LOS ANGELES, Calif. – February 2, 2009 – Morgan Samuels Company, a leading national management consulting firm specializing in executive recruitment, today announced the placement of Marc B. Wright as Executive Vice President and Chief Credit Officer at HomeStreet Bank. HomeStreet Bank is a full-service regional community bank, providing a full range of financial services including business banking, business lending, consumer banking, mortgage lending, residential construction financing, income property financing and insurance services. HomeStreet Bank is one of the largest privately owned banks in the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii.

Wright had most recently been the First Vice President, Special assets Management at WaMu.  Previous to that, Wright was the Division Executive, Commercial Real Estate Lending at WaMu.  Wright received his BA in Sociology and Education from the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington.