Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001518715-25-000066
Chunk: 15

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form: DEF 14A
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Upon recommendation of the Nominating and Governance Committee (the “N&G Committee”), the Board has nominated Mark K. Mason, Scott M. Boggs, Sandra A. Cavanaugh, Jeffrey D. Green, Joanne R. Harrell, James R. Mitchell, Jr., Nancy D. Pellegrino and S. Craig Tompkins for re-election to the Board with a one-year term set to expire at the Company’s next annual meeting of shareholders to be held in 2026. Biographical information about each of the nominees is contained in the following section. A discussion of the qualiﬁcations, attributes and skills of each nominee that led our Board and the N&G Committee to the conclusion that she or he should serve as a director appears following each of the director nominee biographies.

Mark K. Mason, Director, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President

Mr. Mason has been the Company’s Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) and a member of the Company’s Board and HomeStreet Bank’s Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer since January 2010. He became Chairman of the Board of the Company in March 2015 after serving as Vice Chairman of the Board since January 2010. Mr. Mason brings extensive business, managerial and leadership experience to our Board. From 1998 to 2002, Mr. Mason was president, chief executive officer and chief lending officer for Bank Plus Corporation and its wholly owned banking subsidiary, Fidelity Federal Bank, where Mr. Mason also served as the chief financial officer from 1994 to 1995 and as chairman of the board of directors from 1998 to 2002. From February 2008 to October 2008, Mr. Mason also served as president of a startup energy company, TEFCO, LLC. He has served on the boards of directors of Hanmi Financial Corp., San Diego Community Bank and The Bjurman Barry Family of Mutual Funds. Mr. Mason is on the boards of directors of the Pacific Bankers Management Institute (the parent company of the Pacific Coast Banking School) and The Washington Bankers Association and is an advisory board member