David Taber resigned from his position as President and Chief Executive Officer of American River Bankshares. He also resigned from the Company's Board of Directors and from all of his positions with the Company's wholly-owned subsidiary, American River Bank. The Company's Board of Directors appointed Mr. David Ritchie as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company and the Bank and as a member of the Board of Directors of each effective as of November 1, 2017.

Between June 2014 until his resignation in October 2017 to accept his position with the Company, Mr. Ritchie served as Senior Vice President and head of the Regional Commercial Banking Office in Torrance, California, for U.S. Bank National Association.