Company: ISBA
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000842517-25-000071
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Company: ISABELLA BANK CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form: DEF 14A
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 Director Qualifications
Board members are highly qualified and represent your best interests. We select nominees who:

• Have extensive business leadership.

• Bring a diverse perspective and experience.

• Are objective and collegial.

• Have high ethical standards and have demonstrated sound business judgment.

• Are willing and able to commit the significant time and effort to effectively fulfill their responsibilities.

Each nominee and current director possesses these qualities and provides a diverse complement of specific business skills and experience. In addition to the general qualifications described above, qualifications are included in the biographical summaries provided on the following pages.

The following table identifies individual Board members serving on each of our standing committees:

| Director              |     | Audit |     | Nominating and Corporate Governance |     | Compensation and Human Resource |
| Sarah R. Opperman     |     | Xo    |     | Xo                                  |     | Xo                              |
| Dr. Jeffrey J. Barnes |     |       |     | Xc                                  |     |                                 |
| David B. Behen        |     |       |     |                                     |     | X                               |
| Jill Bourland         |     | Xc    |     | X                                   |     |                                 |
| Melinda M. Coffin     |     | X     |     |                                     |     | X                               |
| Jae A. Evans          |     |       |     |                                     |     |                                 |
| Neil M. McDonnell     |     |       |     |                                     |     |                                 |
| Chad R. Payton        |     | X     |     |                                     |     | Xc                              |
| Vicki L. Rupp         |     |       |     |                                     |     | X                               |
| Brian R. Sackett      |     |       |     |                                     |     |                                 |
| Jerome E. Schwind     |     |       |     |                                     |     |                                 |
| C — Chairperson       |     |       |     |                                     |     |                                 |
| O — Ex-Officio        |     |       |     |                                     |     |                                 |

#### Director Nominees for Terms Ending in 2028
Neil M. McDonnell (age 61), has been a director of Isabella Bank Corporation and of the Bank since January 31, 2024. Mr. McDonnell was appointed President of Isabella Bank effective January 5, 2024 after serving as the Chief Financial Officer since 2018. He has more than