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Landon Baines

Chair, Audit Committee at Oakland Public Education Fund

Landon is Senior VP – Regional Market President at Heritage Bank of Commerce in Oakland. Born in Oakland, he attended Glenview Elementary before his family moved to Hayward. However, his Oakland roots never left him.

Landon has been a banking professional for more than fifteen years serving with top banking institutions including CitiBank, First Republic Bank, Morgan Stanley, and Wells Fargo. He returned to Oakland in 2017 to lead the commercial banking office for Community Bank of the Bay. In 2019, Landon was recruited by Heritage Bank of Commerce establish their brand to Oakland. He jumped at the opportunity because it presented an opportunity to bring new capital, well-paying jobs and a bank with a rich history of supporting small business owners and non-profits to Oakland. And, Landon is no stranger to the Oakland Public Education where he has served on the Community Advisory Board granting funds through it’s A – Z Fund to hundreds of public school projects across Oakland.

Landon received his MBA from St. Mary’s College, is a graduate of the Pacific Coast Banking School, and earned his undergraduate degree in Political Science from California State College in Hayward.