Santa Cruz County Bank Promotes Heather La Fontaine to Chief Administrative Officer

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Feb 09, 2015, 03:30 ET

SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Feb. 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Santa Cruz County Bank (OTCQX: SCZC), a locally owned and operated full-service bank headquartered in Santa Cruz County, today announced the promotion of Heather La Fontaine to Chief Administrative Officer. Ms. La Fontaine joined the Bank in 2006 as Risk Management Officer and has been responsible for administering the Bank's Human Resources, Compliance and Risk Management programs. Since joining the Bank she has been appointed Senior Vice President, and during her tenure, has served as its Enterprise Risk Manager, holding Officer positions responsible for Regulatory Compliance, BSA/AML, OFAC/FinCEN, S.A.F.E. Act, CRA and Human Resources management.

In her new position as Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, Ms. La Fontaine will continue to manage Human Resources, Risk Management, Compliance and Legal matters with added responsibilities for Central Operations, eBanking and Branch Operations.

In addition to her Business Administration degree with honors in Finance and Psychology attained at California State University, Stanislaus, Ms. La Fontaine took graduate courses in substantive law application, criminal law, torts and contract law at Lincoln School of Law. Most recently, she is a graduate of Pacific Coast Banking School (PCBS), a National Graduate School of Banking at the University of Washington in Bellevue, Washington and a graduate of the ABA National Compliance School. Ms. La Fontaine has over 18 years of banking experience.

Ms. La Fontaine was born in Santa Cruz and now lives in the Santa Cruz mountains with her husband and two children.

ABOUT SANTA CRUZ COUNTY BANK
Santa Cruz County Bank, founded in 2004, is a locally owned and operated community bank with offices located in Aptos, Capitola, Santa Cruz, Scotts Valley and Watsonville. The Bank offers a variety of competitive deposit and lending solutions for businesses and individuals, including business loans and lines of credit, commercial real estate finance, agricultural loans, SBA and USDA government guaranteed loans, credit cards, merchant services, remote deposit capture, and online services, including bill payment and cash management. The Bank's SBA Department has been recognized as a top SBA lender in Santa Cruz County for 7a and 504 loans for the past eight years.

For more information, visit www.sccountybank.com. Santa Cruz County Bank's common stock is listed Over the Counter (OTCQX) under the stock symbol SCZC.

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