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Community West Bancshares COO Blaine Lauhon to retire effective Dec 31, 2026
Community West Bancshares
- Blaine C. Lauhon, EVP and COO of Community West Bank, notified of retirement effective December 31, 2026.
- Lauhon joined in 2017 via the Folsom Lake Bank acquisition; became COO in December 2024.
- He oversaw Operations Division: Loan Ops, Facilities, Technology/Data/Analytics, Project Mgmt, Deposit Ops, Marketing.
- CEO James Kim thanked Lauhon for nearly a decade of leadership; no successor was named in the release.