---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-009190"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FISI"
cik: "0000862831"
company_name: "FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS INC"
filed_at: "2025-01-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T09:52:39.476636+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Financial Institutions appoints Angela Panzarella to Board, increasing size to 12

## Summary
- Appointment effective January 22, 2025; board expands from 11 to 12 members, 11 independent.
- Panzarella will serve on Audit and Management Development & Compensation Committees.
- Background includes CEO of YWCA Rochester (2018-2020), 20-year tenure at Bausch+Lomb, prior public board at Transcat.
- She is independent under NASDAQ standards and expected to stand for election at next annual meeting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-009190
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FISI
- cik: 0000862831
- company_name: FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS INC
- filed_at: 2025-01-27T23:59:59+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/862831/000095017025009190/0000950170-25-009190-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/862831/000095017025009190/fisi-20250122.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-009190
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-009190.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-009190.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Angela J. Panzarella was appointed as Director at FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On January 22, 2025, Financial Institutions, Inc. (the “Company”) increased the size of its Board of Directors from eleven to twelve members and appointed Ms. Angela J. Panzarella to fill the newly-created vacancy on the Board of Directors.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/862831/000095017025009190/0000950170-25-009190-index.htm

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