Company: WBS-PG
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000801337-25-000015
Chunk: 24

Company: WEBSTER FINANCIAL CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 24
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CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

• Managing Partner of Fairview Capital Partners, LLC, an investment management firm established in 1994 that oversees venture capital funds, some of which invest capital in venture capital partnerships and similar investment vehicles that provide capital primarily to minority-controlled companies

• Serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of Harris Associates Investment Trust (which oversees the Oakmark Family of Mutual Funds) since 2013

• Chair of the Board of Trustees of Howard University

• Former Director of the Institute of International Education

• Former Director of Princeton University Investment Company and a former trustee of Princeton University

• Former Director and Chairman of the National Association of Investment Companies

† Previously served as a director of Sterling before the Sterling Merger.

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| WebsterFinancial Corporation |     | ELECTION OF DIRECTORS |

| RICHARD O’TOOLE                                   
 Lead Independent Director                         
 Age:68                                            
 Director since:2022†                              
 Executive Vice President of The Related Companies |     | Current Committees:                 
 Risk                                
 Nominating and Corporate Governance 
 Executive                           |     | Committees pending re-election at Annual Meeting: 
 Risk                                              
 Nominating and Corporate Governance               
 Executive                                         |

SELECTED DIRECTOR QUALIFICATIONS:

• Over 40 years of legal, merger and acquisition experience and expertise in real estate and tax matters

• Strong leadership skills and corporate governance oversight experience

• Expertise from serving as a director of both private and publicly traded companies

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

• Executive Vice President of The Related Companies, a position held since 2008, supporting the leadership to drive extraordinary growth through development and management of residential and commercial projects across the country

• Serves on the Board of Equinox Holding Inc., a privately held company, and on its Compensation Committee

• Serves on the Board of Motivate, the operator of Citi Bike, a privately held company, and on the Compensation Committee

• Served on the Board of Ladder Capital Corp. (NYSE: LADR) (2017-2019)

• Former General Counsel of The Related Companies, responsible for tax structuring and origination of new business opportunities (2014-2022)

• Former Partner in the Tax Department with Paul Hastings LLP (formerly Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker LLP) (2000-2005)

| MARK PETTIE                              
 Director                                 
 Age:68                                   
 Director since:2009                      
 President of Blackthorne Associates, LLC |     |