Business Bank of Nevada Announces Hiring of Longtime Banker Celeste Putt to Manage Its Branch in North Las Vegas.

LAS VEGAS, Oct. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Business Bank of Nevada (BULLETIN BOARD: BBNV) today announced that it has hired Celeste Putt, a well-known banking professional in southern Nevada, to be vice president and manager of its fairly new full-service branch in North Las Vegas. With over 20 years of banking and financial management experience, Putt takes over as the head of this branch facility located at 4310 West Cheyenne and the northwest corner of Valley Drive. (For an image of Putt, go to http://www.bbnv.com/celesteputt.php.)

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Prior to joining Business Bank, Putt worked for Nevada State Bank for the past 10 years as an assistant vice president and cash management sales officer. In this role, Putt was responsible for selling and servicing the bank's cash management products, including the new and highly successful remote capture product. Business Bank is currently working on rolling out its own version of a remote capture product that Putt will help develop and promote when it's up and running next year.

Putt's professional tenure also includes working for U.S. Bank for seven years serving in a variety of positions, including corporate banking relationship/cash management sales officer, corporate branch manager, and corporate branch operations supervisor. She also worked for Nevada National Bank for three years as a branch operations assistant. Putt spent a few years working outside of the banking industry as an escrow assistant for First American Title Company and as an office manager for Inn Zone Operations.

"We are very excited to have Celeste join our growing team of highly qualified and experienced branch managers in southern Nevada," said Paul Workman, executive vice president and director of retail sales for Business Bank. "Celeste has a proven track record that will clearly help us gain a ...