Company: FSBC
Filing Date: 2025-04-02
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001275168-25-000056
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Company: FIVE STAR BANCORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-02
Form: DEF 14A
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 Senior Vice President, Group Director at Signature Bank (acquired by Flagstar Bank) from June 2019 to June 2023. Mr. Kurtze brings extensive commercial banking and lending experience including almost a decade of management of top performing business development and relationship teams at Wells Fargo Bank where he oversaw a substantial credit and deposit portfolio of over 350 San Francisco commercial clients. His experience also includes National Director of Sales and leading SBA 504 loan growth for Liberty SBF. Mr. Kurtze has an established Bay Area network of business professionals and is actively involved in the greater San Francisco community. He currently serves on the board of directors of TMC Financing as Vice Chair, one of the largest SBA Certified Development Companies in the nation. Mr. Kurtze also serves on the board of directors of Hamilton Families which has a mission to end family homelessness. He graduated from Fresno Pacific University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Management. In 2024, Mr. Kurtze was honored among the Independent Community Bankers of America’s 40 Under 40: Emerging Community Bank Leaders honorees. In 2025, he was included among the San Francisco Business Times’ The Newsmaker 100 List honorees and the San Francisco Business Times’ 40 Under 40 honorees.

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Michael E. Lee

Mr. Lee has served as Senior Vice President and Chief Regulatory Officer since 2010. He joined the Company in 2005 as Chief Financial Officer after serving over 14 years with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”). He later transitioned to the position of Senior Vice President and Chief Credit Officer in 2007 and served in that position until being appointed as Senior Vice President and Chief Regulatory Officer in 2010. Mr. Lee graduated from Midwestern State University in Texas with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Economics and graduated with honors from the Pacific Coast Banking School at the University of Washington. Mr. Lee serves on the boards of directors of the Sacramento Asian Pacific Chamber of Commerce and the Sacramento Regional Conservation Corps.

Lydia A. Ramirez

Ms. Ramirez serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. She previously served as Senior Vice President and Chief Operations Officer and Chief DE&I Officer from 2021 to 2024, Senior Vice President and Director of Operations from 2018 to 2021 and as Senior Vice President and Director of Branch Administration from 2017 to 2018. Ms. Ramirez has