How do the custom financial solutions and personalized customer service provided
by Bank of Santa Barbara meet the needs of the unique markets it serves?
At Bank of Santa Barbara, our lending activities are focused on local, small-tomedium-
sized businesses and professional firms. This has proven to be a successful strategy
as this market segment has remained relatively sound and steady. Our experienced
team of banking professionals continues to work hard to develop new client relationships
that bring additional low-cost core deposits to the bank.
We are able to customize financial solutions and provide a high level of personalized,
professional service for our clients. We have had excellent success in deploying
our new remote deposit product and we were one of the first banks in our region
to introduce this new technology to the local businesses in our community. We are
one of only a few local banks that offer the CDARS® product. Our cash management
products are state-of-the-art and our clients have been extremely pleased with the
capabilities of these services.
During 2008, Tom Caesar was elected as chairman of the board. Born and raised in
Santa Barbara, he is a graduate of Santa Barbara High School and the University
of California, Santa Barbara, and is a prominent local businessman. We pride ourselves
on being a local bank with local experience. We are very pleased to have a true
native son to lead our board of directors, sharing his business experience and providing
us with great leadership at the Bank of Santa Barbara and in the community.
— Andy L. Clark, President & CEO