LAKE OSWEGO, Ore., Dec. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Today West
Coast Bancorp (NASDAQ: WCBO) Chair Lloyd D.
Ankeny announced that David A.
Dietzler will become a member of the company's Board of
Directors effective January 1,
2012.
David is a certified public accountant and graduated from the
University of North Dakota with
bachelor's and master's degrees. He built his career at one of the
world's largest audit, tax and advisory services firms—KPMG LLP in
Portland—and retired as managing partner in 2005 after 37 years of
service.
He is currently a member of the Portland General Electric
Company Board of Directors where he chairs the audit committee. He
has also served the Portland
community in the past as a board member of the Northwest Business
for Culture and the Arts, Oregon Symphony Association and Oregon
Symphony Foundation.
West Coast Bancorp is a publicly held, Northwest bank holding
company headquartered in Oregon
with $2.5 billion in assets, and the
parent company of West Coast Bank and West Coast Trust Company,
Inc. West Coast Bank operates 60 branches in Oregon and Washington. The Company
serves clients who seek the resources, sophisticated products and
expertise of larger financial institutions, along with the local
decision-making, market knowledge, and customer service orientation
of a community bank. The Company offers a broad range of
banking, investment, fiduciary and trust services. For more
information, please visit the Company web site at www.wcb.com.
SOURCE West Coast Bancorp