Company: WAL-PA
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-057334
Chunk: 2

Company: WESTERN ALLIANCE BANCORPORATION
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 2
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Strategic

| Objectives |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| ·          | Maintain prudent capital management practices focused on financial stability and generating sustainable stockholder returns.                                                                                                                            |
| ·          | Promote disciplined loan growth focused on a specialized, high-quality loan portfolio, funded through long-term core deposits.                                                                                                                          |
| ·          | Preserve limited risk profile of loan composition using a demonstrated conservative credit culture to foster healthy earnings growth, tangible book value per share accumulation, and resilient asset quality.                                          |
| ·          | Implement targeted initiatives to prepare to become a Large Financial Institution (LFI) with appropriate Board oversight, a seasoned leadership team, and foundational risk management practices supported by our capital base and access to liquidity. |

| Western Alliance: Diversified Model. Diversified Earnings.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| For more than a decade, we have deliberately transformed our business to become a national commercial bank focused on deep segment expertise, underwriting specialization and business diversification, including a broad range of differentiated deposit-generating businesses. This agile business model — and the robust relationships we have built with our varied stakeholders — has served us well in building a strong liquidity foundation, which we believe positions us as a strong company today that is prepared for the long term. |

| 2025 PROXY STATEMENT | iii |

| ABOUT US |

Stockholder Engagement We maintain an ongoing, proactive outreach effort with our stockholders in a variety of ways. Throughout the year, our Investor Relations team and executive leaders regularly meet with current stockholders, prospective investors, and investment research analysts. These meetings often include our Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”), Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”), or line of business leaders to engage stockholders and solicit feedback on various topics relevant to the Company’s performance and strategy. Our executive management team provided additional context to our stockholders on our diversified business model and funding strategy, balance sheet optimization efforts and asset quality throughout 2024, given a more uncertain bank liquidity and operating environment and heightened awareness of potential credit concerns in the U.S. banking industry. Additionally, we continued to provide insightful disclosures to address stockholder inquiries related to drivers of ongoing earnings growth, sources of deposit growth and loan originations, and our demonstrated, conservative credit culture. Management attended numerous investment analyst sponsored industry conferences and conducted several non-deal roadshows to meet with existing and prospective investors. The feedback received from our stockholders is communicated to business leaders and the Board of Directors (the “Board” or “Board of Directors”), and helps