---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001174850-25-000047"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NIC"
cik: "0001174850"
company_name: "NICOLET BANKSHARES INC"
filed_at: "2025-09-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T07:14:06.668818+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Nicolet Bankshares extends CEO Mike Daniels through 2030; awards $12M in equity

## Summary
- CEO Mike Daniels committed to lead Nicolet through year-end 2030; equity award of $12M (90,000 shares) granted.
- Award includes 30,000 restricted shares cliff-vesting in 2030, and up to 60,000 performance-based RSUs tied to ROA percentile and cumulative EPS targets over 2026-2030.
- Nicolet founded by Daniels in 2000; now ~$9B in assets, near top of peer performance.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001174850-25-000047
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NIC
- cik: 0001174850
- company_name: NICOLET BANKSHARES INC
- filed_at: 2025-09-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1174850/000117485025000047/0001174850-25-000047-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1174850/000117485025000047/nic-20250908.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001174850-25-000047.txt

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