Company: WAL-PA
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-057334
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Company: WESTERN ALLIANCE BANCORPORATION
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form: DEF 14A
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 help inform their related decisions. The Consultant was also engaged to help the Company with the Realizable Pay vs. Target Pay analysis, beginning on page49, and the Pay versus Performance disclosure, shown on pages62-64.

The Compensation Committee Chair works with management to set the individual meeting agenda for the Compensation Committee following an overall annual calendar of regular activities. The CEO, CFO, Chief Human Resources Officer (“CHRO”) and the Chief Legal Officer are the primary representatives of management who interact with the Compensation Committee and serve as liaisons between the Compensation Committee and Company management. These officers regularly attend Compensation Committee meetings, and provide input and recommendations on compensation matters, as discussed more fully in the “Compensation Discussion and Analysis” below. The CHRO works with the CEO, CFO, and other senior executives to develop and recommend compensation strategies and practices to the Compensation Committee for its review and approval, including the performance goals and weighting factors used in the Company’s performance-based plans and base salary adjustments for specific officers. The CHRO also works directly with the Consultant on a variety of Compensation Committee matters and provides administrative support and assistance to the Compensation Committee.

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Proposal No. 1. El ection of Directors The Company’s Bylaws provide that the Board of Directors will consist of not less than eight or more than seventeen directors. The Board of Directors may, from time to time, fix the number of directors within these limits. Effective as of the date of the Annual Meeting, the Company’s Board of Directors will be fixed at thirteen directors. The thirteen individuals listed below are currently directors of the Company and are the nominees to be elected as directors at the Annual Meeting to serve for one-year terms. Proxies may not be voted for a greater number of persons than the number of nominees named. Vote Required . A nominee shall be elected to the Board of Directors if the votes cast for such nominee’s election exceed the votes cast against such nominee’s election.

| The Board of Directors unanimously recommends that the stockholders vote“FOR” all of the following nominees: Bruce D. BeachJuan R. FiguereoHoward N. GouldGreta GuggenheimChristopher A. HalmyMary Chris JammetMarianne Boyd JohnsonMary Tuuk KurasRobert P. LattaAnthony T. MeolaBryan K. SegediDonald D. SnyderKenneth A. Vecchione |

Biographical information about these nominees may be found beginning at page 5 of this proxy statement.

| 2025 PROXY