---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001488813-22-000009"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CUBI"
cik: "0001488813"
company_name: "Customers Bancorp, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-01-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T14:55:48.362317+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Customers Bancorp appoints Brigadier General Bernard B. Banks and Robert N. Mackay to board

## Summary
- Banks (Associate Dean at Kellogg School) and Mackay (CEO of Regnology) appointed directors effective Jan 26, 2022.
- Board size increases to nine members; Banks is Class II (term expiring 2022), Mackay Class III (2023).
- Both will serve on the ESG Committee and Directors' Risk Committee.
- Compensation follows standard non-employee director package, pro-rated for the current fiscal year.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001488813-22-000009
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CUBI
- cik: 0001488813
- company_name: Customers Bancorp, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-01-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1488813/000148881322000009/0001488813-22-000009-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1488813/000148881322000009/cubi-20220126.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001488813-22-000009.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Bernard B. Banks was appointed as director at Customers Bancorp, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: director
  source text: On January 26, 2022, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of Customers Bancorp, Inc. (the "Company"), appointed Army Brigadier General Bernard B. Banks and Robert N. Mackay to serve as a directors, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1488813/000148881322000009/0001488813-22-000009-index.htm
- Executive change
  Robert N. Mackay was appointed as director at Customers Bancorp, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: director
  source text: On January 26, 2022, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of Customers Bancorp, Inc. (the "Company"), appointed Army Brigadier General Bernard B. Banks and Robert N. Mackay to serve as a directors, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1488813/000148881322000009/0001488813-22-000009-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.