---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000943374-25-000187"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CPBI"
cik: "0001979332"
company_name: "Central Plains Bancshares, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-05-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T19:28:27.122681+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Central Plains Bancshares names Danny Garness President and CEO, effective May 20, 2025

## Summary
- Danny Garness appointed President and CEO of Company and its bank subsidiary, effective May 20, 2025.
- Garness has over 25 years banking experience, most recently as EVP and Chief Lending Officer at Field & Main Bank.
- Steven D. Kunzman retires as President/CEO but remains Chairman of the Board of both entities.
- Garness will receive stock options, stock awards, and an employment agreement; no related party transactions disclosed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000943374-25-000187
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CPBI
- cik: 0001979332
- company_name: Central Plains Bancshares, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-05-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1979332/000094337425000187/0000943374-25-000187-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1979332/000094337425000187/form8k_042925-cpbi.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000943374-25-000187.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Danny Garness was appointed as President and Chief Executive Officer at Central Plains Bancshares, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: President and Chief Executive Officer
  source text: appointed Danny Garness as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company and the Bank, effective May 20, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1979332/000094337425000187/0000943374-25-000187-index.htm
- Executive change
  Steven D. Kunzman departed as President and Chief Executive Officer at Central Plains Bancshares, Inc..
  - Action: retire
  - Role: President and Chief Executive Officer
  source text: Steven D. Kunzman will retire as President and Chief Executive Officer, but will remain as Chairman of the Board of the Company and the Bank.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1979332/000094337425000187/0000943374-25-000187-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.