Company: NWBI
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-049104
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Company: Northwest Bancshares, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form: DEF 14A
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 25 years of experience, Mr. Bowers served as Senior Vice President, Head of Consumer Products, Strategy and Innovation at PNC Financial Services Group from 2022 to 2024, where he oversaw a portfolio of consumer households with more than $200 billion in deposits and led a team responsible for PNC’s consumer checking, savings, time deposits, Virtual Wallet and digital experiences. Throughout his tenure at PNC, which began in 1999, Mr. Bowers held various leadership roles, including Head of Retail Savings, Liquidity and Fee Businesses; Chief Financial Officer — Retail Banking; Chief Financial Officer — Asset Management Group; SVP, Competitive Analysis and Planning, as well as positions in performance measurement, strategic planning, corporate marketing and affinity businesses. Mr. Bowers holds a bachelor’s degree and MBA from the University of Pittsburgh.

James M. Colestro has been employed by Northwest Bank since December 2007 and currently serves as Chief Retail Lending Officer overseeing the bank’s retail lending, small business banking, international services and payments strategy and operations. Throughout his tenure with Northwest, Mr. Colestro has held several other leadership positions throughout the bank, including strategy and implementation of the bank’s virtual lending program as well as development of the bank’s mortgage sales force. Mr. Colestro is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Bankers Association School of Banking, and he holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and business management with minors in finance and marketing from the University of Pittsburgh, as well as earning his MBA from The Ohio State University.

Thomas K. Creal IV has been employed by Northwest Bank since April 2012 and currently serves as Chief Credit Officer. Prior to joining Northwest, he served as Director of Asset Management for De Lage Landen, FS and held various commercial lending positions at General Electric Capital in Manhattan and Siemens Financial Services. Mr. Creal graduated from Ohio University and the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Devin T. Cygnar has been employed by Northwest Bank since March 2021 and currently serves as Chief Marketing and Communications Officer. From 2019 to 2021, he was Senior Vice President and Head of Marketing and Corporate Communications at ServiceLink, a division of Fidelity National Financial. He brings nearly 30 years of marketing experience spanning consumer, small business and mortgage banking. Mr. Cygnar has worked with organizations of various sizes, including PNC Bank as Head of Marketing for the Business Banking division, directing marketing strategy for all products and segments across the bank