Candace Hunter Wiest

President and CEO, West Valley National Bank

Candace Hunter Wiest is the President, CEO of West Valley Bancorp, Inc, and West Valley National Bank, the West Valley's only locally owned and operated community Bank. The Bank serves small businesses and the medical and dental communities. Ms. Wiest was recruited to organize the Bank in March of 2006. The Bank has offices in Avondale, Buckeye and Scottsdale and is one of the most well capitalized banks in the state

In 2003, Ms. Wiest was elected a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and was elected for a second term which began in 2006 and ended in December of 2008. She is the first woman to be elected as a Class a Director in the Banks 95-year history. The 12th District is the largest Bank in the Federal Reserve and serves 20-percent of the US population.

Ms. Wiest believes that community service is the cornerstone of community banking. Currently she serves as a director and member of Leadership Next for GPEC, a member of Greater Phoenix Leadership, the Chair of Westmarc, Director and Secretary of Cancer Treatment Center of America at Western Region Medical Center. She is also a member of ASU's West Campus Community Board, the Executive Committee of the Catholic Community Foundation and the West Valley Advisory Board and Foundation Board of Phoenix Children's Hospital.

Public recognition includes 2010 West Valley Woman of the Year, being named one of the Phoenix Business Journal's "Most Admired CEOs" in 2011, and a member of the West Valley 24.