Mission Bank's Annual Retreat

Featuring

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  Jeff Wishner

  Managing Director, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc.

  With more than 30 years of experience advising West Coast financial institutions on mergers and acquisitions and capital-raising transactions. He has advised on more than 120 M&A transactions totaling $30 billion and over 100 capital-raising transactions totaling more than $17 billion, and holds an MBA from Harvard University and a B.S. in Finance from UC Berkeley

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  Dr. Christopher Thornberg

  Founding Partner, Beacon Economics

  Dr. Thornberg founded Beacon Economics in 2006 and, under his leadership, the firm has become one of the nation’s most respected economic research organizations. He notably predicted the collapse of the subprime real estate bubble and subsequent Great Recession and was among the few economists to push back against predictions of a depression during COVID-19; a former UCLA professor, he now consults globally for private industry, cities, counties, and public agencies.

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  Mike Noshay

  Partner, Gitwit

  Mike Noshay is a New York native, tech founder, and one of four partners at Gitwit, where he helps build B2B applied AI companies from the ground up. Over the past four years, Gitwit has launched nine B2B AI companies with a combined enterprise value of more than $200 million; Noshay is also a Stanford Health Futurist, a University of Minnesota graduate, dedicated husband, and father of 7-year-old twins.