---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001521951-22-000043"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FBIZ"
cik: "0001521951"
company_name: "FIRST BUSINESS FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC."
filed_at: "2022-05-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-25T09:10:09.452362+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# First Business Financial Services CFO Ed Sloane to retire Mar 2023; CAO Brian Spielmann named successor

## Summary
- CFO Edward G. Sloane Jr. will retire on March 31, 2023 after 6+ years in role.
- Chief Accounting Officer Brian D. Spielmann to succeed him as CFO effective same date.
- Spielmann to serve as Deputy CFO and CAO until the transition; he joined in 2006.
- Sloane built the finance team and will remain through a 10-month transition period.
- Spielmann has led strategic planning, capital planning, and investor relations.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001521951-22-000043
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FBIZ
- cik: 0001521951
- company_name: FIRST BUSINESS FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC.
- filed_at: 2022-05-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1521951/000152195122000043/0001521951-22-000043-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1521951/000152195122000043/fbiz-20220518.htm

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- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001521951-22-000043.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001521951-22-000043.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Edward G. Sloane, Jr. departed as Chief Financial Officer at FIRST BUSINESS FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC..
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On May 18, 2022, Edward G. Sloane, Jr., Chief Financial Officer of First Business Financial Services, Inc. (the “Company”), notified the Company that he intends to retire on March 31, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1521951/000152195122000043/0001521951-22-000043-index.htm
- Executive change
  Brian D. Spielmann was appointed as Chief Financial Officer at FIRST BUSINESS FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC..
  - Action: appoint
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: The Company plans to appoint Brian D. Spielmann, the Company’s Chief Accounting Officer, to succeed Mr. Sloane as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer upon Mr. Sloane’s retirement.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1521951/000152195122000043/0001521951-22-000043-index.htm

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