On April19, 2023, the Board of Directors of RBB Bancorp appointed Messrs. Robert Franko and Scott Polakoff to the Board, effective immediately. Mr. Franko has more than 35 years of commercial banking experience, most recently serving as the President & CEO of First Choice Bancorp, which was sold to Enterprise Financial Services Corp.

in July 2021. Prior to joining First Choice, Mr. Franko was the founder and CEO of four different banks, including one commercial bank, one international bank, one trust bank and one industrial loan company. He holds a B.S. degree from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from the Thunderbird School of International Management at Arizona State University.

Mr. Polakoff is an Executive Vice President at FinPro Inc. which he joined in 2011 after more than 25 years of bank regulatory service. Mr. Polakoff joined the FDIC in 1983, where he worked for 22 years before becoming the Chief Operating Officer for the Office of Thrift Supervision. He holds a B.S. (Accounting) from West Chester University and is a 1992 graduate of the Southwestern Graduate School of Banking at Southern Methodist University.