Company: WBS-PG
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000801337-25-000015
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Company: WEBSTER FINANCIAL CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 14
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 worked in eight lines of business across Webster Bank over 10 weeks.

• Webster hired 12 early career, high potential college graduates into the 2024 Rotational Program, which is 18-24 months in duration.

• Lead with Impact, our flagship management development program, had two cohorts with a total of 41 graduates from 10 different departments.

• Two cohorts totaling 32 colleagues were selected to participate in our RISE Emerging Talent Program, created for high-potential individual contributors who are likely to move into a management role or a role with more responsibility.

• 63 mentees from across Webster Bank were matched with mentors under our six-month mentorship program.

Our annual colleague engagement survey received an 88% response rate and more than 3,600 comments from Webster colleagues. The results reflect our commitment to establishing a culture of trust and safety by encouraging colleagues to share their opinions and actionable ideas for improvement. This feedback makes us a stronger organization and ensures that Webster’s decisions align with the success of our colleagues.

| Our Environment |

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| WebsterFinancial Corporation |     | COMMITMENT TO CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY |

We believe that our focus on environmental sustainability provides a strategic benefit by reducing costs and improving operational efficiencies. We continue to engage with our suppliers, measuring and managing these impacts to conserve resources, reduce costs and promote ethical practices.

In 2024, Webster initiated a comprehensive climate risk management process to better understand and address the potential impacts of climate change on our operations. Our climate risk assessment analyzed how climate change may affect Webster’s sites and operations. Moving forward, we plan to integrate assessment of these climate risks into our Enterprise Risk and Credit Risk frameworks, ensuring climate-related actions are prioritized in alignment with our business objectives.

We continue to work to increase our use of renewable energy. We purchased multi-year renewable energy certificates, known as RECs, to offset our greenhouse gas emissions in our New York and Massachusetts markets. We further extended our commitment to the communities we serve by financing commercial loans with companies involved in renewable energy, environmental remediation and energy-efficient components.

With a view to increasing efficiency and reducing waste, we also continue to improve financial center functions. In 2024, we:

• Completed the pilot solar panel installation project at our Waterbury office, which is expected to offset 99% of our energy consumption at this location, and 80% of our utility costs

• Updated our Sageworks lending platform to support the continued growth of E-Lending and provide a faster