---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001419536-23-000071"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CBNK"
cik: "0001419536"
company_name: "Capital Bancorp Inc"
filed_at: "2023-04-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-17T02:33:34.280345+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Capital Bancorp names Steve Poynot as Bank President; Scot Browning shifts to Specialty & CRE Lending

## Summary
- Steve Poynot, EVP/COO, becomes President of Capital Bank effective April 17, 2023, retaining COO role.
- Scot R. Browning transitions from President/CLO to President of Specialty & CRE Lending, remains a director.
- Bank plans to hire a new Chief Lending Officer.
- Employment agreements amended for both executives reflecting new roles.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001419536-23-000071
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CBNK
- cik: 0001419536
- company_name: Capital Bancorp Inc
- filed_at: 2023-04-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1419536/000141953623000071/0001419536-23-000071-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1419536/000141953623000071/cbnk-20230410.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001419536-23-000071
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001419536-23-000071.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001419536-23-000071.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Scot R. Browning changed role as President of Specialty & CRE Lending at Capital Bancorp Inc.
  - Action: transitioned
  - Role: President of Specialty & CRE Lending
  source text: the Bank’s current President and Chief Lending Officer, Scot R. Browning, will transition to President of Specialty & CRE Lending of the Bank, reporting to the President of the Bank.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1419536/000141953623000071/0001419536-23-000071-index.htm
- Executive change
  Steve Poynot was appointed as President of the Bank at Capital Bancorp Inc.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: President of the Bank
  source text: On April 13, 2023, Capital Bancorp, Inc. (the “Company”), the bank holding company for Capital Bank, N.A. (the “Bank”), announced the transition of Steve Poynot, the Bank’s current Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, to the position of President of the Bank, to be effective Monday, April 17, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1419536/000141953623000071/0001419536-23-000071-index.htm

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