Jason Pendergist — Executive VP & Head of Real Estate Banking at Banc of California

Mr. Jason Pendergist has been an Executive Vice President and Head of Real Estate Banking at Banc of California, N.A. since September 4, 2017. Mr. Pendergist has been Executive Vice President and Head of Real Estate Banking at Banc of California, Inc., since September 6, 2017. He has nearly 20 years of financial, strategic and sales management experience. He began his career as a business consultant before moving into banking. He then spent more than twelve years at JP Morgan Chase serving in a variety of roles within the Commercial Term Lending business. He served as Executive Vice President and President of Consumer & Commercial Banking at Luther Burbank Corporation until September 14, 2017. At JP Morgan Chase, Mr. Pendergist served as Senior Vice President overseeing the California market and later as Managing Director and Head of the Eastern Region. He returned to California when he joined Luther Burbank Savings as Executive Vice President and Chief Lending Officer in July 2014 and was soon promoted to President ' Consumer & Commercial Banking in October 2015. He was responsible for the leadership and oversight of all consumer and commercial lending functions, lending operations, branch and online banking, capital markets and marketing. Mr. Pendergist serves as Chairman of the Commercial Real Estate Council for the American Bankers Association and is Vice-Chairman of Miracles for Kids. Mr. Pendergist holds MBA in Finance at the Leeds School of Business.