Francesca Castagnola Pizzo is senior managing director of the Juris Banking Group at Western Alliance Bank.

A banking visionary in providing services to the legal industry, Ms. Castagnola Pizzo has built – and leads – expert teams that provide full-service banking solutions to meet the needs of law firms, claims administrators and other key players in the legal ecosystem. She is also a founding officer of the Bank’s San Diego Division. The legal industry is at an inflection point. Ms. Castagnola Pizzo is at the vanguard of these changes, leveraging her 35 years of banking experience to advise law firms and other legal service providers as they adapt to emerging technologies and services.

Ms. Castagnola Pizzo served as the architect of, and now leads, the Bank’s national Juris Banking Group, which includes multiple lines of business that serve the legal community. Those include Settlement Services for law firms, claims administrators and others managing class action, mass tort and bankruptcy settlements, and the Bank’s bankruptcy offering.