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Issuer:     California BanCorp \ CA (BCAL)
CIK:        0001795815
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2024-01-19T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001493152-24-002982
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.50
Item codes: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Southern California Bancorp announces retirement of Chairman Emeritus John Farkash
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- John Farkash retired as Chairman Emeritus and Director of the Company and its bank subsidiary, effective Jan 16, 2024, due to health reasons.
- Farkash was a founding director in 2002, served as chairman for nearly 20 years; under his leadership assets grew to $1.6B.
- CEO David Rainer acknowledged Farkash's contributions; no disagreement existed regarding operations or policies.
- Press release issued Jan 19, 2024, announcing the retirement.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1795815/000149315224002982/0001493152-24-002982-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1795815/000149315224002982/form8-k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001493152-24-002982

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