Company: HBAN
Filing Date: 2025-03-06
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001308179-25-000044
Chunk: 5

Company: HUNTINGTON BANCSHARES INC /MD/
Filing Date: 2025-03-06
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 5
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 or removal.                         
 We have no reason to believe that any nominee will be unable or unwilling to serve as a Director,                        
 if elected. If, however, any of these nominees should become unavailable, the Board may decrease the number of Directors 
 pursuant to our Bylaws or may designate a substitute nominee, for whom shares represented by a properly submitted proxy  
 would be voted.                                                                                                          |     | The Board recommends a vote FOR the            
 election of each of the nominees for Director. |

Shareholders are being requested to vote on a proposal to elect the 12 nominees listed below to serve as Directors of Huntington. The Board recommends that you vote FOR each nominee because they bring to our Board an effective variety of skills, knowledge, experience, and perspectives. Each nominee is a proven leader within their respective fields and industries. After consideration of the current composition of the Board, the results of the annual Board evaluation, and the Company’s strategic objectives and goals, the Board, upon consultation with the NESG Committee, has nominated the following individuals, each of whom is currently serving, for election at the 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders:

| Ann B. (Tanny) Crane         | Richard W. Neu    | Roger J. Sit        |
| Rafael Andres Diaz-Granados  | Kenneth J. Phelan | Stephen D. Steinour |
| John C. (Chris) Inglis       | David L. Porteous | Jeffrey L. Tate     |
| Katherine M.A. (Allie) Kline | Teresa H. Shea    | Gary Torgow         |

Pursuant to Huntington’s Bylaws, all Directors shall serve a one-year term until the 2026 Annual Meeting and until their successors are duly elected and qualify or their earlier resignation or removal. Four of our Directors will be leaving the Board at the 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders: Alanna Cotton, Gina France, J. Michael Hochschwender, and Richard King. Each of these Directors has brought substantial expertise and leadership to the Board of Directors and the committees on which each has served as a member or as chair. Accordingly, the Board has set the number of Directors to constitute the Board effective at the 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders at 12 Directors. The General Information on Voting and the Annual Meetingsection of the Proxy Statement contains information on how to nominate and recommend individuals for directorship.

| Huntington Bancshares Incorporated      2025 Proxy Statement | 17 |

| Election of Directors |

Demographic Characteristics of the Nom