Gary Fan

Gary Fan serves as COO of RBB, a $4 billion asset publicly traded bank.  Gary is responsible for identifying and executing growth opportunities, leading digital banking initiatives, managing products and services, driving merger and acquisition (M&A) activity, handling divestments and divestures, improving cross-functional business processes and maintaining business model innovation.  Gary was previously President of Gateway Bank FSB in Oakland, CA where he led all business units for retail and commercial banking and spearheaded the profitable turnaround of the company. 

Prior to Gateway, Gary held numerous roles in the financial services industry including the Head of Strategy of North America and the Head of Consumer Lending for the US subsidiary of CTBC, a large $200 billion global bank.  

Throughout his career, Gary has been responsible for identifying opportunities to ensure profitable growth and leading the execution of business initiatives through prioritization, product development, resource deployment, and cost management.  He’s had numerous years of experience in areas including: fintech, mergers and acquisitions, new market expansion, strategic partnerships, long range planning, and restructuring.  Gary has had P&L responsibility over billion-dollar lending portfolios and has led Sales, Marketing, Retail/Branch Banking, Commercial Banking, Operations, Credit Administration, Finance, Information Technology and Security, Human Resources, Legal, PMO, and Real Estate teams at various organizations.  

Gary’s professional experience spans industries including Banking/Financial Services, Fintech, E-Commerce, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain/Logistics.  Gary has a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley.  He is also a graduate of the Stonier Graduate School of Banking at The Wharton School.