Company: BCTF
Filing Date: 2025-03-06
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001552781-25-000058
Chunk: 872

Company: Bancorp 34, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-06
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 2
Chunk 872
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 in Leadership for the Chandler Chamber of Commerce. Ms.
Ralls’ One Big Life personal brand has been featured in “Think and Grow Rich for Women” by Sharon Lechter, as well
as “Discover Your Inner Strength,” which she co-authored with Ken Blanchard, Stephen Covey, and Brian Tracy. Ms. Ralls has
earned a BS from Ithaca College, an MBA from Arizona State University and a Ph.D. from Nova Southeastern University’s Wayne Huizenga’s
College of Business and Entrepreneurship. She has built and transitioned multiple businesses in Arizona, spanning many industries, including
healthcare, education, and banking, and has been dubbed a serial entrepreneur by Biz AZ magazine. Her experience with numerous company
mergers and associated integration of companies and cultures provides us with a strong resource for guidance pertaining to our business
expansion via strategic alliances and acquisitions.

Kevin
Ahern has 40 years of experience as an executive, entrepreneur, and operator in the
financial services industry including commercial banking, private equity, institutional investment management, alternative investments,
insurance, investment banking, and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Ahern is currently a co-founder and Managing Partner of Brush Creek
Partners, a private opportunistic investment vehicle focused on making investments in operating companies in the specialty finance, banking
and financial services, media, and business and consumer services sectors. He is also a Senior Advisor at
Castle Creek Capital, an alternative asset management firm that focuses on the community banking industry.

Mr. Ahern currently serves as Chairman
of the Board of InBankshares, Corp and InBank, the Bank of Idaho Holding Company, Horizon Bancorp, and GXIII, a New York-based
digital audio company. He is also Chairman of Investment Trust Company, a Colorado-based independent trust company.

Mr. Ahern is the former Founder, Chairman,
and CEO of CIC Bancshares, a bank holding company that was formed in 2009. Following CIC’s sale to Heartland Financial USA in 2016,
Mr. Ahern remained as Executive Chairman of Centennial Bank and as Chairman of the Board of Citywide Banks, a Colorado-chartered community
bank and Heartland Financial member bank through 2019.

Chris
Webster was appointed as the President of the Bank. Prior to the merger, Mr. Webster was
President and CEO of Commerce Bank of Arizona. Before joining Commerce Bank in 2014, he was President and a founding member of First
Scottsdale Bank, N