secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     CIVISTA BANCSHARES, INC. (CIVB)
CIK:        0000944745
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-10-01T11:30:13+00:00
Accession:  0001193125-26-409817
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.25
Item codes: 8.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4.1-flash:cloud@v2

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

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/944745/000119312526409817/0001193125-26-409817-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/944745/000119312526409817/civb-20261001.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-26-409817

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