First Bank Team Provides Blueprint for OC Habitat Event

With First Bank serving as a Blueprint sponsor for the third consecutive year, executives and business leaders from across Orange County left their suits and smartphones behind to raise $157,250 during the Ninth Annual Leaders Build Day 2017.

Ninety participants took part in the event at a Santa Ana home build site where five homes are being constructed.

Helping raise funds for Leaders Build Day was Susan Montoya, First Bank’s Senior Vice President and Corporate CRA Officer. She served as a Leaders Build Day Committee Member. Montoya is also a Board of Director for Habitat for Humanity of Orange County.

From the First Bank team were Rod Pierce, Business Development Officer; Jim Babbage, Commercial Loan Officer, Religious Lending; Kelly Deutchman, Executive Assistant; Pam Lind Jensen, Real Estate Loan Administrator; and Jennifer San Paolo, Account Relationship Manager, Financial Analyst.

Working together to build affordable homes for low-income families, corporate executives and business leaders also had the chance to network and forge new bonds that may lead to new business opportunities.

During Leaders Build, participants also heard first-hand from a Habitat Orange County homeowner and took part in competitive contests such as hammering and sawing.

In addition to First Bank, Pacific Western Bank, Banc of California, Fluidmasters, Inc., and Big Rentz were the other Blueprint sponsors.

Celebrating 29 years of changing lives and changing communities in Orange County,

Habitat for Humanity is dedicated to ending substandard housing and building strong communities in Orange County. For more information, visit habitatoc.org.

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