Company: USCB
Filing Date: 2025-04-22
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000927089-25-000082
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Company: USCB FINANCIAL HOLDINGS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-22
Form: DEF 14A
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.S. Century Bank since February 2022. Mr. Rodriguez served as the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Cable Insurance Company, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a property and casualty insurer focused on the commercial automotive market, from April 2021 until his retirement in 2023. From January 1999 until April 2020, he served on the board of directors of Republic Services, Inc., Phoenix, Arizona, a solid waste company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, including serving as the Chairman of the Board. From 2009 to 2015, he served as a director of Alico, Inc., Fort Myers, Florida, a holding company with assets and related operations in agricultural and environmental resources, including citrus, sugar cane, cattle, land, and wildlife management, listed on The Nasdaq Stock Market. In addition, Mr. Rodriguez was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Madsen, Sapp, Mena, Rodriguez & Co. (an accounting firm acquired by Crowe Horwath in 2006) from 1971 until his retirement from public accounting in 2009. He is also a former Chairman of the Florida Board of Accountancy as well as a former President of the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He was a founder, Treasurer, and a director of DME Corporation, a manufacturing company in the defense and aerospace sector, from 1975 to 2009. Mr. Rodriguez also served as a director of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) from 2015 to 2021. Mr. Rodriguez earned a B.S. in Accounting from Florida Atlantic University. He has also completed the Owner/President Management Program at Harvard Business School. We believe Mr. Rodriguez’s extensive accounting, business and director experience qualifies him to be a member of our board. Age 79.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
| W. Kirk Wycoff                                                         |     | Director of USCB Financial Holdings since its formation in 2021 and of U.S. Century Bank since 2015; he has served as lead director since January 2023. Mr. Wycoff is the Managing Partner of Patriot Financial Partners, a private equity fund headquartered in Radnor, Philadelphia, which has deployed over $1.0 billion in capital, maintaining a long-only, value-oriented buy and hold strategy designed to provide growth capital to financial services companies that require additional equity to grow. Prior to establishing Patriot Financial Partners, he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Continental Bank Holdings, Inc.