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and Robert Anderson, managing partner of Walnut Creekk accounting firm Blanding Boyerr andRockwell LLP. Van Selow's appointment of six men with deep ties to the communityy has to blunt some of the attacks by upstarrt DiabloValley Bank. Diablo Valley Bank CEO Jim Mayer has made no secret that he quit as CEO of Moung Diablo National because he felt it is no longer a communithy bank and has become too beholden to its Palo Altopareny company, Greater Bay Bancorp. Van Selow, four months on the job, has got a boar now to temper some ofthat criticism.
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