Mr. Lanzrath joined Desert Commercial Bank in the summer of 2007 after serving more than six years as Senior Executive Vice President/Chief Financial Officer at Citizens Bancshares, a $1 billion commercial bank and holding company headquartered in Missouri. A Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Mr. Lanzrath began his professional career in the Chicago office of Arthur Anderson, where he focused on bank and financial services audits. From there he went on to a commodities firm before returning to his public accounting roots with Deloitte and Touche in Chicago. Mr. Lanzrath graduated from the University of Illinois, Urbana with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting. He went on to earn his CPA license in 1981. |