Community West Bank agrees to $100M merger
Goleta-based Community West Bank is expanding its operations after the organization announced it would be merging with Central Valley Community Bank with the signing of an all-stock merger agreement on Oct. 10. The deal, which is expected to close in the second quarter of 2024, is valued at $99.4 million based on Central Valley Community Read More →
Santa Barbara firm partners with UCLA for new cancer treatments
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Meet the 2023 Fastest Growing Companies!
The 2023 chapter of the Pacific Coast Business Times’ Fastest Growing Companies special report is here! This year, the company that’s shown the most revenue growth from 2020 to 2022 is Pashion Footwear, a company the Pacific Coast Business Times knows well. We’ve been following the story of CEO Haley Pavone since 2017, when she Read More →
Sansum, Sutter Health finalize partnership
A deal more than a decade in the making came to fruition on Sept. 29, when CEOs for both Sansum Clinic and Sutter Health announced the finalization of a partnership between the two nonprofit health care entities. Based in Santa Barbara, Sansum is now part of Sutter Health, a Sacramento-based organization that operates a network Read More →
Artificial intelligence is reshaping talent management
Artificial Intelligence is transforming talent management and will play larger and larger roles as the technology continues to quickly evolve. That was the theme of a Sept. 21 forum at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks on the role of AI in recruiting and hiring employees, helping them develop their skills, and improving their performance. Read More →
SEC wins $45M lawsuit against Airborne Wireless
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Wireless treatment: No-cord cameras help hospital staff quicken surgery process
For decades, arthroscopic surgeries have been done with cameras attached to wires and cords. Co-founder and CEO of Lazurite Holdings Eugene Malinskiy believed that with all the other technological innovations that had occurred, it was time for a wireless surgical camera. The wireless camera, known as ArthroFree, received FDA approval last year and in January, Read More →
