Board of Directors

Steven Retzloff serves as Chairman of Stellar Bank and of Stellar Bancorp, Inc. With 30 years of Houston banking experience, he served as Director, and twice as Chairman, of a publicly traded multi-billion-dollar financial institution. His past work experience also includes General Motors, Bristol Myers, Retzloff Capital Corporation and CEO of Travis Body & Trailer, Inc. Additionally, Steve serves on the Board of Greater Houston Partnership, Faith in Practice, and as Board Member, Chair of Finance Committee and Treasurer of Houston Food Bank. He also serves as an advisory director at Open Door Mission. Past affiliations include a trustee of Kinkaid School and as Vice President of the Kinkaid School Investments Foundation. As a native Texan and a lifelong Houstonian, he received an Industrial Engineering degree from The Georgia Institute of Technology in 1979 and an MBA with distinction from the Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University in 1981.