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      <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 23, 2022</div>
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      <div style="text-align: right; font-weight: bold;">Registration No. 333-</div>
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      <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-size: 14pt;">UNITED STATES</div>
      <font style="font-size: 14pt;"> </font>
      <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-size: 14pt;">SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</div>
      <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-size: 12pt;">WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549</div>
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      <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt;">FORM S-8</div>
      <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">REGISTRATION STATEMENT</div>
      <div style="text-align: center; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">UNDER</div>
      <div style="text-align: center; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</div>
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      <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-size: 24pt;">FINWISE BANCORP</div>
      <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)</div>
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              <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Utah</div>
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              <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">83-0356689</div>
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              <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization)</div>
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              <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">756 East Winchester, Suite 100</div>
              <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Murray, Utah</div>
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              <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">84107</div>
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            <td rowspan="1" style="width: 49%; vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">(Address of Principal Executive Offices)</td>
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      <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">FinWise Bancorp 2019 Stock Option Plan</div>
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      <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">(Full Title of the Plan)</div>
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      <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Kent Landvatter</div>
      <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">President and Chief Executive Officer</div>
      <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">FinWise Bancorp</div>
      <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">756 East Winchester, Suite 100</div>
      <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Murray, UT, 84107</div>
      <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">(801) 501-7200</div>
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      <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">(Name, address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)</div>
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      <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><font style="font-style: italic;">Copies to</font>:</div>
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      <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Terrence Shen, Esq.</div>
      <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Kramer Levin Naftalis &amp; Frankel LLP</div>
      <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">1177 Avenue of the Americas</div>
      <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">New York, NY 10036</div>
      <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">(212) 715-9100</div>
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      <div>Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of &#8220;large accelerated filer,&#8221; &#8220;accelerated
        filer,&#8221; &#8220;smaller reporting company&#8221; and &#8220;emerging growth company&#8221; in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.</div>
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              <div>Large accelerated filer</div>
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              <div>Accelerated filer</div>
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              <div>Non-accelerated filer</div>
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              <div>&#9746;</div>
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              <div>Smaller reporting company</div>
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              <div style="text-align: right;">&#9746;</div>
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              <div>Emerging growth company</div>
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      <div>If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the
        Securities Act. &#9744;</div>
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      <div style="text-align: center; color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">EXPLANATORY NOTE</div>
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      <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; color: #000000;">The purpose of this Registration Statement on Form S-8 (this &#8220;Registration Statement&#8221;) is to register an additional 500,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the
        &#8220;Common Stock&#8221;) of FinWise Bancorp (the &#8220;Company&#8221;), that may be offered pursuant to the FinWise Bancorp 2019 Stock Option Plan, as amended (the &#8220;Plan&#8221;). An amendment to increase the number of shares of Common Stock authorized to be issued under the
        Plan and to change the name of the Plan from the All West Bancorporation 2019 Stock Option Plan to the FinWise Bancorp 2019 Stock Option Plan was approved by the Company&#8217;s Board of Directors on April 19, 2022 and by the Company&#8217;s shareholders on
        June 9, 2022.</div>
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      <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><font style="color: #000000;">Pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the &#8220;Securities Act&#8221;), the contents of </font>the Registration Statement
        on <a href="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1856365/000114036122003901/brhc10033452_s8.htm">Form S-8</a> of <font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">the Company filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#8220;Commission&#8221;) on February 4,
          2022 (File No. 333-262531), including any amendments thereto or filings incorporated therein, are incorporated herein by this reference to the extent not modified, superseded or replaced hereby, or by any subsequently filed document that is
          incorporated by reference herein or therein.</font></div>
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      <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">PART I</div>
      <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS</div>
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                <div style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;">Item 1 &amp; 2.</div>
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                <div style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;">Plan Information and Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information</div>
