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Salt Lake City resident Peter Metcalf, CEO and founder of Black Diamond Inc., has been appointed Salt Lake City branch chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank for 2016.
He will succeed Bradley J. Wiskirchen, CEO of Keynetics Inc., Boise, Idaho, who is retiring from the Fed's Salt Lake City branch board of directors. Wiskirchen has served as branch director since 2011 and as chairman since 2014, according to a statement from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
Black Diamond is based in Salt Lake City, where it designs, manufactures and markets products for climbing, mountaineering, backpacking, skiing, and other outdoor recreation activities.
Prior to founding Black Diamond, Metcalf served as general manager of the Chouinard Equipment subsidiary of the Patagonia/Lost Arrow Corporation.
A native of New York City, Metcalf received a bachelor of arts degree in political science from the University of Colorado and a certificate in management from Drucker Graduate School of Management at Claremont University.
Metcalf is currently serving, or has served on corporate advisory and boards of directors, including the Utah Governor's Mountain Accord Executive Committee, Outdoor Industry Association, the Conservation Alliance, Outdoor Eco-System Task Force of Utah, Utah Nature Conservancy and Utah Economic Development Corporation.
The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco provides wholesale banking services to financial institutions in the nine Western states through its head office in San Francisco, branch offices in Los Angeles, Portland, Ore., Salt Lake City, and Seattle, and a cash-processing office in Phoenix. As the nation's central bank, the Federal Reserve System formulates monetary policy, serves as a bank regulator, administers consumer-protection laws, and is fiscal agent for the U.S. government.