USCB Financial Holdings, Inc. announced key transitions and promotion of new chief risk and compliance officer. Benigno ?Ben? Pazos, CPA, Executive Vice President and Chief Credit Officer, will be retiring effective December 31, 2023.

Pazos joined the Bank in 2015 and has been instrumental in the Bank?s growth and expansion over the last eight years. The Company expects to announce Ben?s successor shortly. Jalal ?Jay?

Shehadeh, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, has decided to leave the Company to pursue personal opportunities. He will remain in his position until December 31, 2023. After his departure, he is expected to continue his relationship with the Bank through his law firm, Shehadeh Giannamore, PLLC.

Maricarmen Logroño, currently Senior Vice President and Director of Enterprise Risk Management, has been named Executive Vice President, Chief Risk Officer. She will lead the newly combined risk management and compliance divisions. She has more than 20 years of experience in banking risk management covering financial, credit, and operational risk, as well as regulatory compliance.

Logroño will work closely with the executive management team in her new role to provide risk management and compliance oversight for the Company and the Bank, and will support the execution of the Bank's strategic plan. Since joining the Bank in 2014, she has collaborated with the Compliance Department as an advisor and has led numerous cross-functional task forces and joint strategic initiatives to manage risk. Most recently, she assumed interim duties as Chief Compliance Officer in July.

She graduated from the University of Puerto Rico with a bachelor?s degree in business administration and a Master of Business Administration (MBA).