Robert McAuslan — Chief Credit Officer and EVP at Western Alliance Bank

Mr. Robert McAuslan has been the Chief Credit Officer & Executive Vice President at Western Alliance Bancorporation and Western Alliance Bank since February 2011 and December 2013 respectively. Mr. McAuslan served as Senior Credit Executive for the western U.S. markets with Mutual of Omaha Bank since November 2008. From 2000 to 2008, he served as Executive Vice President/Senior Credit Officer for western U.S. markets for BBVA/Compass Bank. Earlier, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Credit Officer for H.F. Ahmanson/Home Savings of America from 1996 to 1999. He served as Chief Credit Officer and Executive Vice President at Community Bancorp. since September 2008. Mr. McAuslan served as Executive Vice President of H. F. Ahmanson & Company and Home Savings of America FSB, a subsidiary of H. F. Ahmanson & Company since August, 1997. He served as First Vice President of H. F. Ahmanson & Company and its subsidiary from January 1997 to August 1997. Prior thereto, he served as President of CitiBank Arizona from October 1993 to December 1996 and its Senior Vice President from October 1986 to October 1993. He has more than 35 years of financial industry experience, primarily in credit policy, risk management and lending to middle market real estate and commercial and industrial borrowers. Most recently, Mr. McAuslan served as Executive Vice President and Senior Credit Officer at Compass Bank in Phoenix, Arizona. While at Compass Bank, he had been responsible for directing the underwriting and loan approval processes for new credit originations, managing the risk of a diversified $3 billion portfolio in three states and overseeing the special assets/REO functions for the Western region. Mr. McAuslan served as Chief Credit Officer for Home Savings of America. He has been a Director of Western Alliance Bank since January 2016. He also spent 16 years in a variety of lending and risk management functions for Citibank/CitiCorp. in New York and Phoenix. Mr. McAuslan obtained his Master of Business Administration from the Wharton Graduate Division of the University of Pennsylvania and his Bachelor of Science from Northeastern University's College of Business Administration.