Patricia Loepker Named Head of Investment Products for Wells Fargo Investment Solutions

SAN FRANCISCO - Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) today announced that Patricia (Patty) Loepker has been named head of Investment Products in Wealth & Investment Management's (WIM's) Investment Solutions center of excellence. Investment Solutions combines WIM's investment expertise, solutions, and product offerings to provide advisors with essential investment guidance and solutions to help their clients achieve financial success.

In her new role, Loepker will oversee all investment products for WIM, including advisory, packaged products, alternatives, retirement, insurance, and annuities. Her responsibilities include managing a best-in-class product platform as well as the control, risk, and advisor support functions. She will report to Darrell Cronk, chief investment officer for WIM.

"With Patty's background and leadership acumen, I'm confident that she will continue WIM's great work of ensuring that we have the best products available for our advisors and their clients," said Cronk. "In particular, her most recent experience as head of the firm's specialized portfolio management, investment implementation, and consulting efforts, makes Patty the ideal leader for this role and positions her to have immediate impact."

Loepker, a 35-year Wells Fargo veteran, was previously the head of Managed Solutions & Investment Implementation for Investment Solutions. She began her career in trading operations and has since held various leadership roles in advisory, portfolio management, investment consulting, platform marketing, and specialized advisory services. She earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from Southern Illinois University. Loepker is based in St. Louis.

About Wells Fargo Wealth & Investment Management
Wells Fargo Wealth & Investment Management (WIM) is a division within Wells Fargo & Company. WIM provides financial products and services through various bank and brokerage affiliates of Wells Fargo & Company and is one of the largest wealth managers in the U.S., with more than $2 trillion in client assets. WIM provides personalized wealth management, brokerage, financial planning, lending, private banking, trust, and fiduciary products and services to affluent, high-net worth, and ultra-high-net worth clients. WIM operates through advisors in Wells Fargo Advisors, independent brokerage offices, and digitally through Intuitive Investor and WellsTrade, as well as through advisors in The Private Bank and other banking centers.

Wells Fargo Private Bank provides products and services through Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Member FDIC, and its various affiliates and subsidiaries. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., is a bank affiliate of Wells Fargo & Company.

Brokerage services are offered through Wells Fargo Advisors. Wells Fargo Advisors is a trade name used by Wells Fargo Clearing Services, LLC, and Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network, LLC, Members SIPC, separate registered broker-dealers and non-bank affiliates of Wells Fargo & Company.

Wells Fargo Investment Institute, Inc. is a registered investment adviser and wholly-owned subsidiary of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., a bank affiliate of Wells Fargo & Company.

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. offers various advisory and fiduciary products and services including discretionary portfolio management. Wells Fargo affiliates, including Financial Advisors of Wells Fargo Advisors, a separate non-bank affiliate, may be paid an ongoing or one-time referral fee in relation to clients referred to the bank. The bank is responsible for the day-to-day management of the account and for providing investment advice, investment management services and wealth management services to clients. The role of the Financial Advisor with respect to the Bank products and services is limited to referral and relationship management services. Some of The Private Bank experiences may be available to clients of Wells Fargo Advisors without a relationship with Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

About Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is a leading financial services company that has approximately $1.9 trillion in assets, proudly serves one in three U.S. households and more than 10% of small businesses in the U.S., and is a leading middle market banking provider in the U.S. We provide a diversified set of banking, investment and mortgage products and services, as well as consumer and commercial finance, through our four reportable operating segments: Consumer Banking and Lending, Commercial Banking, Corporate and Investment Banking, and Wealth & Investment Management. Wells Fargo ranked No. 37 on Fortune's 2021 rankings of America's largest corporations. In the communities we serve, the company focuses its social impact on building a sustainable, inclusive future for all by supporting housing affordability, small business growth, financial health, and a low-carbon economy. News, insights, and perspectives from Wells Fargo are also available at Wells Fargo Stories.

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