Company: NWBI
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-049104
Chunk: 8

Company: Northwest Bancshares, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 8
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 13, 2024. |

| (5) | As disclosed in Amendment 9 to Schedule 13G/A, as filed with the SEC on February 9, 2024. |

| (6) | As disclosed in Schedule 13G/A, as filed with the SEC on January 24, 2024. |

REVOCATION OF PROXIES Shareholders who execute proxies in the form solicited hereby retain the right to revoke them in the manner described below. Unless so revoked, the shares represented by such proxies will be voted at the Annual Meeting and all adjournments thereof. Proxies solicited on behalf of our Board of Directors will be voted in accordance with the directions given thereon. You may vote via the Internet, mobile or phone as described on your Proxy Card or voting instruction card. You may also vote by signing and returning your Proxy Card to the Company. Proxies we receive that are signed, but contain no instructions for voting, will be voted “FOR” the proposals set forth in this Proxy Statement for consideration at the Annual Meeting. Proxies may be revoked by sending written notice of revocation to the Chief Counsel and Corporate Secretary of the Company, Richard K. Laws, at 3 Easton Oval, Suite 500, Columbus, Ohio 43219, or by returning a duly executed proxy bearing a later date by mail, or voting on a later date via the Internet, mobile or phone, as described on your Proxy Card or voting instruction card. The presence at the virtual Annual Meeting of any shareholder who had given a proxy shall not revoke such proxy unless the shareholder votes during the Annual Meeting or delivers a written revocation to the Chief Counsel and Corporate Secretary prior to the voting of such proxy. PROPOSAL 1 — ELECTION OF DIRECTORS Our Board of Directors is expected to consist of 11 members, effective immediately following the Annual Meeting. Our Bylaws provide that directors are divided into three classes, as nearly equal in number as reasonably possible, such that approximately one-thirdof the directors are to be elected annually. Our directors are generally elected to serve for a three-year period, or a shorter period if the director is elected to fill a vacancy, and until their respective successors shall have been elected and qualified. Four directors will be elected at the Annual Meeting and will serve until their successors have been elected and qualified. The Board of Directors, based on the recommendation of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee has nominated Robert M. Campana, Timothy B. Fannin