MidSouth Bancorp, Inc. (NYSE:MSL) Files An 8-K Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
Item 5.02. DEPARTURE OF DIRECTORS OR CERTAIN OFFICERS; ELECTION OF DIRECTORS; APPOINTMENT OF CERTAIN OFFICERS; COMPENSATORY ARRANGEMENTS OF CERTAIN OFFICERS.
On December 12, 2018, the Board of Directors of MidSouth Bancorp, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed William F. Grant, III as a member of the Company’s Board of Directors effective immediately. Mr. Grant will serve as a Class III director with a term expiring at the Company’s annual meeting of shareholders in 2020. Mr. Grant joined the Company on September 10, 2018 in an advisory capacity pending the receipt of regulatory approval for his appointment with the Company that has now been obtained. Mr. Grant was also appointed to the Company’s Audit Committee and Corporate Governance, Nominating and Compensation Committee. As a director, Mr. Grant will be entitled to receive compensation for his services in the form of board fees and equity awards as provided in the Company’s proxy statement regarding director compensation.
Mr. Grant (age 69) is currently an Organizer and Founding Director of Grasshopper Bank, NA, headquartered in New York, NY and providing commercial banking products and technology services to the entrepreneurial and startup businesses in New York. He was also an Organizer and Founding Director from 2005 to 2015 of Square 1 Bank and Square 1 Financial, Inc., headquartered in Durham, NC with loan production offices nationwide. Square 1 was a state-chartered banking company serving the venture capital, entrepreneurial and start- up communities. On October 6, 2015, it was acquired by PacWest, Inc., Los Angeles, CA. Mr. Grant was also appointed a Director by the US Treasury Department to the Board of FSG Bank, NA and First Security Group, Inc., in 2012. On October 31, 2015, FSG, Inc. was acquired by Atlantic Capital Bank, Inc., Atlanta, GA. Prior to this, Mr. Grant joined the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) in 1973 and was commissioned a National Bank Examiner responsible for both large and community banks. He was a Field Manager, Regional Director for Consumer Compliance and Deputy Regional Director for Special Surveillance and was selected in 1982 as Director for Staffing and National Recruitment and in 1984 became the first OCC Director for Banking Relations, responsible for regulatory liaison with both national and state financial trade associations, and State Banking Departments. Mr. Grant is an Emeritus member of the Executive Partner Program for the Mason School of Business at the College of William and Mary and is past Chairman of the Business Advisory Council for the College of Business at East Carolina University.
About MidSouth Bancorp, Inc. (NYSE:MSL)
MidSouth Bancorp, Inc. is a financial holding company. The Company operates primarily through its wholly owned bank subsidiary, MidSouth Bank, N.A. The Company is operating principally in the community banking business by providing banking services to commercial and retail customers through the Bank. The Bank is community oriented and focuses primarily on offering commercial and consumer loan and deposit services to individuals and small to middle market businesses in Louisiana, and central and east Texas. Deposit products and services offered by the Bank include interest-bearing and noninterest-bearing checking accounts, investment accounts, cash management services and electronic banking services, including remote deposit capturing services, Internet banking, and debit and credit cards. Loans offered by the Bank include commercial and industrial loans, commercial real estate loans (both owner-occupied and non-owner occupied), other loans secured by real estate and consumer loans.
