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West Coast Community Bank is a full-service community bank headquartered in Santa Cruz, California, serving Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz counties since 2004. The bank is dedicated to community involvement, actively supporting local well-being through participation and donations to regional nonprofit organizations. In 2024, it merged with 1st Capital Bancorp to enhance its capabilities and better serve the community, with plans to rebrand all branches as West Coast Community Bank by 2025. The bank offers a variety of financial services for both businesses and individuals. These include business loans, commercial real estate financing, asset-based lending, construction lending, and agricultural loans. It also provides SBA and USDA government guaranteed loans, credit cards, merchant services, and digital banking solutions. For personal banking, West Coast Community Bank offers competitive deposit solutions and consumer banking services. The bank is recognized as a leading SBA lender in Santa Cruz County and Silicon Valley, reflecting its strong support for local businesses.
Arminco Inc. is the premier provider of dental design, construction, project management, and equipment sales & service. Projects are overseen by a full-service, in-house team of financial experts, designers, architects, contractors and equipment specialists. Projects include pediatric and orthodontics, surgical and other medical offices, veterinary practices as well as restaurants, churches, nail boutiques and other high end establishments. Founded in 1996, Arminco Inc. has grown from a small family business to a 50+ employee, multi-million dollar company operating throughout the US.
Carrington Fox is a boutique executive search firm founded in 2001, based in New York City. The company specializes in human capital solutions for global financial markets, focusing on executive and contingent search mandates. With a team of approximately 25 to 50 employees, Carrington Fox generates an estimated annual revenue between $5 million and $25 million. The firm serves clients in investment banking, private equity, hedge funds, tax, accounting, and quantitative analytics. They emphasize long-term partnerships, aiming to understand client needs and candidate aspirations deeply. Carrington Fox is known for its niche expertise in front-office financial roles and quantitative disciplines, providing tailored recruitment processes with a commitment to confidentiality and efficiency.
Blue Jay Racing is a student-run design team open to all undergraduate students. The program was founded in 2004. The team competes annually in three international events put on by the Society of Automotive Engineers. Students design, build, and race a single seat off-road vehicle against a total of ~200 teams representing 14 nations and nearly 4,000 young engineers. The award-winning program offers student engineers an educational experience that goes beyond what the classroom can offer. Aside from the technical knowledge gained, the team-based skills learned through such a rigorous endeavor develops leaders well prepared to enter industry and academia. At each competition the team competes in four of six dynamic events (Acceleration, Maneuverability, Rock Crawl, Suspension and Traction, Hill Climb and Sled Pull) as well as three static events (a sales presentation, design presentations and a cost report). To cap off the competition, the team will also race in a grueling four-hour endurance race. Team members learn as much at competition as from designing and building their vehicle throughout the rest of the year. In addition to their own learning it is also important to the team that all members participate. At competition the team is always working, whether repairing their vehicle or planning and preparing for the next days events. With so much to do and so little time every member contributes to the teams success.