---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001471265-25-000080"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NWBI"
cik: "0001471265"
company_name: "Northwest Bancshares, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-05-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T23:27:31.440383+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Northwest Bancshares appoints Timothy M. Hunter as Non-Executive Chairman

## Summary
- Timothy B. Fannin stepped down as Board Chair; Hunter succeeds him effective May 12, 2025.
- Fannin plans to retire from the board in 2026; he served as Non-Executive Chairman since 2022.
- Hunter served as Vice Chair since 2023; former CEO of McInnes Rolled Rings and a CPA.
- President & CEO Louis Torchio thanked Fannin; merger with Penns Woods expected to close late July 2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001471265-25-000080
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NWBI
- cik: 0001471265
- company_name: Northwest Bancshares, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-05-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1471265/000147126525000080/0001471265-25-000080-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1471265/000147126525000080/nwbi-20250512.htm

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