At a meeting held on April 25, 2012, Sherwin R. Koopmans notified the corporate governance and nominating committee of the board of directors of BankFinancial Corp. that he will not stand for re-election to the board and will retire from board service when his current term expires at the company's Annual Meeting to be held on June 26, 2012. Mr. Koopmans is a member of the board's audit and executive committees, and has served as a director of the company since its formation in 2004. He has also served as a director of BankFinancial, F.S.B. since 2004, from which he is also retiring. Prior to joining the board, Mr. Koopmans served as a director of the company's predecessors, BankFinancial MHC and BankFinancial Corporation, a federal corporation, from 2003 to 2005, and of the Bank's insurance subsidiary, Financial Assurance Services Inc.