---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001171843-21-007349"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WABC"
cik: "0000311094"
company_name: "WESTAMERICA BANCORPORATION"
filed_at: "2021-11-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T15:54:32.735983+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Westamerica Bancorp appoints Inez Wondeh as independent director effective Dec 16, 2021

## Summary
- Inez Wondeh appointed as independent director effective December 16, 2021.
- Wondeh is CEO of BASS Medical Group and holds MPA and MBA from University of San Francisco.
- She founded Ngozi Educational and Health Care Foundation in 2018.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001171843-21-007349
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WABC
- cik: 0000311094
- company_name: WESTAMERICA BANCORPORATION
- filed_at: 2021-11-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/311094/000117184321007349/0001171843-21-007349-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/311094/000117184321007349/f8k_110121.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001171843-21-007349
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001171843-21-007349.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001171843-21-007349.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Inez Wondeh was appointed as independent member of the Board of Directors at WESTAMERICA BANCORPORATION.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: independent member of the Board of Directors
  source text: the Westamerica Bancorporation Board of Directors appointed Inez Wondeh to serve as an independent member of the Board of Directors effective December 16, 2021
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/311094/000117184321007349/0001171843-21-007349-index.htm

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