Power 100: Top names in Sacramento banking, professional services - Sacramento Business Journal (2025)

Power 100 is a yearly review of the most powerful people in the Sacramento region's business community. This section covers top leaders in banking and professional services.

James Beckwith

CEO, Five Star Bank

Rancho Cordova-based Five Star Bank is the second-largest bank based in the Sacramento region and the region's second-largest publicly traded company. James Beckwith has led Five Star Bank since 2003, seeing it through its $94.8 million initial public offering in 2021. In the past two years, he's overseen an aggressive push into the Bay Area banking market. Five Star's assets grew 12.8% to $4.05 billion last year.

Donna Bland

CEO, Golden 1 Credit Union

Donna Bland has headed up Golden 1 since 2010. With $21.1 billion in assets as of the end of 2023, it's by far the Sacramento region's largest financial institution, with more than four times the assets of the next closest, River City Bank. Golden 1's commercial loan portfolio more than tripled in size over the year through last September to $665.9 million.

Janlynn Robinson Fleener

Managing partner, Downey Brand LLP

With 75 local attorneys, Downey Brand is the largest law firm in the Sacramento area. Janlynn Robinson Fleener is the first woman to lead the firm, taking the reins as managing partner in 2023. She's been at the firm for about 30 years, and it was her first job out of law school. She's said she eyed a career in law since childhood.

Steve Fleming

CEO, River City Bank

Steve Fleming has led Sacramento-based River City Bank since 2008. River City is Sacramento's largest bank, having grown from $800 million to $5.1 billion in assets in the time that Fleming has been CEO.

Pat McClain and Scott Hanson

Co-founders, Allworth Financial

Pat McClain and Scott Hanson started Folsom-based financial advisory Allworth Financial and expanded it across the country by acquiring smaller, regional firms. The expansion has been financed with a reported $800 million in private equity backing from New York-based Lightyear Capital LLC and the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan. In late 2023, McClain and Hanson relinquished day-to-day control of the firm to new CEO John Bunch.

Faye Nabhani

CEO, SAFE Credit Union

Faye Nabhani was promoted to CEO of the region's second-largest credit union in 2023. She was previously chief credit officer of Folsom-based SAFE Credit Union, which had $4.64 billion in assets as of the end of 2023. SAFE's commercial loan portfolio grew 18.2% year-over-year to $353.2 million as of the end of the third quarter of 2024.

Myla Ramos

CEO, SearchPros

Myla Ramos heads up staffing firm SearchPros. With $165 million in 2023 revenue, it ranked second last year on the Business Journal's list of largest women-owned businesses. Ramos has said the company typically has about 1,700 contractors on assignment across the country, though that number can vary widely day to day. In 2023, Ramos expanded SearchPros with the acquisition of some of the contracts of Blue Ribbon Personnel Services.

Curt Rocca

Founder and managing partner, DCA Partners

Curt Rocca started and runs DCA Partners, the Sacramento region's most prominent private equity firm and merger-and-acquisition adviser. The Roseville-based firm's private equity portfolio includes demolition and remediation company Precizion Partners and Bonafide Medical Group, a provider of software for medical equipment companies, both of which grew through acquisitions last year.