Eagle Bancorp EGBN

Mr. Newell, 44, is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company since September 25, 2023 and interim Chief Risk Officer of EagleBank since February 2024. Prior to joining Eagle Bancorp, Inc., Mr. Newell was the Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer at Equity Bancshares (NYSE:EQBK) since April 2020, a $5.1 billion community bank headquartered in Wichita, Kansas. During that tenure, Mr. Newell led and oversaw the finance, information technology, and loan, deposit, and payment operations teams. Before Equity, Mr. Newell was the Chief Financial Officer of United Financial Bancorp, Inc (NASDAQ:UBNK) a $7.1 billion commercial bank based in Hartford, CT, from November 2013 until its sale to Peoples United Bank in October 2019. Earlier roles include AllianceBernstein L.P., Fitch Ratings, Inc, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Mr. Newell earned his Certified Financial Analyst designation in 2009, a Masters of Science in Business Analytics from Northeastern University, and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance & Marketing also earned from Northeastern University in Boston, MA.

On February 5, 2025, the Company promoted Mr. Riel to the position of Senior Executive Vice President. Mr. Riel is Executive Vice President and Chief Real Estate Lending Officer. He joined the Company in 2001. He has held many roles at the bank including credit analyst, relationship manager, team leader and senior market executive. Mr. Riel sits on the Board of Directors of the EagleBank Foundation, and on the Board for George Mason University Center for Real Estate Entrepreneurship. He is a current Trustee for The Children's Inn at NIH and previously served on the Board of Directors at the Inn for ten years. He earned a Bachelor's Degree in Economics from West Virginia University.

Mr. Saltzman, 65, is Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer. He joined the Company in January 2020 as the Chief Legal Officer. He is responsible for the Ethics Office and all legal and litigation matters at the Bank. Mr. Saltzman was a Partner in the Banking and Financial Institutions Advisory Practice at White & Case and Vice Chairman at Deutsche Bank, where he initially helped lead capital stress testing and regulatory remediation and then led the payments and transaction banking business in the Americas region. Prior to that Mr. Saltzman was President of The Clearing House Association (now BPI), leading the banking industry's lobbying efforts during the implementation of Dodd-Frank reforms, as well as serving as General Counsel of the affiliated Clearing House Payments Company, which owns and operates the nation's payments infrastructure. He holds a B.A. from Clark University, Phi Beta Kappa, and a J.D. from Boston University School of Law. He has over 40 years of experience in the financial services industry.

James Soltesz has served as Chief Executive Officer of Soltesz, Inc., an engineering and consulting firm, since 2000. Mr. Soltesz serves on the Board of Directors of the Montgomery County Economic Development Corporation. He formerly served on the Board of Trustees of Georgetown Preparatory School, Mater Dei School, as a Life Director of the Maryland-National Capital Area Building Industry Association, the Catholic Charities Foundation, and the Maryland Economic Development Corporation (MEDCO). Mr. Soltesz also chaired the Montgomery County Executive Business Advisory Board, and has served as a director of the Bank since 2007. Mr. Soltesz holds an M.B.A. from the University of Cincinnati, an M.S. in Civil Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Purdue University.

Theresa G. LaPlaca is a Leadership Coach for TLP Leadership Advisory Services, a firm she founded after her retirement as an Executive Vice President at Wells Fargo & Company. Prior to her retirement in 2019, she was the Executive Vice President and Head of the Conduct Risk Management Group and a member of the Management Committee at Wells Fargo. Prior to that she was the Chief Financial Officer of Wells Fargo's Wealth and Investment Management businesses. Ms. LaPlaca previously served as the Chief Financial Officer for CitiStreets Retirement Services Division. She is a past member of the Queens University of Arts Advisory Board and previously served as a Board Director and Treasurer of the Nevins Foundation and the St. Anthony Foundation of Charlotte. Ms. LaPlaca obtained a Bachelors in Education from Shenandoah University.

