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Cathy Reines

President and Chief Executive Officer

Cathy Reines joined First Heritage Bank in November 2005 as President and was appointed CEO in January 2007. Prior to her appointment, she worked for more than eight years as a Partner with McGladrey & Pullen, the fifth largest CPA firm in the country, responsible for performing and overseeing community bank financial statement audits; and as a Managing Director of RSM McGladrey, a consulting firm specializing in serving community banks, overseeing outsourced internal and compliance audits and various consulting engagements. In 2003 Cathy left RSM McGladrey and joined a $600 million commercial bank holding company as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and in early 2005 founded Converge Consulting, Inc., a risk management consulting firm until joining First Heritage Bank.In 1989 Cathy received her Bachelor of Science Degree from Central Washington, passed the CPA examination, and began her career with Ernst & Young. She maintains her CPA license to this day. She has 4 children and 2 grandchildren and is active in the community. She sits on 5 community boards and two banking related boards with her passions being education and banking. She was recently named Snohomish County’s 2010 Executive of the Year.