WCBO West Coast Bancorp (MM)

OLYMPIA, Wash., March 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Lee Sherman has been named Assistant Vice President-Commercial Banking Relationship Manager for West Coast Bank's Puget Sound region. He will provide business lending services from the company's West Olympia office. Sherman has worked in the Thurston County market for the past several years and in banking as a real estate lender, branch manager and business lender since 1990. He is a member of the Thurston County Chamber of Commerce and the Lacey Chamber of Commerce. He graduated from Pacific Lutheran University with a Bachelor of Business Administration-Finance and from the Pacific Coast Banking School at the University of Washington. West Coast Bank serves clients with nine Puget Sound locations; Olympia Downtown, West Olympia, Lacey, Shelton, Hoodsport, Chehalis, Hawks Prairie, Tukwila and Centralia. West Coast Bancorp, (NASDAQ:WCBO), one of Oregon Business Magazine's 100 Best Companies to Work For, is a Northwest bank holding company with $2.6 billion in assets, operating 63 locations in Oregon and Washington. The company combines the sophisticated products and expertise of larger banks with the local decision making, market knowledge and customer service of a community bank. For more information, visit the Company's web site at http://www.wcb.com/. DATASOURCE: West Coast Bancorp CONTACT: Tim Dowling, Regional President of West Coast Bancorp, +1-360-456-7758 Web site: http://www.wcb.com/

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