Business Bank of Nevada Names Former Nevada Governor, Prominent CPA and Real Estate Professionals to its Board of Directors.Business Editors LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 6, 2000 Business Bank of Nevada today announced that it has appointed four prominent Nevadans to its board of directors, including former Nevada Governor Bob List, Steven Coffey, managing partner of Coffey & Rader CPA Firm, and Thomas Johnson, president of Gold Dust Commercial Associates of Carson City. "We are very excited to have these well-known and very accomplished individuals join our board of directors," said Jason Awad, chairman of the board of directors for Business Bank of Nevada. "Today's announcement further diversifies our board and provides us with a group of individuals who represent the type of small-to-medium size businesses we service. List's and Johnson's addition to the board also gives us a stronger presence in northern Nevada, where we will be expanding our branch network in the near future." Awad added that with the three new board members, along with the other 10 existing members, Business Bank clearly has one of the most prominent and highly qualified bank boards of directors in Nevada. Governor List exemplifies that banking experience, having served 13 years on First Interstate Bank of Nevada's board of directors. Governor List also served as head of Nevada from 1978 to 1982. Prior to becoming governor of the state, List was State Attorney General from 1970 to 1978. He also served as District Attorney of Carson City from 1966 to 1970. List is currently chief executive officer of the Robert List Company and is Of Counsel in the Law Firm of Beckley, Singleton, Jemison, Cobeaga and List. He's a board member for a number of companies, including the Venetian Resort Hotel and Casino, Clark and Sullivan Constructors, Cole Industries and Game Data Inc. List remains very active in civic and community service, serving as a member of the Governors Leadership Council on Drug Policy, and a member of the board of directors for the Great Basin National Park Great Basin National Park National preserve, eastern Nevada, U.S. Made a national park in 1986, the area was previously part of the Humboldt National Forest. It has an area of 121 sq mi (313 sq km) and consists of the southern part of the Snake Mountains, a chain that rises Foundation and the Keystone Corporation. He's also a a member of the board of trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. for the Nature Conservancy and Scripps Whittier Institute for Diabetes. List is a graduate of Hastings College of Law and the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). . Coffey is a managing partner in the Coffey & Rader CPA Firm, which he helped form in 1997. Previously, he worked as an accounting manager for Southwest Gas Corporation Southwest Gas Corporation (NYSE: SWX) is an investor owned utility based in Las Vegas, Nevada. The company provides natural gas service to over 1.7 million residential, commercial, and industrial customers in Arizona, Nevada, and parts of northeastern and southeastern from 1988 to 1996 and as a senior accountant and auditor of Fortune 500 Companies for Arthur Andersen & Company from 1984 to 1988. Coffey is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants With over 330,525 CPA members (in August 2006), the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) is the largest professional organization of Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) in the United States of America. (AICPA AICPA See American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). ), the Nevada Society of Certified Public Accountants (NSCPA) and the Institute of Internal Auditors “IIA” redirects here. For IIA in decision theory, see Independence of irrelevant alternatives. Established in 1941, The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) is an international professional association of more than 128,000 members with global headquarters in . He is a graduate of Brigham Young University Brigham Young University, at Provo, Utah; Latter-Day Saints; coeducational; opened as an academy in 1875 and became a university in 1903. It is noted for its law and business schools. , Provo, Utah, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in accounting. Johnson is president of Gold Dust Commercial Associates in Carson City and is the bank's first board member to represent northern Nevada. He is a commercial real estate broker and developer in Carson City. In 1974, he was licensed in Nevada as a real estate agent. Since 1976, his company has worked in the area of commercial real estate serving all of western Nevada. In 1988, he earned the prestigious designation of Certified Commercial Investment Member given by the National Association of Realtors The National Association of Realtors (NAR) is made up of residential and commercial realtors who are brokers, salespeople, property managers, appraisers, and counselors, and others working in the real estate industry. . Over his 26-year career, Johnson has helped hundreds of local and national businesses relocate or expand to northern Nevada. He is actively involved in various community programs such as the Carson City Planning Commission, the Carson City Redevelopment Agency and has served as a board member for the Northern Nevada Development Authority. Johnson has also taught Junior Achievement at the middle school level and he volunteers at the Brewery Arts Center. He is a graduate of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas “UNLV” redirects here. For other uses, see UNLV (disambiguation). The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) is a public, coeducational university located in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, known for its programs in History, Engineering, Environmental Studies, Hotel , with a Bachelor of Science Noun 1. Bachelor of Science - a bachelor's degree in science BS, SB bachelor's degree, baccalaureate - an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies degree in business administration. The bank also announced today that Dr. Lee Brookshire and Dr. Dodd Hyer, two prominent members of the Las Vegas medical profession, are leaving the bank's board of directors. Both Brookshire and Hyer will join the bank's soon-to-be announced advisory board made up of several retired board members and other prominent Nevadans. Business Bank of Nevada, with assets of more than $146 million, is in its fifth year of operation and is one of the fastest-growing independent commercial banks in the state. The bank has four branch offices in Nevada, with three in the Las Vegas area and one in Carson City. The bank has plans to open additional offices statewide in the near future. Business Bank is a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is the federal bank for the twelfth district in the United States. The twelfth district is made up of nine western states—Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington—plus American Samoa, and is listed over the counter (OTC) at ticker symbol BBNV. |
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