Company: WSBC
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-039418
Chunk: 90

Company: WESBANCO INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 90
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 as a whole to reflect the appropriate combination of skills, professional experience, market geographic diversity and diversity of backgrounds in light of the Corporation’s current and future business needs. Diversity is further defined to include gender, ethnic and geographic diversity.

Personal Qualities.Each director must possess certain personal qualities, including financial literacy and a demonstrated reputation for integrity, judgment, business acumen, and high personal and professional ethics. In addition, each director must be at least 21 years of age at the commencement of service as a director and less than 70 years of age at the time of election.

Commitment to the Corporation and its Stockholders.Each director must have the time and ability to make a constructive contribution to the Board, as well as a clear commitment to fulfilling the director’s fiduciary duties and serving the interests of all the Corporation’s stockholders.

Other Commitments.Each director must satisfy the requirements of antitrust and banking laws that limit service as an officer or director of a significant competitor of the Corporation. In addition, in order to ensure that directors have sufficient time to devote to their responsibilities, the Board determined that directors should generally serve on no more than two (2) other public company boards.

Additional Criteriafor Incumbent Directors.During their terms, all incumbent directors on the Corporation’s Board are expected to prepare for (by carefully reading any materials distributed in advance of meetings) and attend the meetings of the Board and committees on which they serve and the annual meetings of stockholders; to stay informed about the Corporation and its businesses; to participate in discussions; to comply with applicable Corporation policies; and to provide advice and counsel to the Corporation’s management.

Stock Ownership.All Directors and Nominees must own in their own name, common stock sufficient to meet the ownership requirements for bank directors under West Virginia Code Annot. § 31A-4-8.

Additional Criteria for New Directors.As a result of its assessment of the Board’s current composition and in light of the Corporation’s current and expected business needs, the Nominating Committee has identified additional criteria for new members of the Board. The following attributes may evolve over time depending on changes in the Board and the Corporation’s business needs and environment and may be changed at any time.

Professional Experience. New candidates for the Board should have significant experience in areas such as the following: (i) chief executive officer of a corporation (or a comparable position in the government or non-profit sector); (ii) chief financial

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