Broadway Financial appoints four senior officers to City First management team

Broadway Financial announced the addition of four experienced senior officers to the management team of City First Broadway. The Board of Directors of City First Broadway announced the appointment of Zack Ibrahim as Executive Vice President and CFO of the Company and the Bank. Ibrahim will also be the Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer for Broadway. Elizabeth Sur has been appointed as Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Chief Risk Officer of both Broadway and the Bank. In addition, City First Broadway appointed: Elise Adams as Chief Accounting Officer and Senior Vice President; and Gary Castellaw as Corporate Treasurer and Senior Vice President. These appointments were made, and became effective, as of May 15. All of these new executives will be based in Washington, D.C. As previously announced, Brenda J. Battey, Executive Vice President and CFO will retire by the end of the Q2. Prior to joining City First Broadway, Ibrahim was most recently Executive Director, Head of Corporate Finance at Texas Capital Bancshares where he led TCB’s Expense Program designed to achieve targeted financial objectives by 2025, as well as projects to develop various strategic roadmaps for scaling the finance department in support of the TCB’s growth strategy, including implementing the Oracle EPBS financial platform and enhancing TCB’s pricing tool system for all lending, capital markets, and deposit pricing decisions. Prior to joining City First Broadway, Sur was most recently a Managing Director and Regulatory Intelligence executive at Wells Fargo Bank, responsible for identifying regulatory issues, developing sustainable solutions for those issues, and managing and reporting progress in resolving various regulatory matters.Adams was Chief Accounting Officer and Corporate Controller for EagleBank, where she was responsible for providing oversight of the accounting department and reporting functions, including management of the general ledger, accounts payable, reconciliations, and filings with the SEC and banking regulators. Castellaw was Treasurer and Controller for IDEMIA North America, Idemia America Corporation.