Company: SENEA
Filing Date: 2025-07-07
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001437749-25-022256
Chunk: 7

Company: Seneca Foods Corp
Filing Date: 2025-07-07
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 7
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 Additionally, he serves as a member of the audit committee of Comet Signs LLC. Mr. Gaylord holds a B.A. from Texas Christian University and an M.B.A. from Southern Methodist University.

Paul L. Palmby, age 62 – Mr. Palmby has been a director of the Company since June 2021. Mr. Palmby is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company and has served in that capacity since October of 2020. From 2006-2020 Mr. Palmby served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company. Prior to that, he served as President of the Vegetable Division of the Company from 2005 to 2006 and Vice President of Operations of the Company from 1999-2004. Mr. Palmby joined the Company in February 1987. He has been twice appointed by the Governor of Wisconsin and has served since 2015 on the Board of the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection for the state. Mr. Palmby currently serves as a Director of First Mid Bancshares, Inc., a publicly traded organization that provides financial services including banking, insurance, wealth management, brokerage, and ag services through a network of locations in Illinois, Missouri, Texas, and Wisconsin, and a loan production office in Indiana. He is also a Director of the Farming For The Future Foundation which is a Foundation dedicated to educating the public about where their food comes from. Mr. Palmby previously served as a Director of Blackhawk Bancorp, Inc., the parent company of Blackhawk Bank, a Beloit, Wisconsin publicly traded community bank with nine full-service banking centers in Wisconsin and Illinois from 2019 to 2023. Mr. Palmby received his Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree from Iowa State University.

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Directors whose Terms Expire in 2026

Peter R. Call, age 68 – Mr. Call has been a director of the Company since 2011. Mr. Call is the President of My-T Acres, Inc., a vegetable and grain farm. He was President of Pro-Fac Cooperative, Inc. from 2003-2013 and a member of its Board of Directors from 2000-2013. Mr. Call currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Cornell University (since 2020). He also serves on the Board of Directors of Farm Fresh First, LLC, and has done so since 2007. Mr. Call also served as