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Harold Gilkey co-founded Sterling Savings Bank, a state-chartered, federally insured stock savings and loan association in 1981 and served as chairman from 1981 through 2004. Since that time, he has served as the chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Sterling Financial Corporation and three subsidiaries of Sterling Savings Bank: INTERVEST-Mortgage Investment Company, Action Mortgage Company, and Harbor Financial Services, Inc. Prior to his tenure at Sterling, he was President of Bancshares Mortgage Company of Spokane, senior vice president of Old National Bank of Spokane, and employed by Bank of America for 12 years. He is a past director of the Washington Savings League and a member of the Savings Association Insurance Fund Industry Advisory Committee, an advisory committee of the FDIC. Gilkey received his degree in business administration from the University of Montana in 1962 and his master of business administration from the University of Southern California in 1970. | 