CF Bankshares and its wholly-owned banking subsidiary, CFBank, N.A. announced that Brad Ringwald has joined CFBank as Chief Commercial Banking Officer.

Ringwald will be responsible for providing strategic leadership to the commercial banking line of business, working closely with our market leadership and commercial business segment leaders throughout the entire organization.

Ringwald is an accomplished commercial banking executive with 25 years of experience that includes leadership roles at several large regional banking institutions. Brad recently served as President, Commercial Banking for First Financial Bank with responsibility for the commercial banking markets, treasury management, and specialty lending areas. Prior to this role, Ringwald led the corporate banking and specialty finance groups. Ringwald also has experience in investment banking with Brady Ware Capital where he served as Director and launched the firm's expansion into the Cincinnati area. Ringwald will be based out of the bank's Headquarters location in Columbus reporting directly to the CEO, Tim O'Dell. He is a dynamic leader with a track record of successfully executing corporate strategies that drive growth.

Timothy O'Dell, President & CEO commented, "We are highly enthused to have Brad join us in this key leadership role. Brad brings to CFBank a proven track record of success with growing and building Commercial Banking products and services. His addition represents a natural progression for us as we continue to scale our business toward $2 billion as our next targeted threshold, and beyond. Our full-service Commercial Bank operates in the 3 largest Metro Ohio markets of Greater Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati. Our boutique business model has been well received by business customers and entrepreneurs. Additionally, we are having success pushing up market, which expands our niche, as our lending capabilities have also grown."