Company: WAL-PA
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-057334
Chunk: 11

Company: WESTERN ALLIANCE BANCORPORATION
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 11
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-2015; and President, 2008-2012, Ladder Capital Finance LLC. |     |   |                                                                                     |
| · | Real Estate Investment Banking, Commercial Real Estate, Credit Suisse, 1986-1999.          |     |   |                                                                                     |

| 8 | 2025 PROXY STATEMENT |

| CORPORATE GOVERNANCE |

| CHRISTOPHER A. HALMY |                                                           |                                                                                     |                                                                  |
|                      | Former CFOAlly Financial, Inc.Age: 56Director since: 2024 | Committee Membership·   Audit Committee·   Finance and Investment Committee (Chair) | Education·   M.B.A. and B.S. (Accountancy), Villanova University |

|   | Qualifications                                                                                                                             |
| · | Former Chief Financial Officer of a large financial institution.                                                                           |
| · | Seasoned executive with extensive knowledge of portfolio management, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, and financial regulations. |
| · | CPA with nearly 30 years of progressive experience in finance, accounting and treasury.                                                    |

Biographical Information

| · | Board of Directors: Chair of the Board, Mercury Financial (fintech), 2019-present; Independent director, Burford Capital (legal finance and advisory firm), 2022-present; Independent director, Mosaic (financing residential solar energy), 2017-2023. |                                           | · | Senior Vice President, Global Funding Executive, Bank of America, 1997-2009; prior to which Mr. Halmy was Assistant Vice President, Assistant Controller, 1996-1997. |
|   | ·                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       | Accounting Officer, JP Morgan, 1994-1996. |   |                                                                                                                                                                      |
|   | ·                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       | Senior Accountant, Deloitte, 1990-1994.   |   |                                                                                                                                                                      |
| · | Chief Financial Officer, Ally Financial, Inc., 2009-2018, including leading the firm through its 2014 IPO.                                                                                                                                              |                                           |   |                                                                                                                                                                      |

| 2025 PROXY STATEMENT | 9 |

| CORPORATE GOVERNANCE |

| MARY CHRIS JAMMET |                                                                                                              |                                                                    |                                                                                             |
|                   | Former Senior Vice PresidentLegg Mason Capital Management(now Franklin Templeton)Age: 57Director since: 2024 | Committee Membership·   Audit Committee ·   Compensation Committee | Education·   B.S., Finance