Santa Cruz County Bank Hires Shelly Medina

SANTA CRUZ, CA – June 6, 2022: Santa Cruz County Bank (OTCQX: SCZC), today announced Shelly Medina has joined the Bank as Senior Vice President and Asset-Based Lending Operations Manager. She leads Operations for the Bank’s newly formed Asset-Based Lending Division, to serve clients in Silicon Valley, the Greater Bay Area and throughout California.

Ms. Medina has a 34-year history in banking with extensive experience in asset-based lending, factoring, and loan operations with major regional and national financial institutions. She is well-respected as a team leader and specialist in the area of loan documentation and commercial loan operations. Ms. Medina served as Team Leader for Specialty Finance Loan Documentation and Operations Specialist at Silicon Valley Bank. She served as founding Operations Manager of the Bridge Capital Finance Group at Bridge Bank and more recently held the title of Divisional Loan Production Manager and Senior Vice President for Western Alliance Bank, where she implemented factoring and ABL platforms, wrote loan operations policies, and managed a loan documentation and operations unit as well as a factoring operations unit.  

Commenting on her new appointment, Ms. Medina stated, “I am honored to join Santa Cruz County Bank and to again work with Lee Shodiss in leading an Asset-Based Lending Division for a highly regarded financial institution.”

Krista Snelling, President and CEO commented, “We are so happy to welcome Shelly to our newly-formed Asset-Based Lending Division team. The expertise she brings to her role, and her familiarity with the Silicon Valley region, will benefit the ABL Division, the clients they serve, and the Bank as a whole.”

Ms. Medina attended West Valley College in Saratoga, California. Ms. Medina currently resides in Aptos.

 

ABOUT SANTA CRUZ COUNTY BANK

Santa Cruz County Bank was founded in 2004. It is a top-rated, locally-owned and operated, full-service community bank headquartered in Santa Cruz, California. The bank has branches in Aptos, Capitola, Cupertino, Monterey, Santa Cruz, Scotts Valley and Watsonville. Santa Cruz County Bank is distinguished from "big banks" by its relationship-based service, problem-solving focus and direct access to decision makers. The bank is a leading SBA lender in Santa Cruz County and Silicon Valley and a top USDA lender in the state of California. As a full-service bank, Santa Cruz County Bank offers competitive deposit and lending solutions for businesses and individuals; including business loans, lines of credit, commercial real estate financing, construction lending, agricultural loans, SBA and USDA government guaranteed loans, asset-based lending, credit cards, merchant services, remote deposit capture, mobile and online banking, bill payment and treasury management. True to its community roots, Santa Cruz County Bank has supported regional well-being by actively participating in and donating to local not-for-profit organizations.

 

Santa Cruz County Bank stock is publicly traded on the OTCQX U.S. Premier marketplace under the symbol SCZC. Stock purchase orders may be placed online, through a brokerage firm, or through Market Makers listed in the Investor Relations section of the bank’s website. For more information about Santa Cruz County Bank, visit www.sccountybank.com.

 

MEDIA CONTACT:

 

Mary Anne Carson | Santa Cruz County Bank

Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer

75 River Street | Santa Cruz, CA 95060

d: 831.600.4019 | o: 831.457.5000

w: sccountybank.com | e: mcarson@sccountybank.com

Matthew Swinnerton