Company: SFBC
Filing Date: 2025-04-16
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001541119-25-000013
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Company: Sound Financial Bancorp, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-16
Form: DEF 14A
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 healthcare industry, especially in our local community. He also has experience in compensation, personnel management and other human resource matters, which are valuable skills he brings to our Board of Directors.

Laura Lee Stewart. Ms. Stewart is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Sound Community Bank and Sound Financial Bancorp. Prior to joining Sound Community Bank as its President in 1989, when it was a credit union, Ms. Stewart was Senior Vice President/Retail Banking at Great Western Bank. Ms. Stewart was selected as an inaugural member of the FDIC Community Bank Advisory Board and completed her term in 2011. In 2011, Ms. Stewart was appointed to the inaugural Consumer Financial Protection Bureau board and completed her term in 2013. She also served as Chair of the American Bankers Association’s (“ABA”) Government Relations Council and is the past Chair of the Washington Bankers Association. The American Banker magazine honored her as one of the top 25 Women to Watch in banking in 2011, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022, 2023 and 2024, and as one of the most powerful women in Banking in 2019, 2020 and 2021. In 2016, Ms. Stewart was recognized as a Woman of Influence by the Puget Sound Business Journal. In 2018, she was named Community Banker of the Year by American Banker. Ms. Stewart also served as Chair of the National Arthritis Foundation’s board of directors as well as Chair of the board of directors of Woodland Park Zoo. Ms. Stewart completed her second term as a member of the Seattle Branch Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. In 2024, she joined the Head Office Board. She is also the only non-native Board member of the Jamestown Sklallan Community Development Financial Institution. In October 2019, Ms. Stewart was elected Chair of the ABA. In 2021, she was named as one of The Power 100 by the Puget Sound Business Journal. Her many years of service in all areas of financial institution operations and duties as President and Chief Executive Officer of Sound Financial Bancorp and Sound Community Bank bring a specialized knowledge of the financial, economic and regulatory challenges we face, and she is well-suited to keeping the Board informed on these matters.

Business Experience of Executive Officers Who are Not Directors

The business experience, for at least the past five years, of each named