Company: FITBI
Filing Date: 2025-03-04
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-045653
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Company: FIFTH THIRD BANCORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-04
Form: DEF 14A
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2008. Her contributions to our Board and our Company are innumerable. Having served as Lead Independent Director, she leaves the Board with a legacy of collegiality, consensus-building, and reasoned decision-making. Emerson Brumback joined our Board in 2009 after a successful career in the banking industry. Throughout his tenure as Audit Committee Chair and later as Risk and Compliance Committee Chair, Mr. Brumback demonstrated invaluable risk and operational expertise through varying economic cycles. Mike McCallister joined our Board in 2011 after a successful career at Humana, serving as its Chair, CEO, and President. Drawing on his experience as a public company CEO, he has provided a unique perspective on corporate transactions and chaired our Human Capital and Compensation Committee for several years with steady and thoughtful leadership. We wish Marsha, Emerson, and Mike the best in their retirements and remain most grateful for their extraordinary contributions to our Board and our Company. We believe our recent and continuing succession planning efforts have positioned the Board to maintain the appropriate expertise and experience to ensure our continued high level of effectiveness. We will continue to engage in succession planning initiatives into 2025 and beyond. Following the retirements of Ms. Williams and Messrs. Brumback and Heminger, our Board has voted to reduce its size to 13 members. We look forward to the opportunities 2025 offers. Indeed, it is an exciting time for Fifth Third, and we look forward to continuing to serve you, our shareholders. Regards,

| Nicholas K. Akins Lead Independent Director |

Notice of 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders To: Holders of Outstanding Common Stock and 6.00% Non-Cumulative Perpetual Class B Preferred Stock, Series A

Items of Business:

| 1 |     | Election 13 members of the Board of Directors to serve until the Annual Meeting of Shareholders in 2026.                                    |
| 2 |     | Ratification of the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP to serve as the independent external audit firm for the Company for the year 2025. |
| 3 |     | An advisory approval of the Company’s compensation of its named executive officers.                                                         |
| 4 |     | Transaction of such other business that may properly come before the Annual Meeting or any adjournment thereof.                             |

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