Leadership

Steven Callaway

Chairman of the Board

Steve Callaway is CEO of the Pleasant Hill based commercial insurance brokerage WestCallawayStotka, Inc. and serves as Chairman of the Board of Alta Alliance Bank. He has run a commercial insurance firm since 1986 and before that he worked for Arthur Anderson & Co. He is a Certified Public Accountant and chartered property casualty underwriter. Callaway earned a B.B.A.. degree in Accounting from the University of San Diego, where he was a member of the business honors society Beta Gamma Sigma and the accounting honors society Beta Alpha Psi. He graduated winning the Franklin Award, in recognition as the outstanding senior in his class. His community involvement includes Mt. Diablo Regional YMCA, Holy Names University, where he is a trustee, and the Sequoyah Country Club, which he served as President and Member of the Board from 1998 to 2000.

Sedrick Tydus

President & CEO

An organizing co- founder of Alta Alliance Bank, Sedrick Tydus has decades of experience in management, marketing and business strategy in the financial services and online industries. He is a veteran of Wells Fargo & Company, where he spent 12 years in senior management. After a brief leadership stint at Bank of America, he joined E-loan to run its fastest growing division -- its home equity division.

Tydus holds a BA degree from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Stanford University. He is on the Board of Directors of Oasis High School in Oakland, and is a past board member of the Oakland Schools Foundation and Friends of Oakland Parks and Recreation. His past community service includes such organizations as Goodwill Industries of the East Bay, the Urban League and East Bay College Fund.

Glen Lezama

Chief Credit Officer

Glen has more than 20 years of experience assisting a wide variety of privately held local businesses with custom financing solutions for expansion, real property acquisition and investment in capital equipment. Until he joined Alta Alliance Bank in 2006, he had been the Chief Credit Officer for Diablo Valley Bank. Prior to that he was a relationship manager at Bay Bank of Commerce in San Ramon and, immediately prior, was commercial loan manager for California Bank and Trust's San Francisco Region. From 1994 to 1999, Glen managed Union Bank of California's SBA function for Northern and Central California. During his banking career, he has managed traditional branch bank offices as well as business banking centers. He holds an undergraduate degree from the Queen's Royal College, Trinidad and Tobago, and is a graduate of the Pacific Coast Banking School at the University of Washington. He has served on the boards of various community-based service organizations, several tasks forces appointed by the Mayor of San Francisco and as President of the Board of Huckleberry Youth Programs.