Park National Corp. announced the retirement of its chief financial officer John W. Kozak. On March 5, 2012, Park reported the retirement was anticipated for April 2013, and that the company's chief accounting officer Brady T. Burt would succeed Kozak.

Mr. Kozak has been pleased with the transition of the chief financial officer duties and decided that he was ready to retire from both the company and The Park National Bank, effective December 19, 2012. For several years, Mr. Kozak has trained Park's Chief Accounting Officer Brady Burt and Park National Bank's Accounting Vice President Matthew R. Miller to succeed him, and now they assume the roles of Park's and Park National Bank's Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer, respectively.