BCB BANCORP INC appointed Michael A. Shriner ("Mr. Shriner as new CEO

Item 5.02 
Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers. 


(c) Appointment of a New Principal Executive Officer and President. 

On December 28, 2023, BCB Bancorp, Inc. (the "Company"), the holding company for BCB Community Bank (the "Bank"), issued a press release (the "Press Release") reporting that the Company and the Bank appointed Michael A. Shriner ("Mr. Shriner") as its President and Chief Executive Officer, effective January 1, 2024. The Company had filed a Current Report on Form 8-K with respect to this event on December 21, 2023 (the "December 21 8-K"). A copy of the Press Release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated by reference into this Item 5.02. 

(d) Election of New Director 

On December 28, 2023, the Board of Directors of the Company elected Mr. Shriner as a director of the Company effective January 1, 2024. The Company has not yet determined the committees on which Mr. Shriner will serve. The December 21 8-K disclosed Mr. Shriner's employment relationship with the Company and the Bank and a summary of the terms of his employment agreement. Mr. Shriner was also elected to the Board of Directors of the Bank effective January 1, 2024. 

(e) Amendment of Employment Agreement and Termination of Consulting Agreement 

On December 28, 2023, the Company, the Bank and Thomas M. Coughlin, the current President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company and the Bank who is retiring from such positions effective December 31, 2023, further amended (the "Second Amendment") Mr. Coughlin's Employment Agreement dated as of September 1, 2022, as amended by an Amendment to Employment Agreement dated August 4, 2023 (collectively, the "Original Employment Agreement"). The Second Amendment provides that Mr. Coughlin's termination of employment shall not be deemed an automatic resignation by him from the Boards of Directors of the Company and the Bank, as Section 6 of the Original Employment Agreement had provided. Therefore, Mr. Coughlin will remain on such boards after December 31, 2023 until the annual meeting of shareholders of the Company to be held in 2024 (the "2024 Annual Meeting"). 

Under the Second Amendment, the Company has agreed that, provided Mr. Coughlin is recommended for nomination by the Company's Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee in accordance with its charter, Mr. Coughlin will be nominated by the Company's Board of Directors for election to the Board at the 2024 Annual Meeting. However, he will be nominated for election to the class of directors whose terms expire at the annual meeting of shareholders of the Company to be held in 2025. 

Also on December 28, 2023, the Company, the Bank and Mr. Coughlin agreed to terminate immediately the Consulting Agreement among such parties dated as of August 3, 2023, which was to be effective as of January 1, 2024 (the "Consulting Agreement"). 


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