People: First Merchants Corp (FRME.O)

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17 May 2013
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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position

Charles Schalliol

 65 2007 Independent Chairman of the Board

Michael Rechin

 54 2007 President, Chief Executive Officer, Director

Mark Hardwick

 42 2005 Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President

Michael Stewart

 47 2008 Executive Vice President, Chief Banking Officer

Robert Connors

 63 2006 Chief Information Officer, Senior Vice President

Jeffrey Lorentson

 49 2007 Chief Risk Officer, Senior Vice President

Kimberly Ellington

 53 2004 Senior Vice President, Director - Human Resources

John Martin

 46 2009 Senior Vice President, Chief Credit Officer

Michael Becher

 60 2012 Independent Director

Roderick English

 61 2005 Independent Director

Jo Gora

 67 2004 Independent Director

William Hoy

 64 2007 Independent Director

Gary Lehman

 60 2011 Independent Director

Patrick Sherman

 65 2009 Independent Director

Terry Walker

 66 2006 Independent Director

Jean Wojtowicz

 55 2004 Independent Director

David Ortega

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Biographies

Name Description

Charles Schalliol

 Mr. Charles E. Schalliol is Independent Chairman of the Board of First Merchants Corp. Mr. Rechin has been the Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer since 2007, after having served as its Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for two years. He has also been the President and CEO of First Merchants Bank, N.A., FMC’s wholly-owned subsidiary bank, since 2009. Prior to joining the Company in 2005, Mr. Rechin held senior management positions with National City Bank, a super regional bank that was acquired by PNC Bank in 2008, for 23 years. He managed National City’s Indiana operations from 1995-2005. The Board believes that the current CEO of the Company should be a director, in that he has principal responsibility to provide leadership and strategic direction for the Company and, together with the Chairman of the Board, to act as a liaison between the Board and senior management.

Michael Rechin

 Mr. Michael C. Rechin is President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of First Merchants Corporation, since April 24, 2007. Mr. Rechin has been the Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer since 2007, after having served as its Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for two years. He has also been the President and CEO of First Merchants Bank, N.A., FMC’s wholly-owned subsidiary bank, since 2009. Prior to joining the Company in 2005, Mr. Rechin held senior management positions with National City Bank, a super regional bank that was acquired by PNC Bank in 2008, for 23 years. He managed National City’s Indiana operations from 1995-2005. The Board believes that the current CEO of the Company should be a director, in that he has principal responsibility to provide leadership and strategic direction for the Company and, together with the Chairman of the Board, to act as a liaison between the Board and senior management.

Mark Hardwick

 Mr. Mark K. Hardwick is Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President of First Merchants Corporation, since December 2005. He served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Corporation from April 2002 to December 2005; Corporate Controller of the Corporation from November 1997 to April 2002.

Michael Stewart

 Mr. Michael J. Stewart is Executive Vice President, Chief Banking Officer of First Merchants Corporation, since February 2008. He was Executive Vice President from December 2006 to February 2008 for National City Corp; Executive Vice President and Chief Credit Officer for National City Bank of Indiana from December 2002 to December 2006.

Robert Connors

 Mr. Robert R. Connors is Chief Information Officer, Senior Vice President of First Merchants Corporation, since January 2006. He served as Senior Vice President of Operations and Technology of the Corporation from August 2002 to January 2006.

Jeffrey Lorentson

 Mr. Jeffrey B. Lorentson is Chief Risk Officer, Senior Vice President of First Merchants Corporation, since June 2007. He served as Corporate Controller of First Indiana Bank from June 2006 to June 2007; First Vice President and Corporate Controller of the Corporation from 2003 to 2006; Vice President and Corporate Controller of the Corporation from 2002 to 2003.

Kimberly Ellington

 Ms. Kimberly J. Ellington is Senior Vice President, Director - Human Resources of First Merchants Corp., since 2004. She was Vice President and Director of Human Resources of the Corporation from 1999 to 2004.

John Martin

 Mr. John J. Martin is Senior Vice President, Chief Credit Officer of First Merchants Corporation, since June 2009. He served as First Vice President and Deputy Chief Credit Officer of the Corporation from July 2008 to June 2009; First Vice President and Senior Manager of Lending Process of the Corporation from January 2008 to July 2008; Senior Vice President and Regional Senior Credit Officer of National City Bank from May 2000 to December 2007.