A. Leslie Ludwig is the co-founder of L&L Advisors, a commercial real estate consulting firm, and a retired Partner and Chairperson of the Management Committee at JBG Smith (formerly The JBG Companies), where she oversaw the Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Investor Relations, Insurance and Marketing functions. In 2012, Ms. Ludwig started a women's initiative at The JBG Companies to lead diversity efforts for the company. Ms. Ludwig serves on the board of the Frostburg State University Foundation and was formerly a member of CREW (Commercial Real Estate Women), on the Investment Advisory Committee for the National Multifamily Housing Corporation, the Virginia Tech Real Estate Industry Advisory Board and the Advisory Board of CREW. Ms. Ludwig obtained a B.A. from Frostburg State University.

Matthew Brockwell is the former Chief Financial Officer of the University of Oklahoma (OU), where, beginning in December 2021, he was responsible for all aspects of the University's financial management as well as risk management, information technology, and human resources. Prior to his role at OU, Mr. Brockwell was a CPA and spent 21 years as a Financial Services Audit Partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC). There he held leadership roles in PwC's US Financial Services practice. He has over 36 years of experience working with financial services firms in the US and abroad. His practice included both SEC registered and privately held companies, as well as both foreign and US financial regulators. Mr. Brockwell obtained a B.A. from the University of Oklahoma, an MBA from the Columbia Graduate School of Business and attended the Stonier Graduate School of Banking.

Steven Freidkin has over 25 years of experience in the field of IT and is the CEO and founder of Ntiva, Inc., a full-service technology firm offering managed IT services and support, including cyber security services and advanced IT consulting. Founded in 2004, Ntiva now has over 450 employees who serve over 1,400 clients. Mr. Freidkin, an alumnus of the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, has led Ntiva through two successful partnership transactions as well as more than a dozen acquisitions. Mr. Freidkin works with Ntiva clients to align their growth efforts with efficient, secure technology creating an environment for businesses to thrive. Mr. Freidkin's philanthropic work and charitable giving have all focused on helping people and their businesses. He is an active member on a multitude of boards and organizations including Young Presidents Organization (YPO), Capital Camps & Retreat Center and American Friends of the Hebrew University.

Benjamin Soto is a real estate transactions attorney and principal of Premium Title and Escrow, LLC, a Washington, D.C.-based full service title company providing commercial and residential real estate closings in DC, MD and VA, which Mr. Soto founded in 2002. He is also the owner of Paramount Development, LLC, established by Mr. Soto in 2007, which is focused on the acquisition and ground up development of commercial buildings and hotels in Washington, D.C. He is a former board member of the National Bar Association, and the DC Sports and Entertainment Commission, and a former Vice-Chair of the DC Board of Real Property Assessment and Appeals. Mr. Soto is a Board Director of the DC Chamber of Commerce, the DC Public Education Fund and the National Foundation for Affordable Housing Solutions. Mr. Soto has served as a Director of the Bank since 2006. Mr. Soto earned a B.S. in Finance & Administration from the American University and a JD from the Washington College of Law.

Pete Mathews is a former Senior Executive Vice President at M&T Bank. At the time of his retirement in 2022, he was the Senior Deputy Credit Officer overseeing the Commercial Credit teams supporting the bank's Commercial Lending and Commercial Real Estate segments. Before that, he was the Deputy Credit Officer in charge of the Commercial Real Estate Credit group. He began his career over 45 years ago at First National Bank of Maryland in the Retail Branch Management Program. Thereafter he maintained various Relationship Manager and Team Leader roles within commercial and commercial real estate lending. At the time that First National Bank of Maryland (or Allfirst Bank, as it later came to be known) merged with M&T Bank in 2003, Mr. Mathews was in charge of the Commercial Real Estate Division. He ran the Mid-Atlantic CRE unit for M&T until becoming the bank's Senior Real Estate Credit Officer in 2005. Mr. Matthews currently serves on the Board of Catholic Charities of Baltimore and chairs the Board of Healthy Neighborhoods, Inc. After over 20 years of service he retired last year as Treasurer and former Board Governance Chair for Business Volunteers Maryland. Mr. Mathews obtained a Bachelor of Arts in American History from Princeton University.

