Donald D. Snyder has served as a director of Western Alliance and of Bank of Nevada since 1997. He had earlier served as a founding director of the entity created to charter BankWest Corporation and was one of its initial investors. Mr. Snyder is the Chairman of the Las Vegas Performing Arts Center Foundation. Mr. Snyder was the President of Boyd Gaming Corporation from January 1997 to March 2005 having joined the company's board of directors in April 1996 and its management team in July 1996. Prior to that he was president and chief executive officer of the Fremont Street Experience LLC a private/public partnership formed to develop and operate a major redevelopment project in Downtown Las Vegas and he currently serves as chairman of the board of Fremont. Mr. Snyder was previously chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer of First Interstate Bank of Nevada then Nevada's largest full-service bank from 1987 through 1991. During his 22 years with First Interstate Bank from 1969 to 1991 Mr. Snyder served in various management positions in retail and corporate banking as well as international and real estate banking |