Mr. Lempres has been Chairman of the Board of Silvergate Capital Corporation and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Silvergate Bank, since June 2021.

Mr. Lempres was an executive in residence at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to his role at Andreessen Horowitz, he was chief legal and risk officer of Coinbase, Inc., the nation’s leading digital currency exchange, general counsel of BitNet, Inc., an early digital currency company, and the senior attorney at Silicon Valley Bank.

Mr. Lempres was earlier a White House Fellow and held positions in the U.S. Department of Justice, including deputy associate attorney general. He graduated from Dartmouth College and Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley.

Mr. Colucci owns and operates a private real estate company focused on the investment, management, and development of real estate opportunities in Southern California. Portfolio asset types include multi-family, office, industrial and single-family housing.

He has worked with Goldman Sachs, Inc. in the real estate investment-banking group in New York City. At Goldman Sachs he was involved in over $5 billion of CMBS transactions with underwriting oversight, rating agency and investor relations, and due diligence for the entire securitization process.

He also worked with Batchelder and Partners, a boutique investment bank focusing on mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance advisory services.

Mr. Colucci earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration from the University of San Diego.

Mr. Dircks is a Managing Director of Charterhouse Strategic Partners, a provider of strategically focused investments in growth companies in the United States.

Mr. Dircks was previously Managing Partner of Charterhouse Equity Partners and was responsible for managing and overseeing the investment of Charterhouse’s multi billion dollars of North America focused institutional private equity funds. Charterhouse was one of the earliest investors in private equity and raised funds and invested in middle market companies for over three decades.

Prior to joining Charterhouse, he was employed by PricewaterhouseCoopers as a certified public accountant.

He holds a B.S. in accounting and an M.B.A. from Fordham University. Mr. Dircks has served on the Board of Directors since 2003.

Scott A. Reed, partner, director and co-founder of BankCap Partners, has over 20 years of experience in the financial services and strategic consulting industries. Mr. Reed began his career as a derivatives trader with Swiss Bank Corporation.

After graduating from business school, he worked for Bain & Company as a consultant and later at Bear Stearns as an investment banker in its Financial Institutions Group. Before founding BankCap Partners, Mr. Reed was Senior Vice President, Director of Corporate Strategy and Planning for Carreker Corporation.

Mr. Reed is a graduate of the University of Virginia with a B.S. in Commerce and a B.A. in History. He received his MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, where he was an Edward Tuck Scholar. Currently, he serves on the advisory board of the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce.

In addition to serving on the board of Silvergate, he also serves as a director of Xenith Bankshares, a Richmond, Virginia, based commercial bank. Born and raised in the San Diego area, he now resides in Dallas with his wife Kelly and their four sons.

Ms Smith is an experience fiduciary and investment professional with over 30 years in the financial services industry.  Currently at Drivetrain LLC, she functions in roles that include independent board seat representation and management of post-bankruptcy trusts.  She is a co-founder of Restoration Capital Management LLC and formerly managed investments in distressed debt and equities at Tribeca Investments LLC.  She has prior experience in distressed advisory, mergers and acquisitions, valuation, and audit.  

She earned her MBA from NYU's Stern School of Business and her BS from Fordham.

Joseph D. Stilwell is the owner and managing member of Stilwell Value LLC, the General Partner of a group of funds known as The Stilwell Group. He graduated in 1983 from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science in Economics.