On November 14, 2024, the Board of Directors of Valley National Bancorp appointed Nitzan Sandor as a director of the Company to serve until the next annual meeting of shareholders of the Company and until her successor is duly elected and qualified, subject to her earlier resignation or removal. The Board has determined that Ms. Sandor is an independent director and has appointed her to serve on the Nominating, Governance and Corporate Sustainability Committee and the Risk Committee of the Board. Ms. Sandor serves as Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Counsel of Bank Leumi Le-Israel B.M. Prior to taking on this role at Bank Leumi in September 2024, Ms. Sandor served as Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Counsel of Israel Discount Bank from August 2022 until July 2024.
While at IDB, Ms. Sandor also served as a director of its subsidiaries, Israel Discount Bank of New York from October 2022 until July 2024 and Israel Credit Cards Ltd. from September 2023 until May 2024. Prior to joining IDB, Ms. Sandor was a partner at the Israeli law firm FISCHER (FBC & Co.) (?FISCHER?) from January 2013 until June 2022 and served as Co-Head of the firm?s Capital Markets practice in 2022 prior to her departure. Ms. Sandor began her career at FISCHER as an intern in March 2004 and became an associate at the firm in June 2005.
Ms. Sandor received her Bachelor of Laws degree from Tel Aviv University in 2004.