Company: WBS-PG
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000801337-25-000015
Chunk: 5

Company: WEBSTER FINANCIAL CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 5
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 do not need to return your proxy card.

• By Internet - The website for Internet voting is printed on your proxy card. Internet voting is available 24 hours a day until 11:59 p.m., Eastern Time, on May 20, 2025. As with telephone voting, you will be given the opportunity to confirm that your instructions have been properly recorded. If you vote via the Internet, you do not need to return your proxy card.

• By Proxy Card – You can sign, date, and mail the proxy card in the enclosed postage-paid envelope.

• In Person - You can attend the Annual Meeting virtually and vote during the meeting.

Whichever of these methods you select to transmit your instructions, the proxy holders will vote your common stock in accordance with your instructions. If you give a proxy without specific voting instructions, your proxy will be voted by the proxy holders as recommended by the Board.

Quorum and Vote Requirements

The presence, in person, by remote communication or represented by proxy, of at least one-third of the capital stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting is necessary to constitute a quorum at the Annual Meeting.

Stockholders’ votes will be tabulated by the person or persons appointed by the Board to act as inspectors of election for the Annual Meeting. Stockholders who attend the Annual Meeting by following the instructions in this Proxy Statement will be considered to be attending the meeting “in person.”

If you do not give instructions, whether the broker or other nominee can vote your shares depends on whether the proposal is considered “routine” or “non-routine” under New York Stock Exchange (“ NYSE ”) rules. If a proposal is routine, a broker or other entity holding shares for an owner in “street name” may vote on the proposal without voting instructions from the owner. If a proposal is non-routine, the broker or other nominee may vote on the proposal only if the owner provided voting instructions. A “broker non-vote” occurs when the broker or other nominee is unable to vote on a proposal because the proposal is non-routine and the owner does not provide instructions.

Both abstentions and broker non-votes (when accompanied by broker votes with respect to at least one matter at the Annual Meeting) will be treated as shares present and entitled to vote for purposes of determining the presence of a quorum at the Annual Meeting.

Abstentions and broker non-votes will not be counted for purposes of determining the number of votes cast on Proposals 1 and 2 and therefore