Castle Creek's team has over 150 years of combined industry experience, enabling the firm to take control positions and execute an operationally driven, hands-on strategy to manage its portfolio banks. Castle Creek focuses each bank on improving core strengths and competitive advantages by mitigating risk, reducing costs and increasing profitability. Castle Creek's strategy is based on a strong management team, solid growth potential and sound banking and management practices. For each portfolio bank, Castle Creek's operationally driven approach focuses on:

• establishing a core management team and board of directors,
• balancing risk and profitability,
• building market share through organic growth and acquisitions and
• driving value creation.

Result

Castle Creek and its portfolio bank management teams have consistently demonstrated an ability to generate superior investment returns for more than 15 years.