Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> March 31, 2003

Tim Cassels – Americanwest Bancorporation

TIM CASSELS has been the Chief Financial Officer at AmericanWest Bank since December 2002. He has worked in the finance and accounting area of banking for nine years. He graduated with honors from Whitworth College, where he received a degree in Business Management, and from Washington State University, where he received his MBA. Profile
TWST: Could we begin with a brief historical sketch of

Americanwest Bancorporation and a picture of things as they are

now?

Mr. Cassels: The company started as United Security Bancorp in

1974