Company: PFIS
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-021551
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Company: PEOPLES FINANCIAL SERVICES CORP.
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form: PRE 14A
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 legal background, and community and charitable involvement qualify
him to serve as a director of the Company and the Bank. Mr. DeNaples is the nephew of director and Vice Chairman of the Board
of Directors, Louis A. DeNaples, Sr.

Ronald G. Kukuchka,
age 71, has been a director of Peoples Financial Services Corp. and Peoples Security Bank and Trust Company since 2007. He has been President
of Ace Robbins, Inc. since 1982. The board has determined that Mr. Kukuchka is qualified to be on the board due to his leadership
skills gained from owning a successful petroleum company in our market area for over 42 years. He also brings experience gained by serving
as director for the Pennsylvania Marketers & Convenience Store Association, director of the Tunkhannock Fireman’s Relief
Association, and from being trustee of the Roy Piper Charitable Trust.

Elisa Zúñiga Ramirez, age 56, has been a director of Peoples Financial Services Corp. and Peoples Security Bank and Trust Company since 2022.
She has over 30 years’ experience in the capital markets. Since October 2020, until the present, she has been the President
of Exito Consulting LLC. From May 2018 until her retirement in July 2020, Ms. Ramirez was Senior Portfolio Manager and
Principal at Segall Bryant & Hamill, an employee-owned money manager with $25 billion in assets under management. Prior to this,
from 2009, she was Senior Portfolio Manager and Partner at Denver Investments LLC, an employee-owned money manager with $7.3 billion in
assets under management that was acquired by Segall Bryant and Hamill in May 2018. Ms. Ramirez had served in various other positions
with Denver Investments since 1989. Ms. Ramirez managed midcap growth equity assets in the first half of her career and spent the
second half managing value equity assets with a focus on small-cap dividend-paying stocks. At the peak, the Small-Cap Value Dividend Fund
that she co-managed had $2.3 billion in assets under management. Since November 2020, she has served as an independent director for
the Denver Employees Retirement Plan; since January 2021 she has served as an advisory board member for Bow River Capital; and since
February 2022, she has been a trustee of Trust for Professional Managers (US Bank Global Fund Services Series Trust). Our board