---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000730708-23-000051"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SBCF"
cik: "0000730708"
company_name: "SEACOAST BANKING CORP OF FLORIDA"
filed_at: "2023-07-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-13T04:36:29.252165+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Seacoast Banking expands board to 12, appoints former unit SVP Jay Shearouse

## Summary
- Board increased from 11 to 12; Joseph Shearouse appointed director effective July 20, 2023.
- Shearouse will stand for election as Class I director at 2024 annual meeting, term expiring 2027.
- Also appointed to Seacoast National Bank board; no committee assignments currently.
- Shearouse, 66, was Seacoast Bank SVP and Market Executive; previously CEO of First Bank of Palm Beaches until its 2020 sale to Seacoast.
- No familial relationships or reportable related-party transactions with any director or executive officer.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000730708-23-000051
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SBCF
- cik: 0000730708
- company_name: SEACOAST BANKING CORP OF FLORIDA
- filed_at: 2023-07-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/730708/000073070823000051/0000730708-23-000051-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/730708/000073070823000051/sbcf-20230720.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000730708-23-000051
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000730708-23-000051.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000730708-23-000051.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Joseph "Jay" B. Shearouse, III was appointed as director at SEACOAST BANKING CORP OF FLORIDA.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: director
  source text: On July 20, 2023, Seacoast Banking Corporation of Florida (the “Company”) increased the size of its board of directors from eleven to twelve and appointed Joseph “Jay” B. Shearouse, III as a director, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/730708/000073070823000051/0000730708-23-000051-index.htm

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