Broadway Financial Corporation announced the following executive appointments: John F. Tellenbach, as Executive Vice President, West Commercial Regional Executive; LaShanya Washington, as Executive Vice President and Chief Credit Officer; and Sonja S. Wells, Executive Vice President, as East Commercial Regional Executive. Mr. Tellenbach joins the Bank from Malaga Bank in Southern California, where he served as SeniorVice President and Chief Credit Officer since December 2015, and was responsible for overall credit quality and growth with a primary focus on multi-family financing in Southern California. Previously, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Banking Officer with Sunwest Bank from March 2014 until the fall of 2015, and as Senior Vice President and Group Manager – Business Banking for Comerica Bank from June 2011 until early 2014.

Mr. Tellenbach has over 30 years of commercial banking experience and has served as a member of ALCO, Credit Review, Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), Product and Pricing, Compliance, and IT committees of various community banks. Ms. Washington is being promoted to Executive Vice President and Chief Credit Officer. She has served as Deputy Chief Credit Officer of the Bank since August 2022 and was previously SeniorVice President and SeniorCredit Officer.

Prior to joining the Bank in February 2019 as Credit Risk Officer, she served as Senior Credit Analyst and Bank Officer for United Bank in Vienna, Virginia, from late 2018 until early 2019, where she was responsible for underwriting Commercial and Industrial loans, and CRA loans, as well as responsible for establishing credit analysis procedures and training juniorcredit analysts. Previously, she served as Manager for Loan Servicing and Accounting for Capital Impact Partners from November 2015 until August 2018 and performed various lending and credit related functions with Capital One Bank from June 2011 until November 2015. Ms. Washington has over 25 years of commercial banking experience, substantially all of which has been related to credit risk analysis, and loan underwriting, reviews, servicing, and administration.

Ms. Wells will assume responsibility for all lending activities in the Bank's east coast markets and continue to be based in Washington, D.C. She has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Lending Officer, Commercial Banking, of Broadway and the Bank since the merger of Broadway Financial Corporation and CFBanc Corporation (CFBanc) in April 2021, and previously served as Senior Vice President and Interim Chief Lending Officer of the Bank since May 2020. Prior to that appointment, Ms. Wells served as SeniorVice President and Relationship Manager of the Bank from July 2015, Senior Relationship Manager with M&T Bank in Baltimore, Maryland from June 2002 to July 2015, and Small Business Relationship Sales Manager at First Union National Bank (Wachovia/Wells Fargo) in Baltimore, Maryland from May 1999 to 2002.