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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-26-409817"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CIVB"
cik: "0000944745"
company_name: "CIVISTA BANCSHARES, INC."
filed_at: "2026-10-01T11:30:13+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-10-12T14:14:48.028415+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Civista Bancshares names Mark J. Sams Senior Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer

## Summary
- Sams will oversee Treasury Management, Wealth Management, Private Banking, and Healthcare Solutions on the executive leadership teams of Civista Bancshares and Civista Bank.
- He has led those business lines since January 2026, when he was promoted to Senior Vice President, Senior Revenue Officer.
- Sams has more than 25 years of banking experience and joined United Community Bank in 2014 as Chief Credit Officer, moving to Civista after its 2018 UCB acquisition.
- CEO Chuck Parcher said Sams "has the credit discipline and the market experience this bank wants guiding these lines of business."
- The 8-K, signed by SVP & CFO Ian Whinnem, reports Item 8.01 Other Events and Item 9.01, with the press release filed as Exhibit 99.1.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-26-409817
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CIVB
- cik: 0000944745
- company_name: CIVISTA BANCSHARES, INC.
- filed_at: 2026-10-01T11:30:13+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/944745/000119312526409817/0001193125-26-409817-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/944745/000119312526409817/civb-20261001.htm

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