---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001214659-23-003623"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "VLY"
cik: "0000714310"
company_name: "VALLEY NATIONAL BANCORP"
filed_at: "2023-03-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-18T09:02:32.850815+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Valley National Bancorp appoints Dafna Landau to board as Bank Leumi designee

## Summary
- Dafna Landau appointed as director effective February 28, 2023.
- She is designee of Bank Leumi under April 1, 2022 Investor Rights Agreement.
- Landau heads Bank Leumi's Construction & Real Estate Subdivision since 2018.
- Expected to serve on Nominating, Governance and Corporate Sustainability Committee.
- Appointment unrelated to any material transaction under Item 404(a).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001214659-23-003623
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: VLY
- cik: 0000714310
- company_name: VALLEY NATIONAL BANCORP
- filed_at: 2023-03-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/714310/000121465923003623/0001214659-23-003623-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/714310/000121465923003623/j372308k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001214659-23-003623
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001214659-23-003623.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001214659-23-003623.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Dafna Landau was appointed as director at VALLEY NATIONAL BANCORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: director
  source text: On February 28, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Valley National Bancorp (the “Company”) appointed Dafna Landau as a director of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/714310/000121465923003623/0001214659-23-003623-index.htm

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