Bayfirst Financial Corp.
05/21/2026 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 05/21/2026 07:29
Management Change/Compensation (Form 8-K)
Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory.
On May 14, 2026, the BayFirst Financial Corp. (the "Company") received the non-objection of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, to appoint Alfred ("Al") T. Rogers, Jr. to serve as the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer, principal executive officer, and as a member of its Board of Directors. As previously disclosed, Mr. Rogers assumed those positions at that time.
Mr. Rogers, age 61, and began his banking career at First Union National Bank. Upon completion of that bank's training program, he served as a Commercial Banker in the Tampa, Lakeland, and Nashville markets from 1987 to 1997. In 1997, Mr. Rogers joined Manufacturers Bank of Florida in Tampa, where he served as Chief Executive Officer and a member of its board of directors. During this time, he was involved in all aspects of expanding the bank through organic growth as well as the acquisition of Partners Savings Bank of Tampa. In 2001, Mr. Rogers was instrumental in selling Manufacturers Bank of Florida to Colonial Bank and began serving Colonial Bank as President and Senior Lender of the Tampa Bay market. Mr. Rogers joined USAmeriBank in 2007 as its Executive Lending Officer. Under his leadership, that bank grew from its 2007 de novo status to the Tampa Bay area's largest independent community bank, with assets of more than $4.6 billion. Upon the acquisition of USAmeriBank by Valley National Bank in January 2018, Mr. Rogers serves as Valley National Bank's Executive Vice President and Chief Lending Officer for Florida and Alabama until August of 2022, when he retired from those positions.
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