Merline Saintil Joins Banner Corporation Board of Directors
March 01 2017 - 4:00PM
Banner Corporation (NASDAQ: BANR), the parent company of Banner
Bank and Islanders Bank, today announced that Merline Saintil has
been appointed to the Board of Directors of Banner
Corporation. Ms. Saintil was also appointed to the Board of
Directors of Banner Bank.
Merline Saintil serves as Head of Operations for
the Product & Technology group at Intuit in Mountain View,
California, where her core responsibilities include driving global
strategic growth priorities, leading merger and acquisition
integration and divestitures, and overseeing the vendor management
office. Before joining Intuit, Ms. Saintil served as Yahoo’s
Head of Operations for Mobile & Emerging Products, where she
rapidly scaled the engineering organization through acquisitions
and organic growth. Prior to joining Yahoo, Ms. Saintil
increased her knowledge of technology and operations through a
variety of roles at Sun Microsystems, Adobe, PayPal and
Joyent.
In addition to her business interests, Ms.
Saintil is passionate about supporting women and girls in
leadership and technology. She currently serves on the Board
of Directors of Watermark and Iridescent – two non-profits
dedicated to increasing the number of women in leadership
positions, and supporting girls in entrepreneurship and technology,
respectively. She has received numerous awards for her
contributions to her community and support of women in technology
including being recognized by Business Insider as #6 on their list
of the 22 Most Powerful Women Engineers in the World.
Upon graduating valedictorian, Ms. Saintil
received a B.S. from Florida A&M University, where she
graduated summa cum laude. She earned her M.S. from Carnegie
Mellon University and has completed Stanford Directors’ College and
Harvard Business School’s executive education programs.
“We are pleased to welcome Ms. Saintil to our
Boards of Directors,” stated Mark J. Grescovich, President and CEO
of Banner Corporation and Banner Bank, “and especially look forward
to the valuable insight she brings with regard to the information
technology arena.”
About the Company
Banner Corporation is a $9.8 billion bank
holding company operating two commercial banks in five Western
states through a network of branches offering a full range of
deposit services and business, commercial real estate,
construction, residential, agricultural and consumer loans.
Visit Banner Bank on the Web at www.bannerbank.com.
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Contact:
Mark J. Grescovich,
President & CEO
Lloyd W. Baker, CFO
(509) 527-3636
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