---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-194590"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CIVB"
cik: "0000944745"
company_name: "CIVISTA BANCSHARES, INC."
filed_at: "2023-07-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-13T02:40:39.163383+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.45
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Civista expands board from 10 to 14, appoints four new directors

## Summary
- Board increased from 10 to 14 directors; four vacancies filled immediately.
- New directors: John O. Bacon, Clyde A. Perfect Jr., Nathan Weaks, Gerald B. Wurm; all previously served on Civista Bank board.
- Committee assignments: Bacon on Compensation & Audit; Perfect on Nominating & Risk; Weaks on Audit & Risk; Wurm on Compensation & Audit.
- All four deemed independent under NASDAQ rules; standard non-employee director compensation.
- Terms expire at 2024 annual meeting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-194590
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CIVB
- cik: 0000944745
- company_name: CIVISTA BANCSHARES, INC.
- filed_at: 2023-07-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.45
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/944745/000119312523194590/0001193125-23-194590-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/944745/000119312523194590/d519610d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-194590.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Gerald B. Wurm was appointed as Director at CIVISTA BANCSHARES, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On July 25, 2023, upon the unanimous recommendation of its Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Civista Bancshares, Inc. (“Civista”) increased the size of the Board from ten directors to fourteen directors, thereby creating four vacancies on the Board, and appointed John O. Bacon, Clyde A. Perfect, Jr., Nathan Weaks and Gerald B. Wurm to the Board to fill the vacancies.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/944745/000119312523194590/0001193125-23-194590-index.htm
- Executive change
  Clyde A. Perfect, Jr. was appointed as Director at CIVISTA BANCSHARES, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On July 25, 2023, upon the unanimous recommendation of its Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Civista Bancshares, Inc. (“Civista”) increased the size of the Board from ten directors to fourteen directors, thereby creating four vacancies on the Board, and appointed John O. Bacon, Clyde A. Perfect, Jr., Nathan Weaks and Gerald B. Wurm to the Board to fill the vacancies.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/944745/000119312523194590/0001193125-23-194590-index.htm
- Executive change
  Nathan Weaks was appointed as Director at CIVISTA BANCSHARES, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On July 25, 2023, upon the unanimous recommendation of its Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Civista Bancshares, Inc. (“Civista”) increased the size of the Board from ten directors to fourteen directors, thereby creating four vacancies on the Board, and appointed John O. Bacon, Clyde A. Perfect, Jr., Nathan Weaks and Gerald B. Wurm to the Board to fill the vacancies.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/944745/000119312523194590/0001193125-23-194590-index.htm
- Executive change
  John O. Bacon was appointed as Director at CIVISTA BANCSHARES, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On July 25, 2023, upon the unanimous recommendation of its Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Civista Bancshares, Inc. (“Civista”) increased the size of the Board from ten directors to fourteen directors, thereby creating four vacancies on the Board, and appointed John O. Bacon, Clyde A. Perfect, Jr., Nathan Weaks and Gerald B. Wurm to the Board to fill the vacancies.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/944745/000119312523194590/0001193125-23-194590-index.htm

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