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Management Team

From Forms 3, 4 and 5 filed in the last 18 months
Officer Age In this role Joined 2024 pay Source
Thomas C. Shafer Also a director
Chief Executive Officer
Title from the Form 4 dated Apr 1, 2026
66 Not stated Not stated $4,013,755
James Britton
Chief Financial Officer
Title from the Form 4 dated Apr 1, 2026
Not stated Not stated Not stated $650,000
Simone Lagomarsino Also a director
President
Title from the Form 4 dated Apr 1, 2026
63 Not stated Not stated $483,843
Parham Medhat
Executive Vice President, Chief Operations Officer
Title from the Form 3 dated Oct 20, 2025
Not stated Not stated Not stated Not reported
Dean Glassberg
EVP, Chief Credit Officer
Title from the Form 3 dated Oct 14, 2025
Not stated Not stated Not stated Not reported
John Hakopian
President, FFA
Title from the Form 4 dated Apr 1, 2026
Not stated Not stated Not stated $1,079,000
Stuart Bernstein
Chief Banking Officer of First Foundation Bank
Title from the Form 3 dated Aug 11, 2025
Not stated Not stated Not stated Not reported

Each officer opens the passage of the filing that names them. A title that changed since the list comes from the officer's latest Form 3, 4 or 5, and its start year is not stated there. "Not stated" means the filing does not say. Pay is the proxy's Summary Compensation Table, which reports only the named executive officers.

Board of Directors

From the proxy statement filed Apr 17, 2025 · updated by the 8-K of Apr 1, 2026

Directors
10
serving now
Independent
6 of 6
stated in the proxy; 4 not stated
Average tenure
6.1 years
from year joined
CEO also chairs the board
No
Max A. Briggs, CFP
Director Age On board Independent Committees Other public boards 2024 pay Source
Max A. Briggs, CFP
59 2012
13 years
Not stated None stated None stated Not stated
Thomas C. Shafer
66 2024
1 year
Not stated None stated None stated Paid as CEO
Simone Lagomarsino
63 2024
1 year
Not stated None stated None stated Not stated
Sam Edelson
35 2024
1 year
Independent None stated None stated $70,000
Henchy R. Enden
52 2024
1 year
Independent None stated None stated Not stated
Benjamin Mackovak
44 2024
1 year
Independent None stated BankFinancial Corp (NASDAQ: BFIN) $70,000
Elizabeth A. Pagliarini
54 2019
6 years
Independent None stated None stated $140,000
C. Allen Parker
70 2024
1 year
Independent None stated None stated $23,334
Mitchell M. Rosenberg, Ph.D.
71 2007
18 years
Independent None stated None stated Not stated
Jacob P. Sonenshine, J.D., CFA
54 2007
18 years
Not stated None stated None stated Not stated

Each director opens the passage of the proxy that names them. "Not stated" means the proxy does not say; it never means "no". Pay is the proxy's Director Compensation table; the CEO is paid as an executive.

2 disclosed in the proxy filed Apr 17, 2025
Zane Keller
son of Ulrich E. Keller, Jr.
Approximately $175,000
2024

Employment of Zane Keller as Director of Strategic Initiatives; paid total compensation by FFA.

With First Foundation Advisors Open in proxy
Trevor Kavanaugh
son of Scott F. Kavanaugh
Approximately $130,000
2024

Employment of Trevor Kavanaugh as VP, Vendor Manager; paid total compensation by FFB.

With FFB Open in proxy

The proxy also says directors, officers or their families deal with the company in the ordinary course of business, on the same terms as others. Those are not conflicts and are not listed. Read it in the proxy

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