---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001723596-21-000105"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CLBK"
cik: "0001723596"
company_name: "Columbia Financial, Inc."
filed_at: "2021-07-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-30T01:05:48.851228+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Columbia Financial appoints Daria Torres to board effective July 27; total directors now ten

## Summary
- Daria Torres appointed to boards of Columbia Financial and Columbia Bank effective July 27, 2021.
- She will serve on the Audit Committee; board now has 10 members, 9 independent.
- Torres is founder and managing partner of Walls Torres Group; 20+ years strategy consulting.
- Background includes McKinsey engagement manager and Lockheed Martin systems engineer; holds degrees from UVA, UPenn, and Wharton MBA.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001723596-21-000105
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CLBK
- cik: 0001723596
- company_name: Columbia Financial, Inc.
- filed_at: 2021-07-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1723596/000172359621000105/0001723596-21-000105-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1723596/000172359621000105/clbk-20210729.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001723596-21-000105
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001723596-21-000105.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Daria Stacy-Walls Torres was appointed as director at Columbia Financial, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: director
  source text: On July 26, 2021, the Board of Directors of Columbia Financial, Inc. (the “Company”), Columbia Bank MHC (the “MHC”) and Columbia Bank (the “Bank”) appointed Daria Stacy-Walls Torres as a director of the Company, the MHC and the Bank effective as of July 27, 2021.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1723596/000172359621000105/0001723596-21-000105-index.htm

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