Company: USCB
Filing Date: 2025-04-22
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000927089-25-000082
Chunk: 28

Company: USCB FINANCIAL HOLDINGS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-22
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 28
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 statements included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024. These amounts do not represent actual amounts paid to or realized by our directors for these awards during fiscal year 2024. The restricted stock awards vested fully as of April 30, 2024. |

| (10) | No options were granted to non-employee directors during the year ended December 31, 2024. As of December 31, 2024, each of our non-employee directors held the following outstanding and unexercised stock options to purchase shares of Class A Common Stock. All of the options are fully vested. |

| Name                |     |     Options 
 Outstanding |
| Ramón Abadin        |     |       9,000 |
| Maria C. Alonso     |     |       5,000 |
| Howard P. Feinglass |     |      11,500 |
| Bernardo Fernandez  |     |       9,000 |
| Robert E. Kafafian  |     |       5,000 |
| Aida Levitan, Ph.D. |     |      14,000 |
| Ramon A. Rodriguez  |     |       5,000 |
| W. Kirk Wycoff      |     |      11,500 |

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| EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION |

Compensation Philosophy

General Philosophy.As an organization, we focus on successfully addressing client needs, maintaining critical quality standards and driving superior shareholder value, and our overall compensation philosophy is a direct reflection of those values. Our executive compensation program carries out these values by rewarding our named executive officers for the achievement of specific corporate goals and the realization of increased value to our shareholders. Our goal is to maintain compensation that is affordable to USCB Financial Holdings and U.S. Century Bank, fair to our executives and in the long-term best interests of our shareholders. We target overall base compensation levels that are at or slightly above the median for the markets in which we operate and aim to provide short-term incentive opportunities that we believe are generally in line with those of our peers but allow for more substantial rewards for exceptional performance. Specifically, the compensation committee generally strives to maintain compensation at levels ranging from the applicable peer median to the 75 percentile of the peer group. In addition, we provide our executive officers the opportunity to participate in the long-term success of USCB Financial Holdings by awarding grants of equity, initially stock options