---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001493152-24-008712"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LARK"
cik: "0001141688"
company_name: "LANDMARK BANCORP INC"
filed_at: "2024-03-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-05T04:34:19.006598+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Landmark Bancorp appoints Abigail Wendel as CEO; Michael Scheopner to retire in 2024

## Summary
- Abigail Wendel named President and CEO of Landmark Bancorp and Landmark National Bank, effective March 29, 2024.
- Wendel's employment terms: $480k base salary, $100k cash incentive, 40,000 stock options at $19.43, and 5,000 RSUs.
- Outgoing CEO Michael Scheopner will serve as non-executive employee through Dec 31, 2024; salary drops to $10k/month from July 1.
- All unvested stock awards for Scheopner will fully vest on transition date; he remains a director until 2025 annual meeting.
- Wendel previously was President of Consumer Banking at UMB Bank ($44B assets), overseeing 800+ associates.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001493152-24-008712
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LARK
- cik: 0001141688
- company_name: LANDMARK BANCORP INC
- filed_at: 2024-03-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1141688/000149315224008712/0001493152-24-008712-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1141688/000149315224008712/form8-k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001493152-24-008712
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001493152-24-008712.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Abigail M. Wendel was appointed as President and Chief Executive Officer at LANDMARK BANCORP INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: President and Chief Executive Officer
  source text: On March 4, 2024, Landmark Bancorp, Inc. (the “Company”) announced that it has appointed Abigail M. Wendel to serve as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company and Landmark National Bank, its wholly-owned bank subsidiary (the “Bank”), effective on the transition date, which is currently anticipated to be March 29, 2024 (the “Transition Date”), and will join their respective boards of directors.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1141688/000149315224008712/0001493152-24-008712-index.htm
- Executive change
  Michael E. Scheopner departed as President and Chief Executive Officer at LANDMARK BANCORP INC.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: President and Chief Executive Officer
  source text: Mr. Scheopner will retire as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company and the Bank, effective on the Transition Date.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1141688/000149315224008712/0001493152-24-008712-index.htm

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