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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000921895-23-002308
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	DFAN14A
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FILED AS OF DATE:		20231004
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20231004

SUBJECT COMPANY:	

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			AMERISERV FINANCIAL INC /PA/
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000707605
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	NATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANKS [6021]
		IRS NUMBER:				251424278
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			PA
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		DFAN14A
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	000-11204
		FILM NUMBER:		231307514

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		MAIN & FRANKLIN STS
		STREET 2:		PO BOX 430
		CITY:			JOHNSTOWN
		STATE:			PA
		ZIP:			15907
		BUSINESS PHONE:		8145335300

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		MAIN & FRANKLIN STS
		STREET 2:		PO BOX 430
		CITY:			JOHNSTOWN
		STATE:			PA
		ZIP:			15907

FILED BY:		

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Driver Management Co LLC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001756372
		IRS NUMBER:				831994022
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		DFAN14A

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		250 PARK AVENUE
		STREET 2:		7TH FLOOR
		CITY:			NEW YORK
		STATE:			NY
		ZIP:			10177
		BUSINESS PHONE:		212-572-4811

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		250 PARK AVENUE
		STREET 2:		7TH FLOOR
		CITY:			NEW YORK
		STATE:			NY
		ZIP:			10177
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in">Driver Management Company
LLC (&ldquo;Driver Management&rdquo;), together with the other participants named herein (collectively, &ldquo;Driver&rdquo;), intends
to nominate, and to file a preliminary proxy statement and accompanying proxy card with the Securities and Exchange Commission to be used
to solicit votes for the election of, director nominees at the 2024 annual meeting of shareholders of AmeriServ Financial, Inc., a Pennsylvania
corporation (the &ldquo;Company&rdquo;).</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in">On October 3, 2023, J.
Abbot R. Cooper, Managing Member of Driver Management, and Keith R. Mestrich, potential director nominee to the Company's board of directors,
were quoted in the following article published by American Banker:</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify"><B>Investor recruits veteran exec to end feud that's
cost Pa. bank millions</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">By&nbsp;John Reosti</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">Retired Amalgamated Financial Corp. CEO Keith Mestrich
believes he may be just the person&nbsp;to help break a bitter deadlock involving investor Abbott Cooper and the $1.35 billion-asset AmeriServ
Financial in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">&quot;I think I can help,&quot; said Mestrich, who
served as Amalgamated's CEO from 2014 to 2021.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">Cooper, founder and managing member of Driver Management
in New York, disclosed Sept. 25 he intends to nominate Mestrich to serve as an AmeriServ director in 2024, when the company is scheduled
to hold elections for three open seats.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">Cooper also intends to seek a board seat. Driver reported
owning more than 426,000 AmeriServ shares, about 2.5% of the total outstanding, in its latest report filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">AmeriServ is among a handful of banks with unionized
employees. The $7.8 billion-asset, New York-based Amalgamated, founded in 1923 by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, has deep
roots in the labor movement.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">Amalgamated grew assets by 60%, to $6 billion, during
Mestrich's CEO tenure. That included the acquisition of the $353 million New Resource Bank in San Francisco in May 2018. Mestrich also
presided over Amalgamated's 2018 initial public offering, along with its return to profitability following several tough years in the
wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Amalgamated lost $50 million from 2010 to 2014 but has been profitable since 2015. Amalgamated reported
net income totaling $46.2 million in 2020, Mestrich's last full year as CEO.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">&quot;I think my voice and my perspective could help
here,&quot; Mestrich said. &quot;Maybe there's a way to find a solution...The current set of litigation and divisiveness doesn't really
help anyone.&quot;</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">AmeriServe declined to comment and has yet to issue
