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.