Michael Becher

 Mr. Michael R. Becher is Independent Director of First Merchants Corp., since June 6, 2012. Mr. Becher was the Managing Partner of the Indianapolis office of Deloitte & Touche LLP (“Deloitte”) for more than 20 years, until his retirement in June 2012. Deloitte is the professional services organization in the United States. While he was the Managing Partner, Deloitte experienced growth in the Indianapolis market. Mr. Becher also held other global, national and regional leadership positions during his more than 30-year career with Deloitte. As an audit partner, Mr. Becher served public and private companies in industries such as financial services, retail and manufacturing, and tax-exempt organizations. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Marian University.

Roderick English

 Mr. Roderick English is Independent Director of First Merchants Corporation. Mr. English is the Manager of the Operations Review Office of the Defense Finance and Accounting Services Office of the U. S. Department of Defense, having served in that capacity since 2010. His management responsibilities include audit teams in performing audit readiness reviews of human resources operational processes to ensure regulatory compliance, accuracy of processing, appropriate maintenance of records and files, and process efficiencies. From 2006 to 2012, Mr. English was also the President and Chief Executive Officer of The James Monroe Group, LLC, which provided business management and consulting services, including helping clients develop strategic business plans, top grade management personnel, expand their core business to achieve sustainable growth, improve operational efficiencies and reduce waste. From 1994 to 2006, Mr. English was the Senior Vice President, Human Resources and Communications, for Remy International, Inc., a tier one automotive manufacturer, where he provided leadership and direction for all of Remy’s human resources initiatives, including in the areas of acquisitions, mergers and divestitures. Prior to 1994, Mr. English held several management positions with the Delco Remy Division of General Motors, including plant manager of one of its manufacturing plants and manager of its labor relations.

Jo Gora

 Dr. Jo Ann M. Gora is Independent Director of First Merchants Corporation. Dr. Gora has been the President of Ball State University since 2004. Ball State is one of Indiana’s state universities, with 20,000 students, more than 3,000 employees, and an annual budget exceeding $400 million. She has led the strategic planning and been the catalyst for Ball State’s growing prominence as an educational institution with a number of nationally-ranked academic programs and a nationwide reputation for technology innovation. Under her direction, Ball State is installing the closed geothermal energy system in the United States, which will result in substantially reduced heating and cooling costs and benefit the environment by replacing existing coal-fired boilers. Before assuming Ball State’s Presidency, Dr. Gora was the Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts, Boston from 2001-2004 and the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs of Old Dominion University from 1992-2001. She also serves as a board member and leader of a number of national organizations that support higher education, including the American Council on Education and the Association of Governing Board’s Council of Presidents. Dr. Gora co-chairs the Board and Executive Committee of the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership, a coalition of the CEOs of Central Indiana’s employers and its flagship university presidents that is committed to transforming the regional economy by focusing on strategic priorities such as promoting innovation and entrepreneurship, building a work-class workforce and encouraging a pro-growth business climate.

William Hoy

 Mr. William L. Hoy is Independent Director of First Merchants Corporation. Mr. Hoy has served as the CEO of Columbus Sign Company, a custom sign and graphic fabricator, since 1990. Columbus Sign has served central Ohio and beyond for 100+ years and is one of Ohio’s full-service sign companies. Its work encompasses all phases of signage production including interior and exterior sign design, fabrication and installation. Mr. Hoy is also the co-owner and Vice President/Treasurer of Innocom Corporation, an environmental graphic design and custom display company; and he is the managing partner and co-owner of M&B Properties, a real estate partnership based in Columbus. Mr. Hoy was a founding director of Commerce National Bank (“Commerce”), a Columbus-based bank that FMC acquired in 2002. Mr. Hoy continued as a Commerce director until FMC merged all of its subsidiary bank charters into First Merchants Bank, N. A. in 2009. For many years, Mr. Hoy has been a member of the board of directors of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, one of America’s zoos, and he has served as the Chairman of that board.

