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Porter Bancorp, Inc. Elects W. Kirk Wycoff to Board of Directors

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  Published in Business and Finance on Thursday, August 5th 2010 at 7:45 GMT by Market Wire

LOUISVILLE, Ky.--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--Porter Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: PBIB), parent company of PBI Bank, announced today that W. Kirk Wycoff has been elected to the Companya™s Board of Directors effective August1,2010. His appointment expands the Board to seven members.

"He joins our board with an extensive background in banking and a solid record of growing banks and building shareholder value."

aWe are pleased to welcome Kirk Wycoff to our Board,a stated Maria L. Bouvette, President and CEO of Porter Bancorp, Inc. aHe joins our board with an extensive background in banking and a solid record of growing banks and building shareholder value.a

Mr. Wycoff is currently a managing partner of Patriot Financial Partners, L.P. and Patriot Financial Partners Parallel, L.P., private equity funds headquartered in Philadelphia focused on investing in community banks and thrifts throughout the United States. Mr. Wycoff has more than 25 years of entrepreneurial banking experience. He also currently serves as Chairman of Continental Bank, based in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. From 2005 to 2007, Mr. Wycoff served as President and CEO of Continental Bank.

About Porter Bancorp, Inc.

Porter Bancorp, Inc., a bank holding company headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, had $1.8billion in assets as of June 30, 2010. Through Portera™s subsidiary PBI Bank, it operates 18 full service banking offices in Kentucky. Porter Bancorpa™s common stock is traded on the Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol aPBIB.a

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