<SEC-DOCUMENT>0001516912-24-000031.txt : 20240415
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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001516912-24-000031
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	DEFA14A
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		1
FILED AS OF DATE:		20240415
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20240415

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Origin Bancorp, Inc.
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001516912
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	STATE COMMERCIAL BANKS [6022]
		ORGANIZATION NAME:           	02 Finance
		IRS NUMBER:				721192928
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			LA
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		DEFA14A
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-38487
		FILM NUMBER:		24845440

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		500 S SERVICE ROAD EAST
		CITY:			RUSTON
		STATE:			LA
		ZIP:			71270
		BUSINESS PHONE:		318-242-7500

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		500 S SERVICE ROAD EAST
		CITY:			RUSTON
		STATE:			LA
		ZIP:			71270

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	Community Trust Financial Corp
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20110329
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<title>Document</title></head><body><div id="i7a5d840081b64360b8765e6d2f6eb0ba_89"></div><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="text-align:center"><font><br></font></div><div style="-sec-extract:summary;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:14pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">UNITED STATES</font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:14pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:14pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Washington, D.C. 20549</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:18pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">SCHEDULE 14A</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Proxy Statement Pursuant to Section 14(a) of the Securities</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Exchange Act of 1934 (Amendment No.)</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:5pt;margin-top:10pt;text-align:center"><table style="border-collapse:collapse;display:inline-table;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:99.818%"><tr><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:98.900%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000;border-right:1pt solid #000;border-top:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Filed by the Registrant  &#9746;</font></td></tr><tr style="height:6pt"><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000;border-right:1pt solid #000;padding:0 1pt"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000;border-right:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Filed by a Party other than the Registrant  &#9744;</font></td></tr><tr style="height:6pt"><td colspan="3" style="border-top:1pt solid #000;padding:0 1pt"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000;border-right:1pt solid #000;border-top:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Check the appropriate box&#58;</font></td></tr><tr style="height:6pt"><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000;border-right:1pt solid #000;padding:0 1pt"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000;border-right:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#9744; Preliminary Proxy Statement</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000;border-right:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#9744; Confidential, for Use of the Commission Only (as permitted by Rule 14a-6(e)(2))</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000;border-right:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#9744; Definitive Proxy Statement</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000;border-right:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#9746; Definitive Additional Materials</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-bottom:1pt solid #000;border-left:1pt solid #000;border-right:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#9744; Soliciting Material Pursuant to &#167;240.14a-12</font></td></tr></table></div><div style="text-align:center"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:24pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Origin Bancorp, Inc.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(Name of Registrant as Specified In Its Charter)</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#160;(Name of Person(s) Filing Proxy Statement, if Other than the Registrant)</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:5pt;margin-top:10pt;text-align:center"><table style="border-collapse:collapse;display:inline-table;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:99.637%"><tr><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:98.900%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000;border-right:1pt solid #000;border-top:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Payment of Filing Fee (Check all boxes that apply)&#58;</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000;border-right:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#9746; No fee required.</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:1pt solid #000;border-right:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#9744; Fee paid previously with preliminary materials.</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-bottom:1pt solid #000;border-left:1pt solid #000;border-right:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#9744; Fee computed on table below per Exchange Act Rules 14a-6(i)(1) and 0-11</font></td></tr></table></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div></div><div id="i7a5d840081b64360b8765e6d2f6eb0ba_35"></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">To the Stockholders of ORIGIN BANCORP, INC.&#58;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">We believe firmly in building relationships with all of our stakeholders and, as such, maintaining a dialogue with our stockholders is of utmost importance to us. In response to recent feedback from certain stockholders, we feel it important and necessary to provide additional information in regards to two of our director nominees, Daniel Chu and Stacey Goff.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The role of public company directors is complex and time-consuming, and directors should be accessible, actively engaged in their responsibilities and responsive to planned and unplanned board matters. In the instance of our directors Chu and Goff, while they did not meet the threshold of attending 75 percent of aggregated board and committee meetings in 2023, they have more than fulfilled their role as engaged and effective directors. Both directors maintain consistent communication with our Chairman, Drake Mills, our Lead Independent Director, Jim D&#8217;Agostino, their relevant committees and management. In the instances where our directors did not attend a meeting, there was subsequent follow-up to the meeting to ensure the director was aware of relevant information and engaged in the business of the meeting. Additionally, our online director portal provides each of our directors access to board materials both in preparation for our meetings and for reference as needed throughout the year. This functionality creates the opportunity for our directors to engage with the material, each other and management while increasing the overall effectiveness of our board.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">We believe it is important to maintain a board that is diverse, is visible in the community, represents our geographic markets, possesses the appropriate business and banking acumen to direct our company, and represents the interests of all stockholders. Directors Chu and Goff both hold meaningful leadership positions within their respective companies and 2023 proved to be an anomalous year where their attendance in specific meetings of the board of directors of Origin Bancorp, Inc. and its committees were limited more than anticipated due to the unusually high (and given their nature, unlikely to recur) needs of their respective companies. We feel that directors Daniel Chu and Stacey Goff continue to bring unique, diverse, and specific expertise to the board which provides them with the perspective and leadership skills needed to fulfill their roles effectively as directors. Further, both of these directors are actively engaged in our board and committee deliberations and exhibit critical leadership within the boardroom.  As such, we strongly believe that it is in the best interests of the company and its stockholders to re-elect directors Chu and Goff. </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Importantly, directors Chu and Goff each has personally pledged his commitment in 2024 to attend at least 75 percent of the aggregate of the total number of meetings of the board of directors and the total number of meetings held by all of the committees of the board on which they serve.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">We appreciate your investment and continued support.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Sincerely, </font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">The Board of Directors of Origin Bancorp, Inc.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Contact&#58;</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Investor Relations&#58; </font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Chris Reigelman</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(318) 497-3177</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">chris&#64;origin.bank</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div></div></body></html>
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