Company: NWBI
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-049104
Chunk: 17

Company: Northwest Bancshares, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 17
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 a member of the National Moot Court Competition Team. Mr. Laws is also an Adjunct Professor at Penn State Law where he has taught courses in Professional Responsibility and has designed and currently teaches an experiential learning course entitled “Modern In-HouseCounsel.” Douglas M. Schosserhas been employed by Northwest Bank since March 2024 and currently serves as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Northwest, he served as Chief Accounting Officer for KeyCorp from 2014 until 2024, where he was responsible for SEC and Regulatory reporting, Accounting Policy, Financial Systems, Procurement and compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Prior to this he served as Chief Financial Officer for the Commercial Bank from 2010 until 2014. Additionally, he served on several committees, including: the Trust Oversight Committee; Operational Risk Committee; Consumer Credit Committee; Asset and Liability Committee, Third Party Risk Management; Anti Money Laundering Oversight Committee; and Model Risk Committee in addition to serving as a director of KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc. Mr. Schosser is a graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Scott J. Watsonhas been employed by Northwest Bank since February 2019 and currently serves as Chief Information Officer. Mr. Watson has an extensive 30-yearcareer in bank information technology and operations. From 2016 to 2019, he served as Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer, for Cape Cod Five, Orleans, Massachusetts. From 2010 to 2016, Mr. Watson served as an Executive Director of Bank Operations and Technical Director of Bank Systems with USAA. From 2007 to 2010, he served in technology leadership roles for Wells Fargo and Wachovia. Mr. Watson earned a degree in Business Administration from Kent State University and is a graduate of the CBA Executive Banking School. Board Diversity Given the carefully considered size of the Board and the substantial, meaningful relationships that Northwest maintains with its directors, we firmly believe that the Board is appropriately diverse to the fullest extent feasible. This diversity equips the Board to serve the best interests of the Company effectively and robustly. The following table provides the diversity statistics of the Company’s Board of Directors as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. The information provided below was based on voluntary information self-identified by each member of the Board of Directors.

| Board diversity matrix          |     | As of December 31, 2024 |     |      |     | As of