any statement regarding Mestrich's proposed nomination. Last year, the company added Richard Bloomingdale, retired president of the Pennsylvania
AFL-CIO to its board.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">Still, Cooper said the bank would be hard-pressed
to find reasons for rejecting Mestrich's candidacy. Mestrich &quot;has been in organized labor his entire life and he was a CEO,&quot;
Cooper said. &quot;I don't know how anyone can object to his going on the board on a principled basis to begin with, but to not approve
him for the purposes of this ridiculous bylaw is silly.&quot;</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">The AmeriServ corporate bylaw Cooper to which Cooper
referred is one barring director candidates who currently serve as directors on other corporate boards or who have done so within the
past five years. Mestrich left the Amalgamated board in January 2021. The provision can be waived, a step AmeriServ's board has taken
at least once in the recent past when it named Nedret Vidinli, who had served on the board of First Keystone Financial, a director in
2008, Cooper noted.&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">With that precedent in mind, Cooper has requested
information to help Driver comply with the interlock bylaw, as well as with others. While the sides have exchanged a number of letters,
to date, AmeriServ has declined Cooper's information request.&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">Cooper described AmeriServ's resistance to his nominees
as &quot;just wrong.&quot;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">&quot;It guts the notion that shareholders can elect
directors if the board can veto&quot; nominations, Cooper said. &quot;This is going to drag on potentially for another year&hellip;The
entrenchment and commitment to preserving the status quo at all costs demonstrated by the board borders on the pathological.&quot;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">In an Aug. 31 letter to shareholders, AmeriServ stated
its bylaws &quot;exist to protect the best interests of all shareholders...We take their requirements very seriously. Driver's disregard
of our bylaws and failure to present information essential for shareholders to make full assessments of its candidates' qualifications
and ability to serve on the Board should give everyone serious pause.&quot;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">Mestrich's proposed nomination would represent Cooper's
second stab at effecting some kind of change to the composition of AmeriServ's nine-director board. Branding AmeriServ a longtime underperformer,
Cooper, in January, nominated Julius Rudolph, a prominent Johnstown developer, Brandon Simmons, an attorney and nonprofit executive, as
well as himself for board seats. However the company rejected those nominations in March, citing what it characterized in a press release
as &quot;material defects&quot; in the disclosures Cooper and Driver provided. AmeriServ also cited Cooper's service as a director for
the $4.2 billion-asset First of Long Island Corp. in Melville, New York as a cause for the rejections.&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">AmeriServ followed its decision by filing suit in
the Court of Common Pleas of Cambria County, Pennsylvania, seeking a declaratory judgment invalidating Driver's nominations. Driver sued
AmeriServ in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania March 29. Driver's suit attacked the advance notice
bylaw AmeriServ used to disqualify its three director nominees. Driver also sought an injunction delaying AmeriServ's annual meeting until
its complaint could be adjudicated. While the court declined to postpone the annual meeting &mdash; it took place May 26 &mdash; arguments
on the merits of the advance notice bylaw, including pretrial discovery, continue.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">The dispute has taken a toll on AmeriServ's bottom
line. The company reported a $187,000 second-quarter loss, attributing it to legal and professional fees incurred as part of the dispute
with Cooper, who it described as an &quot;activist investor.&quot; In the Aug. 31 letter to shareholders, AmeriServ disclosed that it
spent $1.7 million in the first half of 2023 battling Cooper. AmeriServ claimed Cooper is &quot;directly responsible for the costs we
have had to incur.&quot;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">Cooper accused AmeriServ of using its corporate bylaws
as a tool to entrench the current board, adding that the company has refused to negotiate despite purported lackluster financial performance.
 &quot;Much of the time there's a settlement,&quot; Cooper said in reference to past proxy contests. &quot;Even when there's no settlement,
there are settlement discussions. This hasn't been the case here at all&hellip;They're hellbent on who knows what.&quot;</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">For its part, AmeriServ stated in press release that
