Company: OSBC
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001558370-25-005000
Chunk: 14

Company: OLD SECOND BANCORP INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 14
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Biographical Information for Executive Officers

| ​                  | ​ | ​                                                                             |
| Name               |   | Title                                                                         |
| James Eccher       | ​ | Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company and the Bank   |
| Bradley Adams      | ​ | Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer |
| Gary Collins       | ​ | Vice Chairman                                                                 |
| Donald Pilmer      | ​ | Executive Vice President, Chief Lending Officer                               |
| Richard Gartelmann | ​ | Executive Vice President, Wealth Management                                   |

Because each of Mr. Eccher and Mr. Collins also serves on our board of directors, we have provided biographical information for them above. Biographical information for each of Mr. Adams, Mr. Gartelmann and Mr. Pilmer is provided below: Mr. Adams, age 51, joined the Company and the Bank in May 2017 to serve as an Executive Vice President and our Chief Financial Officer. Since August 2023, Mr. Adams also serves as the Chief Operating Officer of the Company and the Bank. From November 2016 until joining us, he served as Executive Vice President and Director of Corporate Development and Strategy for TCF National Bank, where he oversaw corporate development and strategy. Before that, he served as Executive Managing Director, Corporate Development, of Talmer Bancorp, Inc. from 2011 until 2016. While at Talmer, Mr. Adams was responsible for management of internal financial reporting, budgeting, mortgage bank accounting, investor relations, strategic planning and corporate development activities. Prior to joining Talmer, Mr. Adams also held positions as Managing Director of W2 Freedom, LLC, a private investment fund manager focused on investing in community banks, and as Director of Investor Relations for Fifth Third Bancorp. Mr. Pilmer, age 60, joined the Company and the Bank in 1989. He currently serves as Executive Vice President (a position he has held since 2012) and as Chief Lending Officer (a position he has held since 2016). Mr. Pilmer manages the Commercial Banking unit and has more than 29 years of experience in the Commercial Banking industry Mr. Gartelmann,age 56, joined the Company and the Bank in 2011. He currently serves as Executive Vice President (a position he has held since 2018) and Head of Wealth Management (a position he has held since 2016). Before that, he was Senior Vice President and