---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-22-017650"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FISI"
cik: "0000862831"
company_name: "FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS INC"
filed_at: "2022-08-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-23T22:24:28.264499+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Financial Institutions, Inc. appoints Bruce W. Harting to Board of Directors

## Summary
- Board expanded from 11 to 12 members; Harting fills newly created vacancy effective Aug. 22, 2022.
- Harting will serve on the Audit and Risk Oversight Committees; he is independent under NASDAQ rules.
- Most recently Team Chief Investment Officer at Rockefeller Capital Management; over 35 yrs financial services experience.
- Former Managing Director at Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, Barclays; previously #1 ranked equity research analyst at Lehman/Barclays.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-22-017650
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FISI
- cik: 0000862831
- company_name: FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS INC
- filed_at: 2022-08-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/862831/000095017022017650/0000950170-22-017650-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/862831/000095017022017650/fisi-20220822.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-22-017650
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-22-017650.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-22-017650.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Bruce W. Harting was appointed as Director at FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On August 22, 2022, Financial Institutions, Inc. (the “Company”) increased the size of its Board of Directors from eleven to twelve members and appointed Mr. Bruce W. Harting to fill the newly-created vacancy on the Board of Directors.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/862831/000095017022017650/0000950170-22-017650-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.