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Business First Bancshares, Inc.

NASDAQ: BFST. Business First Bancshares, Inc. (BFST) serves as the bank holding company for b1BANK, delivering an extensive array of banking products and financial services.

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Alpha ID
alpha:company:54063d87-48f5-4564-a45f-822a06c9db56
SEC CIK
0001624322
Record version
vpublic-1:d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce:ro-d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce, published Oct 17, 2026
Newest evidence
Apr 8, 2026
Monitoring
Not yet monitored Details
Integrity
Not yet signed Methodology
CEO
David R. Melville IIIChairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Chair
David R. Melville IIILead independent: Mark P. Folse
Independent
Not published4 directors published
Published claims
332 distinct sources
Evidence records
40 pinned
Source conflicts
0None open

Built from 2 distinct sources and 4 evidence records. Every Claim links to where it appears. Where nothing was published, the record states the coverage gap.

CorroboratedSource reportedAlpha inferenceNot disclosed

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DIRECTOR APPOINTED

Keith Mansfield seat on Business First Bancshares, Inc., effective 2026-04-08.

EffectiveEffective Apr 8, 2026E3

Monitoring

Continuous

What the published record states about identity, evidence, evaluation, monitoring, authority, and freshness. Watched-source schedules are not published for this record.

  • Identityunclaimed
    Published
  • Evidencesource_reported
    Published
  • Evaluationnot_evaluated
    Published
  • MonitoringNot yet published for this record.
    Not published
  • AuthorityNot yet published for this record.
    Not published
  • Freshnesscurrent
    Published

Leadership

Evidence
RolePersonSinceStatusClaim
Chairman, President and Chief Executive OfficerDavid R. Melville IIINot capturedunknownSource reportedE2
Chief Financial Officer and TreasurerGregory RobertsonNot capturedunknownSource reportedE2
Executive Vice President and Chief Operations OfficerKeith MansfieldNot capturedunknownSource reportedE2
PresidentN. Jerome Vascocu, Jr.Not capturedunknownSource reportedE2
Executive Vice President and Chief Banking OfficerPhilip JordanNot capturedunknownSource reportedE2

Board of directors

Evidence

4 directors published. Independence determinations are not published for every director.

DirectorStatusSinceCommitteesClaim
Keith MansfieldIndependence not published2026Summary Compensation Table CommitteeSource reportedE3
Patrick E. MocklerIndependence not published2006None publishedSource reportedE3
Philip JordanIndependence not published2026Summary Compensation Table CommitteeSource reportedE3
Saundra StrongIndependence not published2021None publishedSource reportedE3
Aimee QuirkIndependence not publishedNot publishedNone publishedSource reportedE2
Alejandro SanchezIndependence not publishedNot publishedNone publishedSource reportedE2
Arthur J. PriceIndependence not publishedNot publishedNone publishedSource reportedE2
David A. Montgomery, Jr.Independence not publishedNot publishedNone publishedSource reportedE2
David R. Melville IIINot independentChairNot publishedPresident and Chief Executive Officer, chairSource reportedE2
George W. Cummings IIIIndependence not publishedNot publishedNone publishedSource reportedE2
J. Vernon JohnsonIndependence not publishedNot publishedNone publishedSource reportedE2
John P. DucrestIndependence not publishedNot publishedNone publishedSource reportedE2
Keith A. TillageIndependence not publishedNot publishedNone publishedSource reportedE2
Mark P. FolseIndependentLead IndependentNot publishedNone publishedSource reportedE2
Ricky D. DayIndependence not publishedNot publishedNone publishedSource reportedE2
Rolfe H. McCollister, Jr.Independence not publishedNot publishedNone publishedSource reportedE2
Steven G. WhiteIndependence not publishedNot publishedNone publishedSource reportedE2
William G. HallIndependence not publishedNot publishedNone publishedSource reportedE2
Zeenat SidiIndependence not publishedNot publishedNone publishedSource reportedE2

