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Douglas Dell is Vice President – Executive Leader Learning & Development for Sedgwick. An accomplished leader in training, talent development and learning ecosystems, he is currently creating and implementing L&D for Sedgwick Property Americas spanning early career programs for apprentices and interns to the next generation and focused on advanced managerial, technical, and executive leadership including career paths and learning journeys. He concurrently manages the commercial learning services of Vale Training and Consulting Services, supporting technical skills for insurance adjusting and estimating professionals, skills assessments, professional certifications, and continuing education. Formerly, he held learning leadership roles at Crawford & Company, NCR and Philips Healthcare. Previously, he was the board advisor and Chairman of the Atlanta chapter of the Association for Talent Development and a member of the graduate faculty for the University of Phoenix; and a current board member of EVTEC - a certification standard for Electric Vehicle technicians and estimators.

Charles C. Roberts, Jr. is president of C. Roberts Consulting Engineers, Inc. (http://www.croberts.com). He has a bachelors degree, masters degree and a Ph.D. in engineering. He has worked as a consulting engineer in the area of accident reconstruction and failure analysis since 1976. He has published several books and articles on accident reconstruction, failure analysis and history.

The North Carolina bank agreed to offload Sterling Capital Management to Guardian Capital Group in Toronto. It's the latest step in the effort to simplify Truist.

The San Francisco company entered into a pact with its regulator when it acquired Radius Bank three years ago. "The operating agreement, by design, in some ways slows you down," said CEO Scott Sanborn.

Valley National, based in Morristown, New Jersey, has a high exposure to commercial-property loans relative to its peers. The bank reported that almost half its $50.2 billion loan book was in commercial real estate as of Dec. 31, with heavy exposure to New York, Florida and New Jersey.

Dogwood State Bank and Community First Bancorp plan an all-stock deal to create a $2.2 billion bank, technology firm Fiserv announces a partnership with the National Hockey League's New Jersey Devils, former Texas secretary of state will join Cullen/Frost's board and more in our weekly banking news roundup.

Wilbur Swan is the CEO of Catchlight, a software startup incubated within Fidelity Labs, where he serves as a managing director.

Prior to Fidelity, he led commercialization of the Thomson Reuters enterprise data and AI platform and was a co-founder of ContactNet, which was acquired by Thomson Reuters. He is an accomplished speaker, innovator and thought leader at the intersection of technology, data and artificial intelligence.