Las Vegas Sun

March 28, 2024

City National Bank exec leaving for public service

A top executive at City National Bank says he is leaving his post to take on opportunities in the public service arena.

John Guedry, executive vice president and Nevada Region manager for City National Bank, told colleagues that he would leave the bank by the end of the month.

Larry Charlton, head of operations at City National, will become acting manager in Nevada, bank officials said.

Guedry, who is a member of City National’s Executive Committee, has more than 20 years of experience in the financial services industry, including seven with Business Bank of Nevada, where he was president and CEO. City National acquired Business Bank in 2007.

Guedry’s career included stops at Community Bank of Nevada, Nevada Title Co. and Valley Bank of Nevada. He also founded Real Estate Investment Services, a mortgage brokerage company he owned and operated from 1993 to 1998.

Guedry would not disclose his plans or whether he would run for public office. Several key positions will be up for election in 2010, including U.S. Senate, Congress and Nevada’s constitutional offices.

“It is with mixed emotions and some degree of trepidation that I am announcing my decision to leave City National Bank to pursue other interests in the public service arena,” Guedry said in a letter to colleagues. “We have been through a lot together and I have grown tremendously because of that.”

“All of us are sorry to see him go but he has expressed interest in taking on some new challenges outside banking and we wish him the very best,” said Chris Warmuth, president of City National, in a statement announcing the change.

Federally chartered City National was the No. 17 bank in Southern Nevada in In Business Las Vegas’ 2009 Book of Business Lists at the end of the 2008 fiscal year as ranked by Clark County deposits with $194.7 million.

The bank has branches in Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, Reno, Carson City and Minden.

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