Joseph R. Dively has served as a director of the Company since 2004. Mr. Dively has a bachelor s degree in Business from Eastern Illinois University and has also completed a Finance for Executives program through the graduate school of business at the University of Chicago. Mr. Dively has held a variety of management positions in diverse business units which included financial statement responsibilities since 1991. He served as Senior Executive Vice President of the Company and President of First Mid Bank from May 2011 to December 2013. On January 1, 2014, Mr. Dively became the Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of the Company. Mr. Dively provides a wealth of institutional knowledge of the Company. Prior to his employment with the Company, Mr. Dively was Senior Vice President of Consolidated Communications Holdings, Inc., a publicly traded telecommunication holding company headquartered in Mattoon, Illinois. Mr. Dively has also served on the boards of directors of several other organizations where his duties included working with investors, executive teams and other board members. Mr. Dively s current and previous experiences also assist the Board of Directors in dealing with issues related to the Company s local communities and the Board of Directors also benefits from his perspective serving as a former executive officer of a publicly traded company.