Heritage Oaks Bancorp Announces Planned Retirement of CEO, Lawrence P. Ward

PASO ROBLES, Calif., Jan. 28, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Heritage Oaks Bancorp (Nasdaq:HEOP) (the “Company”), parent company of Heritage Oaks Bank (the “Bank”), announced that the Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer and the Bank’s Chief Executive Officer, Lawrence P. Ward, announced to the Board of Directors of both the Company and Bank his intention [...] http://bit.ly/eSEVPP