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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation During 2020, David B. Juran, Todd B. Urness and David J. Volk served on our Compensation Committee. None of the members of our Compensation Committee will be or has been an officer or employee of the Company. None of our executive officers serves or has served as a member of the Board, compensation committee or other Board committee performing equivalent functions of any entity that has one or more executive officers serving as one of our directors or on our Compensation Committee. Our branch in Greenwood, Minnesota, is leased by the Bank from Bridgewater Properties Greenwood, LLC (“Greenwood”), an entity owned in part by Mr. Juran and Mr. Urness, members of the Compensation Committee, each of whom owns a 12.5% membership interest in Greenwood. In 2020, the Bank exercised a renewal option to extend the term of the lease to August 1, 2026. The Bank has one additional five year renewal option that will permit the Bank to extend the lease through August 1, 2031. The total amount of rent payable by the Bank to Greenwood during the remaining current term of the lease is approximately $1.50 million (inclusive of base rent, estimated real estate taxes and estimated operating costs). The total amount of rent paid by the Bank to Greenwood during 2019 was approximately $258 thousand and the amount paid in 2020 was approximately $257 thousand (in both cases, inclusive of base rent, real estate taxes and operating costs). The Company and the Bank believe the terms of this lease are consistent with the terms for similar properties that could be received in arm’s-length negotiations with third parties. In 2019, 2020 and prior years, the Company purchased loan participation interests from and an interest in a syndicated loan originated by Colliers Mortgage LLC. Mr. Juran, Chairperson of the Compensation Committee, is an executive officer of and owns more than ten percent of Colliers Mortgage Holdings LLC, the parent company of Colliers Mortgage LLC and Colliers Securities LLC (referenced below), and previously served as an executive officer and owned more than ten percent of the predecessor parent company of such entities, Dougherty Financial Group LLC. For each of the loans, Colliers Mortgage acts as the servicer of the loans. Pursuant to servicing and participation agreements for each of the loans, in lieu of a direct payment of a servicing fee by the Company to Colliers Mortgage, the loans have pass-through rates which are between 15 basis points and 125 basis points lower than the loan’s contractual rate. Servicing fees are negotiated on a loan by loan basis. In 2019, the servicing fees to Colliers Mortgage were approximately $193 thousand, and in 2020, the servicing fees to Colliers Mortgage were approximately $169 thousand. Additionally, the Company purchased a number of municipal bonds in 2019 and 2020 for which Colliers Securities acted as broker and received commissions of approximately $17 thousand and $11 thousand, respectively. Code of Business Conduct and Ethics We have a Code of Business Conduct and Ethics in place that applies to all of our directors and employees. The code sets forth the standard of ethics that we expect all of our directors and employees to follow and is available on our website at investors.bridgewaterbankmn.com. In accordance with SEC rules, we intend to disclose on the “Investor Relations” section of our website any amendments to the code, or any waivers of its requirements, that apply to our executive officers to the extent such disclosure is required. Anti-Hedging Policy The Company’s insider trading policy includes provisions that specifically prohibit our directors, officers and employees from entering into hedging transactions with respect to the Company’s securities. To our knowledge, none of our directors, officers or employees has entered into a hedging transaction involving Company securities in violation of this prohibition.

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