East West Bank

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East West Bank
Type	Public (NASDAQ: EWBC)
Founded	Los Angeles, CA (1973)
Headquarters	Pasadena, CA
Key people	Dominic Ng, Chairman, President & CEO
Industry	Finance and Insurance
Products	Banking
Revenue	$694.4 million USD (▲ $143.4M FY 2006)
Employees	1,243
Website	www.eastwestbank.com

For the Philippines-based bank, see East West Bank (Philippines).

East West Bank (Chinese: 華美銀行) is a Chinese American bank in California. It has 71 branch locations in northern and southern California, Houston, and a representative office in Beijing. East West Bank is headquartered in Pasadena, California. It is the second largest bank headquartered in Los Angeles, after City National Bank.

East West Bank has 10 branches inside the supermarket chain 99 Ranch Market.

Its spokeswoman is figure skater Michelle Kwan. East West Bank also purchased the naming rights to the East West Ice Palace, an ice rink arena in Artesia, California. [1]

[edit] Management

Dominic Ng - Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer

Julia S. Gouw - Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President, Director

Douglas P. Krause - Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary

Wellington Chen - Executive Vice President, Director of Corporate Banking Division

Kwok-Yin Cheng - Executive Vice President, Director of International Trade Banking

Donald S. Chow - Executive Vice President, Director of Commercial Lending

Robert L. Dingle - Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer

William H. Fong - Executive Vice President, Head of Northern California Commercial Lending

Agatha Fung - Executive Vice President, Head of International Banking

Michael W. Lai - Executive Vice President, Director of Retail Operations

[edit] External links

• East West Bank homepage