Christian Christensen is the new Bellingham branch manager of Bank of the Pacific.

He replaces Kamyar Monsef, who is transferring to manage branches in Clatsop County, Ore.

Christian has more than 15 years of banking and finance experience with expertise in lending, investments, and retail banking.  He has worked in Whatcom County for the past eight years, most recently in Ferndale.

Bank of the Pacific has more than $650 million in assets with 18 branch locations, serving Grays Harbor, Pacific, Skagit, Wahkiakum and Whatcom counties in Washington, and Clatsop County in northwest Oregon. The bank offers retail services, commercial banking and residential mortgage origination in those markets.