Susan Riel has added experience to her team at Eagle Bancorp in Bethesda, Md. The $9.9 billion-asset company said in a press release Tuesday that it has hired Sam Pepper as chief operating officer and Jeff Curry as chief risk officer of unit EagleBank. The executives will report to Riel, Eagle Bancorp's president and CEO. The new positions were created to strengthen "the overall operational and strategic management of the bank," the company said in its release. Riel was promoted in early 2019 to succeed Ronald Paul as CEO of Eagle Bancorp and its bank. The company's board was overhauled later that year. Eagle has been dealing with a series of probes into its treatment of related-party transactions and ties to Jack Evans, a former Washington councilman who resigned this year after accusations of ethics violations.