Committees and risk ownership

Evidence
CommitteeChairMembersRisks assigned
President and Chief Executive OfficerDavid R. Melville IIIDavid R. Melville IIINot described in the published record
Summary Compensation Table CommitteeNot publishedKeith Mansfield, Philip JordanNot described in the published record
Committee RecordSummary Compensation Table Committee: Chair not stated; Members Keith Mansfield; Philip Jordan
Source reportedE4
company:54063d87-48f5-4564-a45f-822a06c9db56:committee_record:31
Committee AppointmentKeith Mansfield: member, Summary Compensation Table Committee
Source reportedE4
company:54063d87-48f5-4564-a45f-822a06c9db56:committee_appointment:32
Committee AppointmentPhilip Jordan: member, Summary Compensation Table Committee
Source reportedE4
company:54063d87-48f5-4564-a45f-822a06c9db56:committee_appointment:33

Control and voting power

Evidence

No published claims

Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.

Authority to act

Evidence and agent registry

Who can act for the company, and on whose authority. This is what a counterparty's agent checks before it accepts an order, signs, or pays.

Principal executive officerDavid R. Melville III, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Source reportedE2
company:54063d87-48f5-4564-a45f-822a06c9db56:leadership_role:26
Who can authorize an agentNot assessedNo Alpha inference about signing authority or board-reserved matters is published for this record.
Not assessed
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AI agents registered by the companyNot registered in the public RegistryAgent Deployments, Agent Use Cases, Authority Grants, TrustChecks, Action Ledger entries and Governance Receipts live in the private enterprise overlay. They are never projected into the public Registry without explicit cross-plane authorization. Absence here is a plane boundary, not evidence that the enterprise operates no agents.
Agent registry
agents
Delegations publishedNot disclosedBoard and officer delegation resolutions are not public filings and are not published in this record.
Search scope
delegations

Financials and market context

Evidence
Security ListingBFST (NASDAQ)
Source reportedE1
company:54063d87-48f5-4564-a45f-822a06c9db56:security_listing:34
Index membershipsNo current membership is published in Alpha's tracked index universe.This is not evidence that the company is absent from every market index.
None publishedAs of Oct 18, 2026. Rights-filtered public evidence only; no redistribution or model training is granted. Only source-backed memberships with an explicit public redistribution basis are returned.

Governance and policies

Evidence

No published claims

Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.

Risk, audit, and cyber

Evidence

No published claims

Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.

AI oversight and accountability

Evidence

No published claims

Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.

Compensation

Evidence

No published claims

Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.

Other published claims

Evidence

Published Claims that belong to no section above. Each keeps its permalink, evidence, and assertion state.

Legal NameBusiness First Bancshares, Inc.
Source reportedE1
company:54063d87-48f5-4564-a45f-822a06c9db56:legal_name:1
Entity StatusPublic listing published
Source reportedE1
company:54063d87-48f5-4564-a45f-822a06c9db56:entity_status:3
Published FactFinancial Services
Source reportedE1
company:54063d87-48f5-4564-a45f-822a06c9db56:published_fact:5
Published FactBanks - Regional
Source reportedE1
company:54063d87-48f5-4564-a45f-822a06c9db56:published_fact:6

Not yet in this record

Coverage

A gap is a coverage state, not a negative finding. These sections are expected for this entity class and are not yet published.

  • Corporate structureNot reviewed. Parent, subsidiary and predecessor structure explains who is governed.
  • OwnershipNot reviewed. Ownership and voting power determine who can influence the board.
  • FinancialsNot reviewed. Governance-relevant financial context frames capital and audit decisions.
  • CompensationNot reviewed. Pay design shows how incentives are governed.
  • GovernanceNot reviewed. Governing documents and provisions set the rules of the enterprise.
  • Shareholder governanceNot reviewed. Meeting and vote records show shareholder dissent and support.
  • AuditNot reviewed. Auditor, controls and restatements show assurance over reporting.
  • LegalNot reviewed. Material legal and regulatory matters show enforcement exposure.
  • RiskNot reviewed. Risk ownership links the board, committees, executives and controls.
  • CyberNot reviewed. Cyber and data governance is a disclosed oversight domain.
  • AI governanceNot reviewed. AI oversight is a differentiated Alpha governance domain.
  • Markets externalNot reviewed. Auditors, advisors, investors and regulators form the external ecosystem.
  • Absence of a leadership role, committee, or disclosure is not evidence that it does not exist.Absence of a leadership role, committee, or disclosure is not evidence that it does not exist.
  • Only explicitly published canonical company identity and current confirmed public roles are included.Only explicitly published canonical company identity and current confirmed public roles are included.
  • Absence of a board, committee, executive, listing, or claim is not evidence that it does not exist.Absence of a board, committee, executive, listing, or claim is not evidence that it does not exist.
  • Public retrieval does not grant redistribution, model-training, direct-contact, or relationship-pathfinding rights.Public retrieval does not grant redistribution, model-training, direct-contact, or relationship-pathfinding rights.
  • This Company Profile is an identity and evidence record, not an Alpha rating.This Company Profile is an identity and evidence record, not an Alpha rating.

