Susan E. Lester

Ms. Lester is a Director of PacWest Bancorp and Pacific Western Bank and is the Chairperson of their respective Audit Committees and member of each of their respective ALM, Risk and Executive Committees. Ms. Lester has served as a public director for The Options Clearing Corporation, an equity derivatives clearing organization where she chairs the Audit Committee and is a member of the Governance and Nominating Committee since April 2016. Ms. Lester is also a trustee of the Francis Parker School where she serves as the board chair elect and as a member of the Compensation Committee. Previously, Ms. Lester served as the Francis Parker School’s chair of the Finance Committee. Ms. Lester served as a director of Arctic Cat, Inc., a publicly traded company, from 2004 to March 2017 where she chaired the Audit Committee and was a member of the Governance Committee. Ms. Lester served as a director from December 2010 until January 2014, where she was a member of the Audit, Governance and Risk and Compliance Committees of Lender Processing Services, Inc. Ms. Lester is a former trustee and treasurer of Hazeltine National Golf Club and a former chair of the Board of Trustees of the College of St. Benedict.