---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-25-012293"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WSBF"
cik: "0001569994"
company_name: "Waterstone Financial, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-04-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T11:52:59.840757+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Director Michael Hansen to retire after 22 years; stays until successor elected

## Summary
- Michael Hansen, director since 2003, will retire from Waterstone Financial board.
- He remains as Audit Committee chair and board member until a successor is elected.
- Hansen plans to sell shares as part of retirement and estate planning.
- Chairman Patrick Lawton thanked Hansen for 22 years of service; successor search underway.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-25-012293
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WSBF
- cik: 0001569994
- company_name: Waterstone Financial, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-04-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1569994/000143774925012293/0001437749-25-012293-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1569994/000143774925012293/wsbf20250416_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-25-012293
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-25-012293.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-25-012293.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Michael Hansen retired as Director at Waterstone Financial, Inc..
  - Action: retired
  - Role: Director
  source text: On April 17, 2025, Waterstone Financial, Inc. (the “Company”), announced today that Michael Hansen has decided to retire as a Director of the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiary WaterStone Bank SSB.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1569994/000143774925012293/0001437749-25-012293-index.htm

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