Ernest Waters Biography and Net Worth

Ernest J. Waters serves as Independent Director of the Company. Waters has also been a director of Fulton Bank, N.A. since 2011. Mr. Waters retired from Metropolitan Edison, a FirstEnergy company, in 2009, where he served as the Area Vice President and Area Manager. Mr. Waters joined the FirstEnergy companies (an investor-owned utility) in 1976 and held various positions in Auditing and Marketing during his tenure. He also served as an expert accounting witness in setting rates before the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. Prior to joining the FirstEnergy companies, Mr. Waters was a public accountant and business consultant in Philadelphia. He is a former certified public accountant and holds an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh. Since 2007, Mr. Waters has served on the Board of Directors of the York Water Company (NASDAQ: YORW) where he chairs their Compensation Committee and is a member of the Audit Committee. In addition, Mr. Waters has served at leadership and committee levels with numerous community and nonprofit organizations. He is a past Chairman of the Board of York Hospital and recently completed a nine-year tenure as member of the Board, and chair of the Audit Committee for Wellspan Health, York Hospital’s parent company. Mr. Waters has business, regulatory, leadership, board service and accounting expertise that brings valuable perspectives to Fulton’s Board of Directors. He has also completed the requirements for the NACD Board Leadership Fellow Program since 2014. In 2017, Mr. Waters also successfully completed the NACD Cyber-Risk Oversight Program and earned a CERT Certificate in Cybersecurity Oversight, issued by the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University