Robert J. Dowdell joined Prosperity Bank in 2008 as President of the River Oaks Banking Center, became Regional President of the Houston Area in 2009, and was promoted to Executive Vice President of the Company and the Bank in 2015. He assumed additional operational duties and joined the Executive Committee in 2018. Prior to the Bank he worked for the predecessor of First Republic Bank of Texas from 1978 to 1988 and as Senior Vice President of large commercial lending at Compass Bank, Houston, from 1988 to 2008.