August 1989, were on hand to ring the closing bell.

Also attending were bank employees Karen Heisinger, Julie LaBarbera, Yesenia Rosales Avila, Joe Espino, Jason Tarin and Jimmy Madewell.      

Community West Bank is the largest publicly traded and only community bank headquartered and serving California’s Central Coast area of Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties with eight full-service banking branch offices in Goleta, Oxnard, Paso Robles, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Maria, Ventura and Westlake Village.

Founded in 1989, the bank has grown to more than $900 million in assets. Community West Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of Community West Bancshares, a financial services company with headquarters in Goleta. For more information, visit www.CommunityWestBank.com.

— Martin E. Plourd for Community West Bank.