Member of the Board of Directors, Piper Sandler Companies
Member of the Board of Directors, Israel Discount Bank of New York

Before serving as a member of the Boards of Piper Sandler Companies and Israel Discount Bank of New York, Brian R. Sterling was a long-time investment banker, focused on the financial services industry, including as Managing Director for Piper Sandler & Co., and as Principal and Co-Head of Investment Banking at Sandler O’Neill + Partners. Previously, Brian was a Managing Director in the Investment Banking Group of Merrill Lynch and in the Corporate Finance Department of Wertheim Schroder & Co. Brian began his career in the Mergers & Acquisitions Department of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, an international law firm.

Mr. Sterling holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School. He lives in West Orange, New Jersey with his wife, Linda. Mr. Sterling also serves on the Boards of the Clara Maass Medical Center and the Medical Center Foundation, on the Finance and Operations Committee of the Board of Directors of the RWJBarnabas Health System, and on the Board of 70 Faces Media, a not-for-profit digital media company that is the largest and most diverse Jewish media organization in North America.