Ted Wilm enjoyed a 38-year career at PwC, serving many of the firm's largest asset management and financial services clients. He also served as the office managing partner of PwC's Irvine, California office and co-managed the firm's Southwest operations. Mr. Wilm was the audit committee chair of California Bancorp, and its operating subsidiary, California Bank of Commerce, until their merger with the Bank of Southern California in July 2024. He also holds leadership positions with the Corporate Directors Roundtable and the Forum for Corporate Directors in Orange County, California.

Kris Pederson is a former partner at EY, where she worked from November 2014 to December 2024. Over the course of Ms. Pederson's career, she has managed businesses, global strategies, and P&Ls at EY, IBM, and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). She holds board positions with SOBR Safe (Nasdaq: SOBR) as the Nomination and Governance Chair, the National Football League Alumni Association as Audit Chair, the National Association of Corporate Directors Colorado, and the Nasdaq Center for Board Governance. She also previously served on the Board of Great Western Bank on the Audit Committee and participated in the Bank's Initial Public Offering, Windward Reports, and the Harvard Business School Alumni Board.

Effective July 6, 2026, Stephen R. Curley will assume the position of President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiary the Bank. Mr. Curley will also join the boards of directors of the Company and the Bank on July 6, 2026, with his committee assignments to be determined at that time. Mr. Curley previously served as Chief Banking Officer for National Business Lines at Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL), the bank holding company for Western Alliance Bank, which has more than $90 billion in assets and is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, since 2022. Prior to that, from 2018 to 2022, Mr. Curley was Division President at Western Alliance Bank. On June 29, 2026, the Board of Directors of Eagle Bancorp, Inc., appointed Stephen R. Curley to the boards of the Company, effective July 6, 2026.

Ms. Lee, 47, is Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial and Industrial (C&I) Lending Officer of the Bank, and Executive Vice President of the Company. She joined the Bank in September 2024 and is responsible for overseeing all lending production and portfolio management activities within the C&I Lending Division, a significant strategic growth area for EagleBank. Prior to her current role, Ms. Lee was EVP and Regional President for Greater Washington & Maryland Region at Truist Financial Corporation (Truist), a purpose-driven financial services company. She assumed this position in December 2019, upon the closing of the merger of equals between BB&T Corporation and SunTrust Banks, Inc. (SunTrust). In this role, Ms. Lee was the company's senior leader in the market responsible for delivering the full complement of the company's services to all clients in the area and directing the corporate and commercial businesses. Before Truist, Ms. Lee had been with SunTrust for 20 years and was Head of Senior Housing for the wholesale banking practice where she built and led a team of bankers who covered national clients in the senior living and skilled nursing sectors. Ms. Lee is currently a Board Member of Goodwill of Greater Washington, United Way of the National Capital Area, Ingenuity Prep, and JK Community Farms. Ms. Lee graduated magna cum laude from William & Mary.

Mr. Trevor Montano was appointed to the board at AGM on May 14, 2026. Trevor Montano is the Founder and Managing Member of West Potomac Capital LLC, an investment management firm focused on financial services and business services based in the Washington, D.C. area. Mr. Montano has over 20 years of experience in investment banking and portfolio management. From 2014 to 2017, he served as Chief Investment Officer at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where he managed a portfolio of approximately $5 billion in financial institution investments made under the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Mr. Montano has completed more than 30 strategic M&A and capital raising transactions totaling over $35 billion in transaction value. In January 2026, Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger appointed Mr. Montano to the George Mason University Board of Visitors. Mr. Montano holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a B.S. in Accounting from George Mason University. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a member of the Economic Club of Washington, D.C. and the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Montano currently serves as a Board Director of Blue Ridge Bankshares, Inc., where he is a member of the Compensation and Enterprise Risk Management Committees.