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Mr. Franko�s career in banking and financial services has ranged from management responsibility for more than 400 employees in a 35-branch bank in Arizona to positions as the Chief Financial Officer of a NYSE listed bank holding company a $4 Billion bank and one of the largest international real estate development projects in the world headquartered in London England. He has been the founding President of four banks including one headquartered in the European Community and three headquartered in California. He has established and been a member or the Chairman of many bank and mutual fund boards and committees including the Audit Committee Executive Committee Asset Liability Committee Loan Committee and Risk Management Committee. He was the managing officer of one of the fastest growing SBA lending groups in California and was the founding CEO of a bank chartered to provide almost exclusively SBA-guaranteed loans. He has also been the CEO of two banks specializing in Trust services one a $10 Billion California-chartered trust company. The other was one of the fastest growing national trust banks in the US at the time. He is well respected in the area of wealth management and wealth distribution planning. Mr. Franko was a member of the Board of the California Bankers Association and the Chairman of its Investment and Wealth Management Committee.
In addition to a number of management roles Mr. Franko has served as the Chief Investment Officer of a national bank and has managed investment portfolios of substantial size with various successful investment strategies. He has passed the securities license exams as a Principal for General Securities Options Municipal Securities and as a Financial/Operations Principal. He is married and has two young daughters. He has lived in Manhattan Beach CA for more than eight years where he is active in the local community.
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