OLYMPIA, Wash., Nov. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Heritage Financial
Corporation ("Heritage") (NASDAQ: HFWA), is pleased to announce the
appointment of Trevor Dryer and
Gail Giacobbe to its Board of
Directors. Mr. Dryer and Ms. Giacobbe were also appointed to
the Board of Directors of Heritage's wholly-owned subsidiary,
Heritage Bank. The appointments are effective January 1, 2022.
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"We are pleased to welcome Trevor and Gail to our board of
directors," said Brian L. Vance,
Board Chair. "Trevor is a fintech and small business lending
subject matter expert with executive leadership experience which
spans from fintech startups to global technology companies.
He is a former attorney and a community leader in the Portland region. Gail brings deep
expertise in digital transformation, including personalization and
customer experience to the board. She also brings extensive
experience in strategic leadership, management, and cultural
transformation. As the banking industry experiences ongoing
digital transformation and as we evolve our new technology
solutions, we are looking forward to the addition of their
technical expertise on our board."
Mr. Dryer was the CEO and Director of Mirador from 2014 to 2018.
Mirador was a company he co-founded to provide small businesses
with the digital platform to access reasonably priced loans from
banks and credit unions. Mirador was acquired by CUNA Mutual in
2018, and he remained on as CEO through early 2020 to facilitate
the integration.
After leaving CUNA Mutual, Mr. Dryer joined Serent Capital, a
software-focused private equity firm, as a senior vice president on
its growth team. During his tenure, he served on the firm's
investment committee and worked with a variety of portfolio
companies on corporate strategy and implementing processes to scale
sales, customer success and other functions. He also serves
on the boards of Cozera and Qualtik, both venture-backed software
companies and previously was the Executive Chair of Zingo, a
startup that was sold to Credit Sesame in 2021. Earlier in his
career, Mr. Dryer worked at Vesta Corporation as Entrepreneur in
Residence where he created a new payments product, and Intuit where
he led their Mobile Payments and Point-of-Sale businesses.
Trevor is a former attorney at Munger, Tolles & Olson as well
as a judicial clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth
Circuit.
Mr. Dryer resides in Portland,
Oregon, and earned a J.D. degree from Stanford Law School, where he was CFO of
Stanford Law Review, a Teaching Assistant, and a Research
Assistant. He attained an A.B. degree in History and Literature
from Harvard University, magna cum
laude. He was active in Phi Beta Kappa, Committee on Public
Service, and Student Advisory Council at the Institute of
Politics.
Ms. Giacobbe currently serves as General Manager for Customer
Success Engineering at Microsoft. She is a senior technology
products and services executive with 20 years of experience leading
product organizations in enterprise, B2B, education and consumer
software, spanning Fortune 100 companies, high growth venture
capital and private equity funded enterprises. Formerly, Ms.
Giacobbe worked at GoDaddy from 2015 to 2019, where she served as
Vice President of Product and User Experience and led GoDaddy's
Women in Tech employee resource group. Prior to GoDaddy, Gail
worked in a variety of product leadership roles at Microsoft
including Principal Group Product Manager for Skype, Principal
Group Program Manager for Outlook, and Principal Product Lead for
SharePoint.
Ms. Giacobbe resides in Seattle,
Washington and is an active community leader. She has served
on the board of directors of JFS Seattle since 2014, where she
currently chairs the human resources and compensation committees.
Since 2019, she has served on the advisory board for the
Seattle University Data Science
program, providing guidance for the design of the MS in Data
Science program offering, which launched in the fall of 2021. Ms.
Giacobbe graduated with honors from Princeton
University and holds a Master of Arts in Teaching from
Brown University.
About Heritage
Heritage Financial Corporation is an Olympia-based bank holding company with
Heritage Bank, a full-service commercial bank, as its sole
wholly-owned banking subsidiary. Heritage Bank has a branching
network of 49 banking offices in Washington and Oregon. Heritage Bank also does business under
the Whidbey Island Bank name on Whidbey Island. Heritage's stock is
traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol
"HFWA". More information about Heritage Financial Corporation
can be found on its website at www.hf-wa.com and more information
about Heritage Bank can be found on its website at
www.heritagebanknw.com.
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