Mr. Christopher Warmuth serves as President at City National Bank. He is responsible for City National's corporate banking, commercial banking and private client services as well as its entertainment, real estate and branch banking activities. Mr. Warmuth serves on the bank's four-member Strategy and Planning Committee, as well as its Executive Committee. He also is a member of the boards of directors of both the bank and its parent company, City National Corporation. Mr. Warmuth joined City National in June 2002 as executive vice president and chief credit officer, overseeing credit policy, administration and special assets. He was named president in May 2005. During his 30-year banking career, Mr. Warmuth has held a variety of positions in business and real estate lending, corporate banking and consumer credit as well as risk management. Before joining City National, he was chief credit officer of Sanwa Bank California, which later merged into Bank of the West. He served as head of Sanwa's special assets division for four years and was a member of the company's management committee. Mr. Warmuth earned a master's degree in business administration and a bachelor's degree in finance from the University of Southern California.