Gary Lehman

 Mr. Gary J. Lehman is Independent Director of First Merchants Corp., since May 3, 2011. Mr. Lehman is the Oerlikon Group’s Country President for the Americas, having been appointed to this position in November 2012. Oerlikon, a global company based in Switzerland, is a innovative industrial group specializing in machine and plant engineering. Mr. Lehman was the CEO of Oerlikon’s Drive Systems segment from 2010 to 2012 and the President and CEO of Fairfield Manufacturing Company Inc. (Oerlikon Fairfield) from 2003 to 2012. He is currently Fairfield’s Chairman. Fairfield, a part of Oerlikon’s Drive Systems segment, is headquartered in Lafayette, Indiana and is the independent gear manufacturer in the United States. Prior to 2003, Mr. Lehman was the Managing Director and founder of The Cannelton Group, a provider of operations and financial assistance to private equity and closely held manufacturing firms; President and CEO of Philips Lighting Electronics NA and Advance Transformer, a wholly owned subsidiary of Philips Electronics NV; and Senior Vice President of Worldwide Operations and General Manager of the Body Systems Division of ITT Automotive. Mr. Lehman is a member of the Purdue University Board of Trustees and has served on the Indiana Commission for Higher Education.

Patrick Sherman

 Mr. Patrick A. Sherman is Independent Director of First Merchants Corporation. Mr. Sherman is a certified public accountant and a partner in the accounting firm of Sherman & Armbruster LLP, which he co-founded more than 30 years ago. He is also a part owner and officer of several small businesses located in the Indianapolis metropolitan area and elsewhere. Mr. Sherman is also a member of the board of directors and executive committee of the Johnson County Development Corp., a nonprofit private/public partnership providing economic development services for companies throughout Johnson County, Indiana. He was a director of Lincoln Bancorp from 2005 until its acquisition by FMC in 2009. Mr. Sherman chaired Lincoln’s Audit and Compliance Committees. He served as a director of Heartland Community Bank from 1997 to 2005, when Heartland was acquired by Lincoln. As a Heartland director, Mr. Sherman was Vice Chairman of the board and chaired the Audit Committee.

Terry Walker

 Mr. Terry L. Walker is Independent Director of First Merchants Corporation. Mr. Walker is the retired Chairman and CEO of Muncie Power Products, Inc., a Muncie-based company that, together with its parent, Interpump Group, S.p.A., an Italy-based public company, are the power take-off manufacturing company in the world and serve the truck equipment market by manufacturing and distributing mobile power components and systems including, in addition to power take-offs, hydraulic gear pumps, hydraulic reservoirs, and other specialty products. Mr. Walker retired in December 2011, after serving 34 years as an executive employee of Muncie Power. Mr. Walker is a certified public accountant and was a member of the accounting firm, Whitinger & Company, prior to joining Muncie Power.

Jean Wojtowicz

 Ms. Jean L. Wojtowicz is Independent Director of First Merchants Corporation. Ms. Wojtowicz is the President of Cambridge Capital Management Corp., a manager of non-traditional sources of capital for businesses. Cambridge has provided more than $500 million to more than 1,200 businesses in the manufacturing, service and retail sectors since Ms. Wojtowicz founded the company in 1983. Cambridge manages the Indiana Statewide Certified Development Corporation, which provides fixed-asset financing to small businesses; the Indiana Community Business Credit Corporation, a consortium of financial institutions that pool money to provide working capital loans to businesses in a growth stage; and Lynx Capital Corporation, which provides debt and equity financing to minority-owned companies. Cambridge is also the general partner of Cambridge Ventures L.P., a licensed small business investment company. Ms. Wojtowicz is one of the seven Board members of the Indiana Department of Financial Institutions, the agency responsible for supervising financial institutions incorporated in Indiana. She is also a member of the Indianapolis Airport Authority Board of Directors, which operates the Indianapolis International Airport and five general aviation airports in the Indianapolis metropolitan area; and she authors frequent articles and columns for the Indianapolis Business Journal, Hoosier Banker, and other business and financial publications.

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Name Shares Traded Price

WALKER TERRY L

 6 $16.04

LEHMAN GARY J

 104 $16.04

SHERMAN PATRICK A

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WALKER TERRY L

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SHERMAN PATRICK A

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LEHMAN GARY J

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WALKER TERRY L

 565 $15.47

LEHMAN GARY J

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SHERMAN PATRICK A

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GORA JO ANN M

 484 $15.47

ENGLISH RODERICK

 484 $15.47

WOJTOWICZ JEAN L

 565 $15.47

HOY WILLIAM L

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BECHER MICHAEL R

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SCHALLIOL CHARLES E

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STEWART MICHAEL J

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BRADSHAW JAMI L

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LORENTSON JEFFREY B

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HARDWICK MARK K

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WALKER TERRY L

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LEHMAN GARY J

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SHERMAN PATRICK A

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ELLINGTON KIMBERLY J

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BRADSHAW JAMI L

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LORENTSON JEFFREY B

 549 $14.81
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