it &quot;sought in good faith to...solicit Driver's views on director refreshment and contemplated governance enhancements,&quot; but
added Driver and Cooper were unwilling &quot;to engage in a productive and private dialogue.&quot;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">AmeriServ's legal and professional charges are likely
to continue mounting as the discovery process in his lawsuit unfolds, according to Cooper. &quot;Here is my playbook: I'm not going anywhere,&quot;
Cooper said. &quot;It's not the end of the world to reach a settlement and get some change on the board.&quot;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">Ironically, after the $12.8 billion-asset First Foundation
Inc. settled a similar dispute with Driver in April, permitting Allison Ball, a director candidate nominated by Driver, to stand for election
at First Foundation's annual meeting in June.&nbsp; Ball, failed to win a board seat.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">&quot;If there's any way I could [continue the] fight
with First Foundation, I'd be doing it, but we just lost,&quot; Cooper said.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">If he does ultimately take a seat at the AmeriServ
board table, Mestrich said he would be an independent voice. While Cooper is proposing his nomination, &quot;I don't work for Driver,&quot;
Mestrich said. &quot;It's an opportunity to be helpful for shareholders.&quot;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">&quot;I think I have always been someone who can represent
everybody and bring people together,&quot; Mestrich added. &quot;Maybe I can contribute and help overcome a contentious situation; maybe
help the company do a little better and maybe, just maybe, be of some value for all the shareholders.&quot;</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">Cooper has not pressed AmeriServ to consider strategic
options, noting a merger would likely be difficult to negotiate in the current economic climate. &quot;Certainly, if an offer came in
they should take it seriously, but I don't know that running a process or hanging out the for sale sign would be the best option,&quot;
Cooper said. &quot;It definitely could be a distraction that doesn't result in anything.&quot;</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">Cooper has called for shaking up AmeriServ's management
team, as well as adjusting the company's incentive policies. Current incentives are set too low, Cooper argued. &quot;Incentives really
work and what [AmeriServ] is doing is incentivizing underperformance by setting targets that are 50% for those of peers.&quot;</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0 12pt; text-align: center"><B>CERTAIN INFORMATION CONCERNING THE PARTICIPANTS</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0 12pt; text-align: justify">Driver Management Company LLC (&ldquo;Driver
Management&rdquo;), together with the other participants named herein (collectively, &ldquo;Driver&rdquo;), intends to nominate, and to
file a preliminary proxy statement and accompanying proxy card with the Securities and Exchange Commission to be used to solicit votes
for the election of, director nominees at the 2024 annual meeting of shareholders of AmeriServ Financial, Inc., a Pennsylvania corporation
(the &ldquo;Company&rdquo;).</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0 12pt; text-align: justify">DRIVER STRONGLY ADVISES ALL SHAREHOLDERS OF
THE COMPANY TO READ ANY PROXY MATERIALS AS THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION. SUCH PROXY MATERIALS
WILL BE AVAILABLE AT NO CHARGE ON THE SEC&rsquo;S WEB SITE AT <FONT STYLE="color: #79A2BD"><U>HTTP://WWW.SEC.GOV</U></FONT>. IN ADDITION,
THE PARTICIPANTS IN THIS PROXY SOLICITATION WILL PROVIDE COPIES OF PROXY MATERIALS WITHOUT CHARGE, WHEN AVAILABLE, UPON REQUEST.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0 12pt; text-align: justify">The participants in the proxy solicitation
are currently anticipated to be Driver Management, Driver Opportunity Partners I LP (&ldquo;Driver Opportunity&rdquo;), J. Abbott R. Cooper
and Keith R. Mestrich.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0 12pt; text-align: justify">As of the date hereof, the participants in
the proxy solicitation beneficially own in the aggregate 426,503 shares of Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Company (the
 &ldquo;Common Stock&rdquo;). As of the date hereof, Driver Opportunity directly beneficially owns 426,503 shares of Common Stock, including
1,000 shares held in record name. Driver Management, as the general partner of Driver Opportunity, may be deemed to beneficially own the
426,503 shares of Common Stock directly beneficially owned by Driver Opportunity. Mr. Cooper, as the managing member of Driver Management,
may be deemed to beneficially own the 426,503 shares of Common Stock directly beneficially owned by Driver Opportunity. As of the date
hereof, Mr. Mestrich does not beneficially own any securities of the Company.</P>

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