Opus Bank announced that Jim Strickland has joined Opus as Senior Managing Director – Commercial Banking. Strickland, a 29-year banking veteran, is responsible for expanding Opus’ commercial and corporate client base in the San Fernando Valley and Santa Clarita Valley regions of Los Angeles County.

Jim Haney, Executive Vice President, Head of Commercial Banking, stated, “We are proud to have Jim join Opus’ Commercial Banking team to expand our Southern California Commercial Banking client coverage into the San Fernando Valley and Santa Clarita Valley regions. Jim is a deeply experienced banker with a long history of considerable success in these markets, providing strategic advice and tailored relationship-based commercial banking and treasury management products, services, and solutions to middle market companies, entrepreneurs, and business owners.” Haney added, “We look forward to Jim’s contribution as Opus continues to grow its relationship-based commercial client base in the major metropolitan markets up and down the West Coast.”

Strickland joins Opus Bank most recently from City National Bank (CNB), a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), where he served as Senior Vice President and Relationship Manager – Commercial Banking since 2015. While at City National Bank, Strickland was responsible for developing and maintaining a portfolio of middle market commercial clients in the San Fernando Valley and Santa Clarita Valley regions of Los Angeles County. From 2010 to 2015, Strickland served as Senior Vice President, Business Banking at Citibank, where he provided tailored relationship-based commercial banking and treasury management products, services, and solutions to middle market companies. From 2003 to 2010, Mr. Strickland served at U.S. Bank, where he led a team responsible for growing commercial banking loan production in the San Fernando and Santa Clarita Valleys. Strickland began his career in 1989 with Security Pacific Bank.