Cynthia Dopjera Appointed to Board of Directors of Stellar Bancorp, Inc.
24 July 2023 - 8:30PM
Stellar Bancorp, Inc. (the “Company” or “Stellar”)(NYSE:STEL) today
announced the election of Cynthia Dopjera to the Board of Directors
of the Company effective July 20, 2023. The election of Ms. Dopjera
as a Class II director fills an existing vacancy. The Company has a
14-member Board, which consists of 11 independent directors. Ms.
Dopjera will also join Stellar’s Audit Committee.
“We are very pleased Cynthia is joining our Board of Directors.
She brings a range of skills, experience and perspective that will
benefit the Company and its goals going forward,” said Steve
Retzloff, Executive Chairman of the Board of the Company. “With her
extensive experience in the financial services industry as a
banker, auditor and consultant and her familiarity with the bank
and its marketplaces, the input she provides will be invaluable to
our Board of Directors.”
Ms. Dopjera currently serves as a member of the Board of
Directors of the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary, Stellar Bank,
as well as the Chair of the bank’s Audit Committee. Ms. Dopjera
served as a member of the Board of Directors of Allegiance Bank
beginning in 2019 prior to its merger with CommunityBank of Texas,
N.A. and the formation of Stellar Bank. Ms. Dopjera spent the first
half of her career holding various operational and executive
leadership roles for community banks as well as large regional
banks. In 2000, she joined the Houston-based public accounting firm
of Harper & Pearson Company, P.C. where she served as
Shareholder, Chairman of the Board and Practice Leader for the
firm’s banking and financial institutions practice until her
retirement in 2018. The firm’s services included financial
statement audit, tax preparation, regulatory compliance, loan and
asset quality review, model validations, interest rate risk
assessments, and the design and implementation of internal controls
over financial reporting for large financial institutions and
publicly-traded institutions regulated under FDICIA and
Sarbanes-Oxley.
About Stellar Bancorp, Inc.
Stellar Bancorp, Inc. is a bank holding company headquartered in
Houston, Texas. Stellar’s principal banking subsidiary, Stellar
Bank, provides a diversified range of commercial banking services
primarily to small- to medium-sized businesses and individual
customers across the Houston, Dallas, Beaumont and surrounding
communities in Texas.
Investor relations:IR@stellarbancorpinc.com
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