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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served as Board Member of International Food and Agricultural Development, an organization that advises the United States Agency for International
Development on agricultural priorities and issues, former President of the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau, and Board Member and Chairman of
Gartmore Global Asset Management Trust. Mr. Eckel’s strong business background, extensive knowledge in the insurance industry
and agribusiness, and community and charitable involvement qualify him to serve as a director of the Company and the Bank.

Joseph T. Wright, Jr.,
Esquire, age 69, has been a director of Peoples Financial Services Corp. and Peoples Security Bank and Trust Company since
2009. He has been an attorney at law with Wright, Reihner & Mulcahey (formerly Wright & Reihner PC) since 1980. The
board has determined that Mr. Wright is qualified to be on the board due to his experience and knowledge gained as a practicing attorney
for over forty years with involvement in numerous financially complex matters related to disputes involving shareholders, employment matters,
contracts, valuation issues, real estate matters, and general business issues related to risk assessment.

Continuing Directors

The names of our directors
whose current terms will continue after the 2025 annual meeting of shareholders and certain information about them follow.

Term Expiring In 2026

Sandra L. Bodnyk,
age 73, was appointed as a director of Peoples Financial Services Corp. and Peoples Security Bank and Trust Company on February 28,
2020. Ms. Bodnyk was Executive Vice President, Senior Loan Administrator for Branch Banking and Trust Company, the banking subsidiary
of BB&T Corporation, from April 2016 through December 2018, and was Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Risk Officer
for National Penn Bank, the banking subsidiary of National Penn Bancshares, Inc., from January 2013 until its merger with BB&T
in April 2016. Before Ms. Bodnyk’s appointment to that position, she was Group Executive Vice President & Chief
Risk Officer for National Penn Bank, and before that she held various positions with KNBT Bancorp, Inc. and Keystone Nazareth Bank &
Trust Company. Our board of directors determined that Ms. Bodnyk is qualified to serve as a director of the Company as a result of
her extensive background in commercial banking, including her experience with commercial lending and enterprise risk management, and oversight
of regulatory compliance and technology and information security.

Joseph Coccia,
age 70, was appointed as a director of