Home Savings Adds Two Veteran Bankers to its California Management Team

Business Wire, August 14, 1997

IRWINDALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 14, 1997--Home Savings of America Thursday announced the addition of two veteran consumer and small-business-banking professionals to its senior management ranks.

Former Great Western Bank regional executives Tom L. Dobyns and David A. Rohrbach join Home Savings as group sales directors for Orange County and Northern California, respectively.

Dobyns assumes a new position at Home Savings created to focus more attention on the state's dynamic Southern California market. Dobyns was most recently Great Western's top-ranked area manager, overseeing the acquired thrift's Southern California branch franchise.

The 25-year banking veteran adds extensive experience in retail, business, corporate and international banking from First Interstate Bank and Bank of America to Home Savings' roster.

Dobyns, 44, holds a bachelor's degree in finance and management and a master's of business administration degree from the University of Southern California. He resides in Laguna Hills, Calif.

Rohrbach most recently served as a Northern California territory manager with Great Western. He brings 14 years of experience in banking and sales management at Great Western and First Interstate Bank to the Home Savings franchise.

During his tenure with Great Western, he was awarded the "Best of the Best" President's Circle Award for leading his 25-branch East Bay territory to become the retail bank's top performing territory in 1996. He also oversaw the successful roll-out of the bank's consumer- and business-banking-loan programs in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The 39-year-old Danville, Calif., resident holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from Notre Dame and an MBA from California State University, Long Beach.

"All of us at Home Savings are very excited to have Tom and Dave join our management team," said Carl W. Forsythe, the bank's executive vice president and director of Personal Financial Services.

"They have played instrumental roles in establishing and leading successful sales teams, and we expect to capitalize on their local market experience in Orange County and the Greater Bay Area where we see tremendous opportunities for growth in the retail and small- business sectors."

With assets of more than $47 billion, Home Savings of America is one of the nation's largest full-service consumer and small-business banks. It serves nearly 1.7 million customers from its 368 financial service centers in California, Texas and Florida and 115 mortgage lending offices in eight states.

CONTACT: H.F. Ahmanson & Co., Irwindale

Adrian Rodriguez, 626/814-5169