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      <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; color: #000000;">The information specified in Item 1 and Item 2 of Part I of this Registration Statement is omitted from this filing in accordance with the provisions of Rule 428 of the Securities
        Act and the introductory note to Part I of Form S-8. The documents containing the information specified in Part I will be delivered to the participants in the Plan as required by Rule 428(b)(1).</div>
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      <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">PART II</div>
      <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT</div>
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            <td style="width: 36pt; vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold;">Item 8.</td>
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              <div style="font-weight: bold;">Exhibits.</div>
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              <div style="text-align: justify;">Exhibit</div>
              <div style="text-align: justify;">Number</div>
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              <div style="text-align: center;">Description</div>
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              <div>4.1</div>
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            <td style="width: 92%; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(204, 238, 255);">
              <div>FinWise Bancorp 2019 Stock Option<font style="font-weight: bold;">&#160;</font>Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of the Company&#8217;s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on June 14, 2022)</div>
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              <div>5.1</div>
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              <div>Opinion of Kirton McConkie P.C. with respect to the legality of the securities being registered</div>
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              <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">23.1</div>
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              <div>Consent of Kirton McConkie P.C. (contained in their opinion, which is filed as Exhibit 5.1)</div>
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              <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">23.2</div>
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              <div>Consent of Moss Adams LLP</div>
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              <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">24.1</div>
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              <div>Power of Attorney (contained in the signature page hereto)</div>
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              <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">107</div>
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              <div>Filing Fee Table</div>
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      <div style="text-align: center;">EXHIBIT INDEX</div>
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              <div><a href="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1856365/000114036122022905/brhc10038736_ex10-1.htm">4.1</a></div>
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            <td style="width: 92%; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(204, 238, 255);">
              <div>FinWise Bancorp 2019 Stock Option<font style="font-weight: bold;">&#160;</font>Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of the Company&#8217;s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on June 14, 2022)</div>
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              <div><a href="brhc10044594_ex5-1.htm">5.1</a></div>
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              <div>Opinion of Kirton McConkie P.C. with respect to the legality of the securities being registered</div>
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              <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="brhc10044594_ex5-1.htm">23.1</a></div>
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              <div>Consent of Kirton McConkie P.C. (contained in their opinion, which is filed as Exhibit 5.1)</div>
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              <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="brhc10044594_ex23-2.htm">23.2</a></div>
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              <div>Consent of Moss Adams LLP</div>
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              <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="#SIGNATURES">24.1</a></div>
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              <div>Power of Attorney (contained in the signature page hereto)</div>
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              <div>Filing Fee Table</div>
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      <div>Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, FinWise Bancorp certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be
        signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the city of Murray, State of Utah, on November 23, 2022.</div>
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              <div>By:</div>
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              <div>/s/ Kent Landvatter</div>
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              <div><br>
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              <div>Kent Landvatter</div>
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            <td style="width: 50%; vertical-align: top;">&#160;</td>
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              <div style="font-style: italic;"><br>
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              <div style="font-style: italic;">President and Chief Executive Officer</div>
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      <div style="text-align: justify;">We, the undersigned directors and officers of FinWise Bancorp (the &#8220;Company&#8221;) hereby severally constitute and appoint Kent Landvatter and Javvis Jacobson, and each of them individually, with full power of
        substitution, our true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, to do any and all things in our names in the capacities indicated below which said Kent Landvatter and Javvis Jacobson may deem necessary or advisable to enable the Company to comply
        with the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and any rules, regulations and requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission, in connection with the registration statement on Form S-8 of the Company, including specifically but not limited to,
        power and authority to sign for us in our named in the capacities indicated below, the Registration Statement and any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) thereto; and we hereby ratify and confirm all that said Kent Landvatter
        and Javvis Jacobson may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue thereof.</div>
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      <div>Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated.</div>
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 23, 2022
Registration No. 333-
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
FINWISE BANCORP
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)
Utah
83-0356689
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization)
(IRS Employer Identification No.)
756 East Winchester, Suite 100
Murray, Utah
84107
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
(Zip Code)
FinWise Bancorp 2019 Stock Option Plan
(Full Title of the Plan)
Kent Landvatter
President and Chief Executive Officer
FinWise Bancorp
756 East Winchester, Suite 100
Murray, UT, 84107
(801) 501-7200
(Name, address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Copies to
:
Terrence Shen, Esq.
