{"url_path":"/sec/ovbc/8-k/2026-05-15/item-5-02","section_key":"item-5-02","section_title":"Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers;","topic":"sec","document":{"doc_type":"8-K","doc_date":"2026-05-15","source_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/894671/0000894671-26-000036-index.html","accession_number":"0000894671-26-000036","cik":"0000894671","ticker":"OVBC","issuer_name":"OHIO VALLEY BANC CORP","edgar_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/894671/0000894671-26-000036-index.html","primary_entity_key":"0000894671","primary_entity_name":"OHIO VALLEY BANC CORP"},"word_count":407,"has_tables":true,"body_markdown":"Item 5.02.  Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers;\nCompensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.\n\n \n\nOn May 13, 2026, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Ohio Valley Banc Corp. (\"OVBC\") and The Ohio Valley Bank Company (the \"Bank\")\nappointed K. Ryan Smith as Chairman of the Board of OVBC and the Bank, a role previously held by Thomas E. Wiseman, who, as previously announced, retired as chairman effective as of  OVBC’s 2026 annual meeting of shareholders (the\n“2026 Annual Meeting”).\n\n \n\nAt the same meeting, the Board elected Ryan J. Jones as President of OVBC and the Bank, a role previously held by Larry E. Miller, II, who\nwill continue to serve as the Chief Executive Officer of OVBC and the Bank. Also, upon the recommendation of the Board’s Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, the Board appointed Mr. Jones as a director of OVBC and the Bank\nto fill the vacancy created by the previously announced retirement of  David W. Thomas as of the 2026 Annual Meeting. The appointment of Mr. Jones was effective immediately following the 2026 Annual Meeting, and Mr. Jones will serve\nas a member of the class of directors whose terms expire at OVBC’s 2029 annual meeting of shareholders.  [Mr. Jones has not been appointed to any committees of the Board at this time.]\n\n \n\nThere are no arrangements or understandings between Mr. Jones and any person pursuant to which Mr. Jones was selected as a director, and no\nfamily relationships exist between Mr. Jones and any director or executive officer of OVBC.  OVBC has determined that neither Mr. Jones nor any of his immediate family members has had (or proposes to have) a direct or indirect\ninterest in any transaction in which OVBC or any of its subsidiaries was (or is proposed to be) a participant, that would be required to be disclosed under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.\n\n \n\n Mr. Jones, age 48, has been Chief Operating and Risk Officer of OVBC and the Bank since May 2022 and served as Vice President of OVBC from August\n2016 to May 2022. He served as Senior Vice President, Chief Risk Officer of the Bank from June 2017 to May 2022.  Mr. Jones has been Chairman of the Board of OVBC’s subsidiary, Loan Central, Inc. since May 2022, serving as a Director since\nMay 2018.\n\n OVBC issued a press release on May 15, 2026 to discuss these new officer appointments."}