Distinguished Speaker Series - 2015-11-13 - Kitchens

Christina Kitchens
Managing Group Director of East West Bank’s National Energy Finance Group
Friday, November 13th - 10:00am to 11:30am
BLB 80

Christina serves as Managing Group Director of East West Bank’s National Energy Finance Group. Her group focuses primarily on providing senior debt lending to upstream, midstream and downstream middle market companies and offers first-class treasury management along with its bank's cross-border advisory, private equity financing, structured and project finance. Christina is among the fourth generation of oil and gas professionals in her family and has been involved in all aspects of the industry with specific focuses in finance and operations. She received her BA and MBA from the University of North Texas.

Christina has numerous industry affiliations and leadership roles with the Texas Energy Council, TIPRO, Texas Energy Update (a founding member and board member), Energy Leadership Series (a founding member and board member), Women's Energy Network (a North Texas founding member and advisory board member), Dallas Petroleum Club, Midland Petroleum Club and the Society of Petroleum Engineers among many others. She additionally serves on the University of North Texas College of Business advisory board and is active in her sponsorship of the UNT Professional Leadership Program and The Board Connection, a non-profit organization focused to placement of women on for-profit boards.

Christina was recently honored as a D CEO’s Most Influential Business Leader in DFW as a part of an upcoming 2015 feature and as a 2014 Who's Who in Energy Designee for the second year in a row with the Dallas Business Journal. She also received the recognition of Top 20 under 40 in Energy Finance with The Oil and Gas Investor for 2014 (a well-respected industry publication) and was recognized by the Texas Energy Council at their 26th Annual Symposium held at the George Bush Presidential Center as their 2014 Energy Ambassador recipient for her work in oil and gas.

About East West Bancorp (NASDAQ: EWBC) is a US publicly traded bank with total assets of $30.1 billion and a market capitalization over $6.5 billion as of 6/30/15. EWBC is one of the 25 largest public banks in the US and has been ranked consistently in the top 15 of Forbes’ “100 Best Banks in America” for 5 consecutive years. The bank has recently expanded its operations and product footprint in Texas including the launch of its national energy finance platform, headquartered in Dallas.