
	Mr. Ronald J. Nicolas, Jr., also known as Ron, has been Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President at Banc of California, Inc. since November 2012. Mr. Nicolas has been Chief Financial Officer at Banc of California, National Association, a subsidiary of Banc of California, Inc. since March 18, 2014 and also has been its Executive Vice President since December 30, 2013. He served as the Chief Financial Officer of Residential Credit Solutions, Inc. Mr. Nicolas served as the the Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President at First Pactrust Bancorp, Inc. at Pacific Trust Bank, FSB since November 05, 2012. He was a Consultant to First PacTrust since October 18, 2012. He served as Director of Corporate Development and Executive Vice President of Fremont Investment &amp; Loan from December 2007 to March 7, 2008. Mr. Nicolas served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at each of: Carrington Holding Company, LLC from 2009 to 2012; Residential Credit Holdings, LLC from 2008 to 2009; Fremont Investment and Loan, a $14-billion financial institution from 2005 to 2008; and Aames Investment/Financial Corp. from April 2001 to April 29, 2005. He earlier served in various capacities with KeyCorp, a $20-billion financial institution, including Executive Vice President Group Finance of KeyCorp from 1998 to 2001, Executive Vice President, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer of KeyBank USA from 1994 to 1998, and Vice President of Corporate Treasury from 1993 to 1994. Mr. Nicolas served as Chief Financial Officer, Chief Accounting Officer, Senior Vice President and Treasurer of Signature Group Holdings Inc since July 12, 2007. He served as Executive Vice President and group Finance Executive of the Retail, Internet, Operations, and Information Technology Divisions at KeyCorp. and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Key Bank USA, Keycorp&#39;s consumer finance subsidiary since 1993. He served as Director of Pactrust Bank from July 16, 2013 to December 30, 2013. Mr. Nicolas holds B.S. and M.B.A. degrees in Business Management from Canisius College in 1981 and 1989 respectively.