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
1177 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036
(212) 715-9100
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of "large accelerated filer," "accelerated
        filer," "smaller reporting company" and "emerging growth company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
Large accelerated filer
☐
Accelerated filer
☐
Non-accelerated filer
☒
Smaller reporting company
☒
Emerging growth company
☒
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the
        Securities Act. ☐
EXPLANATORY NOTE
The purpose of this Registration Statement on Form S-8 (this "Registration Statement") is to register an additional 500,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the
        "Common Stock") of FinWise Bancorp (the "Company"), that may be offered pursuant to the FinWise Bancorp 2019 Stock Option Plan, as amended (the "Plan"). An amendment to increase the number of shares of Common Stock authorized to be issued under the
        Plan and to change the name of the Plan from the All West Bancorporation 2019 Stock Option Plan to the FinWise Bancorp 2019 Stock Option Plan was approved by the Company's Board of Directors on April 19, 2022 and by the Company's shareholders on
        June 9, 2022.
Pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), the contents of
the Registration Statement
        on
Form S-8
of
the Company filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") on February 4,
          2022 (File No. 333-262531), including any amendments thereto or filings incorporated therein, are incorporated herein by this reference to the extent not modified, superseded or replaced hereby, or by any subsequently filed document that is
          incorporated by reference herein or therein.
PART I
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
Item 1 & 2.
Plan Information and Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information
The information specified in Item 1 and Item 2 of Part I of this Registration Statement is omitted from this filing in accordance with the provisions of Rule 428 of the Securities
        Act and the introductory note to Part I of Form S-8. The documents containing the information specified in Part I will be delivered to the participants in the Plan as required by Rule 428(b)(1).
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 8.
Exhibits.
Exhibit
Number
Description
4.1
FinWise Bancorp 2019 Stock Option
Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on June 14, 2022)
5.1
Opinion of Kirton McConkie P.C. with respect to the legality of the securities being registered
23.1
Consent of Kirton McConkie P.C. (contained in their opinion, which is filed as Exhibit 5.1)
23.2
Consent of Moss Adams LLP
24.1
Power of Attorney (contained in the signature page hereto)
107
Filing Fee Table
EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit
Number
Description
4.1
FinWise Bancorp 2019 Stock Option
Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on June 14, 2022)
5.1
Opinion of Kirton McConkie P.C. with respect to the legality of the securities being registered
23.1
Consent of Kirton McConkie P.C. (contained in their opinion, which is filed as Exhibit 5.1)
23.2
Consent of Moss Adams LLP
24.1
Power of Attorney (contained in the signature page hereto)
107
Filing Fee Table
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, FinWise Bancorp certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be
        signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the city of Murray, State of Utah, on November 23, 2022.
FINWISE BANCORP:
By:
/s/ Kent Landvatter
Kent Landvatter
President and Chief Executive Officer
We, the undersigned directors and officers of FinWise Bancorp (the "Company") hereby severally constitute and appoint Kent Landvatter and Javvis Jacobson, and each of them individually, with full power of
        substitution, our true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, to do any and all things in our names in the capacities indicated below which said Kent Landvatter and Javvis Jacobson may deem necessary or advisable to enable the Company to comply
        with the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and any rules, regulations and requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission, in connection with the registration statement on Form S-8 of the Company, including specifically but not limited to,
        power and authority to sign for us in our named in the capacities indicated below, the Registration Statement and any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) thereto; and we hereby ratify and confirm all that said Kent Landvatter
        and Javvis Jacobson may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue thereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated.
Signature
Title(s)
Date
/s/ Kent Landvatter
President, Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer) and Chairman of the Board
November 23, 2022
Kent Landvatter
/s/ Javvis Jacobson
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
November 23, 2022
Javvis Jacobson
/s/ Howard I. Reynolds
Vice Chairman of the Board
November 23, 2022
Howard I. Reynolds
/s/ Alan Weichselbaum
Director
November 23, 2022
Alan Weichselbaum
/s/ James N. Giordano
Director
November 23, 2022
James N. Giordano
/s/ Thomas E. Gibson, Jr.
Director
November 23, 2022
Thomas E. Gibson, Jr.
/s/ Lisa Ann Nievaard
Director
November 23, 2022
Lisa Ann Nievaard
/s/ Jeana Hutchings
Director
November 23, 2022
Jeana Hutchings
/s/ Gerald E. Cunningham
Director
November 23, 2022
Gerald E. Cunningham