Company: FFWM
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-036041
Chunk: 137

Company: First Foundation Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 137
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 mailing proxy materials, you can consent to receiving all future proxy statements, proxy cards and annual reports electronically via e-mail or the Internet. To sign up for electronic delivery, please follow the instructions above to vote using the Internet and, when prompted, indicate that you agree to receive or access proxy materials electronically in future years. VOTE BY PHONE - 1-800-690-6903 Use any touch-tone telephone to transmit your voting instructions. Vote by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on May 28, 2025. Have your proxy card in hand when you call and then follow the instructions. VOTE BY MAIL Mark, sign and date your proxy card and return it in the postage-paid envelope we have provided or return it to Vote Processing, c/o Broadridge, 51 Mercedes Way, Edgewood, NY 11717. TO VOTE, MARK BLOCKS BELOW IN BLUE OR BLACK INK AS FOLLOWS:KEEP THIS PORTION FOR YOUR RECORDSTHIS PROXY CARD IS VALID ONLY WHEN SIGNED AND DATED. DETACH AND RETURN THIS PORTION ONLY FIRST FOUNDATION INC.The Board of Directors recommends you vote FOR thefollowing: 1. Election of Directors3. To ratify the appointment of Crowe LLP as the Company'sindependent registered public accountants for the yearending December 31, 2025.2. To approve the First Foundation Inc. Amended andRestated 2024 Equity Incentive Plan.4. To approve, on a non-binding advisory basis, thecompensation of the Company's named executive officersfor the year ended December 31, 2024.5. To approve, on a non-binding advisory basis,the frequency of future advisory votes onthe compensation of the Company's namedexecutive officers.FIRST FOUNDATION INC.The Board of Directors recommends you vote FOR thefollowing:The Board of Directors recommends you vote FORproposals 2, 3 and 4.The Board of Directors recommends you vote for1 YEAR on proposal 5.Please sign exactly as your name(s) appear(s) hereon. When signing as attorney, executor, administrator, or other fiduciary, please give full title as such. Jointowners should each sign personally. All holders must sign. If a corporation or partnership, please sign in full corporate orpartnership name by authorized officer.NOTE: In their discretion, the proxies are authorized to transactsuch other business and to vote on such other matters as mayproperly come before the meeting or any