Company: WBS-PG
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000801337-25-000015
Chunk: 21

Company: WEBSTER FINANCIAL CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 21
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LECTION OF DIRECTORS |

| E. CAROL HAYLES                                                               
 Director                                                                      
 Age:64                                                                        
 Director since:2018                                                           
 Former Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of CIT Group Inc. |     | Current Committees: 
 Audit (Chair)       
 Risk                
 Executive           |     | Committees pending re-election at Annual Meeting: 
 Audit (Chair)                                     
 Risk                                              
 Executive                                         |

SELECTED DIRECTOR QUALIFICATIONS:

• Extensive financial reporting and accounting experience, including as the Chief Financial Officer of a large financial institution and Chair of two public company audit committees, which qualifies her as an “audit committee financial expert”

• As an executive in the financial services industry for over 30 years, has leadership, capital allocation, operations, regulatory compliance, strategy and mergers and acquisitions experience

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

• Former Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of CIT Group Inc., a financial services company (2015-2017), responsible for overseeing all financial operations

• Serves on the Board and is Chair of the Audit Committee and a member of the Governance and Nominating Committee of eBay, Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY), a global commerce corporation, since 2020

• Served on the Board, Audit Committee and Compensation Committee of Avantax, Inc. (f/k/a Blucora, Inc.) (NASDAQ: AVTA), a provider of technology-enabled financial solutions (2018-2023)

• Served as Controller and Principal Accounting Officer (2010-2015) of CIT Group Inc., responsible for managing the financial accounting and reporting functions, including SEC and regulatory reporting

• Spent 24 years in various finance roles at Citigroup, Inc., including as Deputy Controller

• Began career at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and held Canadian Chartered Accountant Designation (1985-2009)

| MONA ABOELNAGA KANAAN                  
 Director                               
 Age:57                                 
 Director since:2022†                   
 Managing Partner at K6 Investments LLC |     | Current Committees:                 
 Nominating and Corporate Governance 
 Technology (Chair)                  
 Executive                           |     | Committees pending re-election at   
 Annual Meeting:                     
 Nominating and Corporate Governance 
 Technology (Chair)                  
 Executive                           |

SELECTED DIRECTOR QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experienced Chief Executive Officer, entrepreneur, private equity investor and corporate director with over 30 years of experience in the financial services sector

• Invested, divested and managed transformative strategic transactions in