Company: ISBA
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000842517-25-000071
Chunk: 17

Company: ISABELLA BANK CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form: DEF 14A
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 overall quality of our financial reporting process. The Audit Committee held six meetings during 2024.

In reliance on the reviews and discussions referred to above, the Audit Committee recommended to the Board of Directors (and the Board has approved) that the audited consolidated financial statements be included in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 for filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Audit Committee has appointed Plante & Moran, PLLC as the independent auditors for the 2025 audit.

Respectfully submitted,

Jill Bourland, Audit Committee Chairperson

Melinda M. Coffin

Chad R. Payton

Sarah R. Opperman (ex-officio)

* As planned, on August 31, 2024, Thomas L. Kleinhardt retired from the Board and all committees of the Board, including the Audit Committee. Therefore, Mr. Kleinhardt did not participate in the Audit Committee's review, discussion or recommendation with respect to matters covered by the Audit Committee's report in this Proxy Statement.

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#### Executive Officers
Executive officers are compensated in accordance with their employment with the applicable entity. The following table shows information on compensation earned in each of the last two years ended December 31, 2024, for the CEO, CFO, and our next most highly compensated executive officer, collectively the named executive officers (“NEOs”).

<div align='center'>Summary Compensation Table</div>

| Name and principal position                                                       |     | Year |     | Salary 
 ($)(1) |         |     | Bonus  
 ($)(2) |         |     | Stock Awards 
 ($)(3)       |        |     | Change in                                              
 pension value                                          
 and nonqualified deferred compensation earnings ($)(4) |        |     | All other compensation 
 ($)(5)                 |         |     | Total 
 ($)   |         |
| Jerome E. Schwind(6)                                                              |     | 2024 |     |        | 443,571 |     |        |  20,100 |     |              | 40,000 |     |                                                        | 14,781 |     |                        |  68,109 |     |       | 586,561 |
| President and CEO of Isabella Bank Corporation and CEO of Isabella Bank           |     | 2023 |     |        | 382,066 |     |        |  68,093 |     |