Kerbis will be responsible for all credit and risk management functions for the core commercial banking business and will report to Perry Pelos, head of Wells Fargo commercial banking.

He will relocate from Chicago to San Francisco to assume his new role.

Kerbis has 20 years of experience in the financial services industry. For the past 11 years, he has led Wells Fargo’s expansion of its commercial banking business into the Midwest and Northeast regions of the US.