Sterling Financial Corporation Appoints Paula E. Boggs and Maria M. Pope to Board of Directors
June 20 2013 - 5:00PM
Business Wire
Sterling Financial Corporation (NASDAQ:STSA) (“Sterling”) today
announced that Paula E. Boggs and Maria M. Pope have been appointed
to Sterling’s board of directors.
“Both Paula and Maria have distinguished professional careers
and significant board and management experience, including Paula's
deep legal and governmental experience and Maria's strong finance
and operations background. Sterling’s board will be strengthened
and enhanced by their membership and contributions,” said
Sterling’s chairman of the board Leslie S. Biller.
Boggs is the founder and member of Boggs Media, LLC, a business
that manages her music, speaking and other creative business
activities. She served as executive vice president, general counsel
and secretary, law and corporate affairs at Starbucks Corporation
from 2002 to 2012. Her prior professional experience includes
serving as vice president, legal, for products, operations and
technology at Dell Computer Corporation and as a partner at the law
firm of Preston Gates & Ellis, LLP. She also had a 14-year
career in public service, including serving as an assistant U.S.
attorney and in various capacities as an attorney for the U.S.
Army, the Department of Defense and the White House Office of Legal
Counsel. Boggs currently serves as a director of School of Rock,
LLC and as a trustee at Johns Hopkins University. She is a graduate
of the University of California at Berkeley School of Law, and
earned a bachelor’s degree from Johns Hopkins University.
Pope has served as senior vice president of power supply,
operations, and resource strategy of Portland General Electric
Company ("PGE"), a publicly traded, integrated electric utility
company, since March 2013. Prior to that, she served as the chief
financial officer of PGE from 2009 until 2013 and served on its
board from 2006 until her appointment as CFO in 2009. Her previous
professional experience includes serving as chief financial officer
of Mentor Graphics Corporation, as chief financial officer and in
other executive roles for Pope & Talbot, Inc. Pope currently
serves as a director of Pope Resources and served as a director of
TimberWest until 2013. She holds an MBA from Stanford University
and a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University.
About Sterling Financial Corporation
Sterling Financial Corporation (NASDAQ:STSA) of Spokane,
Washington, is the bank holding company for Sterling Savings Bank,
a Washington state chartered and federally insured commercial bank.
Sterling Savings Bank does business as Sterling Bank and, in
California, as Sonoma Bank and Borrego Springs Bank. Sterling
offers banking products and services, mortgage lending, and trust
and investment products to individuals, small businesses,
corporations and other commercial organizations. As of March 31,
2013, Sterling had assets of $9.26 billion and operated depository
branches in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and California. Visit
Sterling’s website at www.bankwithsterling.com.
Sterling Financial CorporationMedia contact:Cara
L. Coon, 509-626-5348cara.coon@bankwithsterling.comorInvestor
contact:Patrick Rusnak,
509-227-0961patrick.rusnak@bankwithsterling.com
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