Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001518715-25-000066
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Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form: DEF 14A
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 a member of the Board of Directors of the Fred Hutch Cancer Care Center and chairs the Board of Equal Opportunity Schools. Ms. Harrell remains active with the University of Washington as an Adjunct Professor and is the immediate-past Fritzky Endowed Chair in Leadership at the Foster Business School.

Ms. Harrell was selected to serve as director because of her experience in the areas of marketing, sales, strategy, communications, community service and diversity, social responsibility, sustainability, public affairs and corporate citizenship, in addition to her extensive background in executive management. She currently chairs the HomeStreet Board of Directors Nominating and Governance Committee.

James R. Mitchell, Jr., Director

Mr. Mitchell joined the Board in January 2020. Mr. Mitchell has worked in commercial banking for more than 40 years, including founding Puget Sound Bank in 2004, where he served as president and chief executive officer from inception until the merger of that bank with Heritage Bank in January 2018. He was also a member of the Board of Directors of Puget Sound Bank from 2004 through January 2018, serving as chairman of the board from 2004 through 2008. After the merger of Puget Sound Bank and Heritage Bank, Mr. Mitchell served as the market president for King County for Heritage Bank for the next year, until January 2019, and then as a consultant to Heritage Bank until January 2020. Prior to founding Puget Sound Bank, Mr. Mitchell served as a Senior Vice President at Sterling Bank, where he opened and grew the Seattle corporate banking office, from 2002 to 2004, and a Senior Vice President and team leader for the Seattle corporate banking team of U.S. Bank from 1990 through 2002. Mr. Mitchell served on the Board of Directors of the Washington Bankers Association from 2011 to 2018, the Board of Directors of the Western Bankers Association from 2015 to 2018, and the board of Bellevue LifeSpring, a nonprofit organization, from 2009 to 2017. Mr. Mitchell received his bachelor’s degree from Seattle University, a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Washington and his juris doctorate from Southwestern University School of Law.

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Mr. Mitchell was selected to serve as a director based on his knowledge of the banking industry, experience as a chief executive officer and director of a bank, and expertise in commercial banking. He is currently the Lead Independent Director