Company: BWFG
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001505732-25-000079
Chunk: 11

Company: Bankwell Financial Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 11
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 Directors.

Todd H. Lampert, Esq., Director and Corporate Secretary. Mr . Lampert is the founder of and has been the managing member of the law firm of Lampert, Toohey & Rucci, LLC located in New Canaan, Connecticut, since its inception in 1993, where he is the head of the litigation department, representing banks and title companies in construction and real estate matters for over 30 years. From 1985 to 1987, Mr. Lampert was a stock broker with Series

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7 and Series 63 licenses. He joined our Board of Directors in 2007 and served on the board of The Bank of New Canaan from its organization. Mr. Lampert also served on the board of directors of Waveny Health Care from 2012 to 2018 and was the Chairman from 2016 to 2018. In 2022, Mr. Lampert founded Recovery Education & Applied Learning, LLC, an online educational platform designed to help parents with adolescents and young adults struggling with addiction and substance use disorders. Mr. Lampert’s legal and community knowledge provide our Board of Directors with an understanding of legal and community issues.

Kevin D. Leitão, Esq., Director. Mr. Leitão is an attorney in private practice and a risk management advisor based in New Canaan, Connecticut. Since 2000, he has focused primarily on the integration of technology into the products and services offered by banks and other financial services companies, including regulatory compliance and information risk management advice on digital initiatives. Mr. Leitão’s most recent in-house role was General Counsel of Hulett Bancorp and Summit National Bank which received approval from the OCC for new business activities involving FinTech platforms during his tenure. From 2018 to 2020, he served as General Counsel of WebBank, where he was also the executive owner of compliance and played a key role in managing lending platform relationships, product counseling, government relations and supporting business development. His compliance roles have included Associate General Counsel and Compliance Officer for SoftCard (the mobile wallet company), Managing Director and Senior Compliance Officer at TIAA and Chief Compliance Officer for the Merrill Lynch Global Bank Group. Mr. Leitão holds an A.B. from Brown University, a M.Phil. in Criminology from Cambridge University (as a Marshall Scholar) and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Mr. Leitão’s extensive experience with financial technology,