Banner Corporation 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.