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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 institutions and specialty finance companies, including most recently as Chief Financial Officer of First Foundation, Inc., from 2007 through 2020. Prior to his tenure in such roles, he was a senior manager at Deloitte, Haskin & Sells. Mr. Michel holds a BA in Accounting from the University of Notre Dame and is a Certified Public Accountant — California (inactive).

William D. Endresen, Executive Vice President, Commercial Real Estate President of HomeStreet Bank . Mr. Endresen has been a veteran of the commercial lending industry for over 40 years. He joined HomeStreet Bank in March 2015 as Executive Vice President of Commercial Real Estate and President of the HomeStreet Commercial Capital division for HomeStreet Bank and was promoted to his current position in April 2016 to lead the combined commercial real estate lending and operation teams of HomeStreet Bank. He was SVP Managing Director of Fidelity Federal Bank from 1999 to 2002 until the sale of the bank and then returned to the position of president of IMPAC Commercial Capital Corporation from 2002 until 2015. In 1996, Mr. Endresen founded IMPAC Commercial Capital Corporation, a private company that originates small balance multifamily loans through brokers on a wholesale basis, and IMPAC Commercial Holdings, a publicly traded real estate investment trust, and he served as president of those entities from 1996 to 1999. Mr. Endresen studied business at Fullerton College.

Godfrey B. Evans, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of HomeStreet, Inc. and HomeStreet Bank. Mr. Evans joined HomeStreet in November 2009 as Executive Vice President, General Counsel

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and Corporate Secretary. In March 2010, Mr. Evans was also named Chief Administrative Officer, a role he served until 2022. Mr. Evans is responsible for the delivery and management of all legal services to HomeStreet Bank and the Company. Mr. Evans has a total of over 25 years of experience as a general counsel of public companies. Prior to joining the executive team at HomeStreet, Mr. Evans was the managing director of the bankruptcy and restructuring practice group at Marshall & Stevens beginning in 2008. Mr. Evans served as interim general counsel and chief restructuring officer for Chapeau, Inc., a cogeneration manufacturing company, from 2008 to 2009. From 2002 to 2008, Mr. Evans served as a