Company: NWBI
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-049104
Chunk: 19

Company: Northwest Bancshares, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 19
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 Risk Officer and reports of Committee meetings are made to the full Board of Directors during the next scheduled Board meeting. The Board of Directors also satisfies this responsibility through reports to the Board of Directors by the committee chair of all board committees regarding the committees’ considerations and actions, through review of minutes of committee meetings and through regular reports directly from officers responsible for oversight of particular risks within the Company. All board committees are responsible for the establishment of policies that guide management and staff in the day-to-day operation of the Company and Northwest Bank such as lending, risk management, asset/liability management, investment management and others.**

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Stock Ownership The following table reflects common stock of the Company beneficially owned by directors, each executive officer named in the “Summary Compensation Table”, all of our directors and executive officers as of February 18, 2025 as a group, except as otherwise indicated below. None of our Directors or Executive Officers had any shares pledged as collateral as of February 18, 2025. We have adopted a policy that prohibits our insiders from (i) pledging of our stock as collateral against a loan or line of credit or holding Company stock in a margin account; and (ii) conducting any hedging activities (including prepaid variable forward contracts, equity swaps, collars, and exchange funds) designed to offset any decrease in the market value of our common stock.

| Name of Beneficial Owner (1)                                                                 |     | Shares of common stock 
 beneficially owned (2) |           |     |     |   |     | Percent of class |
| Robert M. Campana                                                                            |     |                        |    96,548 |     | (3  | ) |     | *                |
| Deborah J. Chadsey                                                                           |     |                        |    85,880 |     | (4  | ) |     | *                |
| Wilbur R. Davis                                                                              |     |                        |   132,114 |     | (5  | ) |     | *                |
| Timothy B. Fannin                                                                            |     |                        |    60,882 |     | (6  | ) |     | *                |
| Timothy M. Hunter                                                                            |     |                        |   215,230 |     | (7  | ) |     | *                |
| John P. Meegan                                                                               |     |                        |   132,880 |     | (8  | ) |     | *                |
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