Subject and corrections

Public-role doctrine

This record exists because the company is in the published Registry. The company can claim the record, correct, or dispute any Claim. Corrections are versioned and the original stays in history.

Basis
Published company record built from public sources
Sources
4 evidence records cited. 0 with redistribution rights.
Never published
Private enterprise overlay data: deployments, authority grants, TrustChecks, receipts, telemetry
Record claimed
No
Open disputes
0
Identity ownership
unclaimed
Claiming not yet available

If the company claims the record, its statements appear as their own assertion state and never overwrite the cited evidence.

Evidence

Authority and rights
  1. E1
    Alpha canonical company public projection
    Alpha canonical company public projection. canonical identity. Retrieved Oct 17, 2026. Cited by 6 Claims.
    Open web
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  2. E2
    SEC DEF 14A 0001437749-26-011695
    sec def 14a. Published Apr 8, 2026. Retrieved Sep 6, 2026. Cited by 20 Claims.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  3. E3
    DEF 14A bfbi20260325_def14a.htm
    sec proxy. Published Apr 8, 2026. Retrieved Sep 2, 2026. Cited by 4 Claims.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  4. E4
    Summary Compensation Table Committee
    governance_people_committees. sec proxy. Cited by 3 Claims.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned

What changed in version public-1:d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce:ro-d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce

vpublic-1:d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce:ro-d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce published Oct 17, 2026
  • Keith Mansfield seat on Business First Bancshares, Inc., effective 2026-04-08.
  • Philip Jordan seat on Business First Bancshares, Inc., effective 2026-04-08.
  • Saundra Strong seat on Business First Bancshares, Inc., effective 2021-01-01.
  • Patrick E. Mockler seat on Business First Bancshares, Inc., effective 2006-01-01.
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  2. Monitoring4
  3. Leadership5
  4. Board19
  5. Committees2
  6. Control and voting0
  7. Authority to act4
  8. Financials1
  9. Governance0
  10. Risk0
  11. AI oversight0
  12. Legal0
  13. Compensation0
  14. Other published claims5
  15. Coverage gaps17
  16. Linked people21
  17. Subject and corrections6
  18. Evidence4
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    Business First Bancshares, Inc.Company
  • David R. Melville IIIPerson
  • Gregory RobertsonPerson
  • Keith MansfieldPerson
  • N. Jerome Vascocu, Jr.Person
  • Philip JordanPerson
  • Patrick E. MocklerPerson
  • Saundra StrongPerson
  • Aimee QuirkPerson
  • Alejandro SanchezPerson
  • Arthur J. PricePerson
  • David A. Montgomery, Jr.Person
  • George W. Cummings IIIPerson
  • J. Vernon JohnsonPerson
  • John P. DucrestPerson
  • Keith A. TillagePerson
  • Mark P. FolsePerson
  • Ricky D. DayPerson
  • Rolfe H. McCollister, Jr.Person
  • Steven G. WhitePerson
  • William G. HallPerson
  • Zeenat SidiPerson
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    OverviewBusiness First Bancshares, Inc.
  • MonitoringBusiness First Bancshares, Inc.
  • LeadershipBusiness First Bancshares, Inc.
  • BoardBusiness First Bancshares, Inc.
  • CommitteesBusiness First Bancshares, Inc.
  • Control and votingBusiness First Bancshares, Inc.
  • Authority to actBusiness First Bancshares, Inc.
  • FinancialsBusiness First Bancshares, Inc.
  • GovernanceBusiness First Bancshares, Inc.
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