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Mr. Peterson was appointed to Pac-West's Board of Directors in November 2006. Mr. Peterson is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Columbia Ventures Corporation (CVC). Mr. Peterson graduated from Willamette University's College of Law in 1980. He had earlier earned an AB in Government, with High Honors, and been inducted into Phi Beta Kappa at The College of William and Mary. In 1987, while actively practicing law, he purchased and re-opened an aluminum smelter in Washington state. Subsequently he founded Columbia Ventures Corporation and led in the creation or acquisition of several subsidiary businesses. Mr. Peterson is a Director of American Capital Strategies, Inc., a NASDAQ-listed company, and Cogent Communications, a publicly traded company on the American Stock Exchange. Mr. Peterson is also a Director of the Washington Policy Center, a non-profit research center.
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