Metropolitan Bank Holding Corp. and Metropolitan Commercial Bank announced that Chaya Pamula and Katrina A. Robinson were appointed to the Boards of Directors of both the Company and the Bank effective October 25, 2021. Ms. Pamula is an accomplished technologist, philanthropist and entrepreneur, and Ms. Robinson is a trust company CEO. The impressive academic backgrounds and professional accomplishments of both Ms. Pamula and Ms. Robinson align with the Company?s core client base and its footprint in the global payments sector. Ms. Pamula is co-founder, President and CEO of PamTen Inc. and founder of SheTek and SOFKIN. She has over 25 years of information technology experience and has led many productivity initiatives that involved business process improvement, business transformation/re-engineering and IT portfolio optimization. Ms. Robinson is the CEO and Director of the Board of Teton Trust Company LLC. David Gavrin, a founding director and former Chairman of the Board of the Company, announced his retirement, effective December 31, 2021 to spend more time with his family and pursue the philanthropic endeavors he is so very passionate about.