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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000921895-23-002749
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	DFAN14A
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
FILED AS OF DATE:		20231212
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20231212

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:		231481416

	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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    <TD STYLE="width: 100%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; border-bottom: Black 0.5pt solid"><P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center">AMERISERV FINANCIAL, INC.</P>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center">J. ABBOTT R. COOPER</P>

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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 December 12, 2023, Driver
sent the following letter to J. Michael Adams, Chairman of the board of directors of the Company:</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0 12pt; text-align: right"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 8pt">December 12, 2023</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0 12pt"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 8pt">Mr. J. Michael Adams<BR>
Chairman of the Board<BR>
AmeriServ Financial, Inc.<BR>
216 Franklin Street<BR>
Johnstown, PA 15901</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0 12pt"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 8pt">Via email to <FONT STYLE="color: #0563C1"><U>jmadams@ameriserv.com
</U></FONT>and <FONT STYLE="color: #0563C1"><U>blayton@ameriserv.com</U></FONT></FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0 12pt"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 8pt">Mr. Adams,</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0 12pt"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 8pt">A Form 10-Q must include the information
required by Item 103 of Regulation S-K, which requires a registrant to:</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0.5in 12pt"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 8pt">Describe briefly any material
pending legal proceedings, other than ordinary routine litigation incidental to the business, to which the registrant or any of its subsidiaries
is a party or of which any of their property is the subject. <I>Include the name of the court or agency in which the proceedings are
pending, the date instituted, the principal parties thereto, a description of the factual basis alleged to underlie the proceedings and
the relief sought.</I></FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0 12pt"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 8pt">Both the Company&rsquo;s Form 10-Q
for the perioded ended June 30, 2023 (the &ldquo;<U>2Q23 10-Q</U>&rdquo;) and the Company&rsquo;s Form 10-Q for the period ended September
30, 2023 (the &ldquo;<U>3Q23 10-Q</U>&rdquo;) contain the following disclosure:</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0.5in 12pt"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 8pt">There are no material proceedings
to which the Company or any of our subsidiaries are a party or by which, to the Company&rsquo;s knowledge, we, or any of our subsidiaries,
are threatened. <I>All legal proceedings presently pending or threatened against the Company or our subsidiaries involve routine litigation
incidental to our business or that of the subsidiary involved and are not material in respect to the amount in controversy</I>.</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0 12pt"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 8pt">However, the 2Q23 10-Q provides:</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0.5in 12pt"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 8pt">&hellip;..NON-INTEREST EXPENSE&hellip;..Non-interest
expense for the second quarter of 2023 totaled $13.2 million and increased by $1.1 million, or 8.8%, from the prior year&rsquo;s second
quarter. Factors contributing to the higher level of non-interest expense for the quarter included:</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0.5in 12pt"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 8pt">&#9679;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<I>a
$1.1 million, or 127.6%, rise in professional fees due primarily to increased legal and professional fees related to the Company&rsquo;s
recent annual meeting proxy contest and defense against an activist investor. The Company is still involved in ongoing litigation with
an activist investor</I>.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0.5in 12pt"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 8pt">&hellip;..NON-INTEREST EXPENSE&hellip;..Non-interest
expense for the first nine months of 2023 totaled $37.2 million and increased by $1.9 million, or 5.4%, from the prior year&rsquo;s first
nine months. Factors contributing to the higher level of non-interest expense for the nine-month period included:</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0.5in 12pt"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 8pt">&#9679;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<I>a
$1.9 million, or 80.5%, rise in professional fees due primarily to increased legal and professional fees related to the defense against
an activist investor and a proxy contest at the 2023 annual meeting. These costs amounted to $2.0 million for the first nine months of
2023. As expected, costs related to the activist shareholder issue declined meaningfully between the second and third quarters of 2023
by $828,000. However, given a recent increase in activity by the activist investor, the Company cannot determine at this time whether
these costs will remain at a lower level in the fourth quarter of 2023</I>;</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0 12pt"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 8pt">In addition, on June 6, 2023, AmeriServ
Financial Inc. (&ldquo;<U>AmeriServ</U>&rdquo; or the &ldquo;<U>Company</U>&rdquo;) filed a complaint (the &ldquo;<U>Complaint</U>&rdquo;)
in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania against Jack Babich, the Company&rsquo;s former Senior Vice
President for Human Resources initiated legal proceedings referred to as the &ldquo;<U>Babich Litigation</U>.&rdquo;</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0 12pt"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 8pt">The Complaint states, in pertinent
part:</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0.5in 12pt"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 8pt">Plaintiff AmeriServ Financial,
Inc. brings this action against its former Senior Vice President for Human Resources, Jack Babich, for breach of his severance agreement
for divulging confidential Company information, including sensitive and private personnel information about another former AmeriServ
employee, which information was largely inaccurate, to AmeriServ shareholder Driver Opportunity Partners I, LP (&ldquo;Driver&rdquo;)
in connection with Driver&rsquo;s efforts to obtain Company books and records and wage a proxy solicitation contest against the Company
for board of director seats.</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0 12pt"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 8pt">Based on the above, it would appear
that the Company is party to several material legal proceedings as to which insufficient or non-existent disclosure has been made in
periodic reports filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company&rsquo;s failure to comply with its reporting
requirements raises obvious questions regarding the Company&rsquo;s internal controls. More to the point, however, the Company&rsquo;s
failure to comply with disclosure requirements regarding litigation suggests that the Company, more specifically its board of directors
(the &ldquo;<U>Board</U>&rdquo;), is trying to conceal from shareholders the vast sums and efforts being spent by the Company to further
entrench a Board that has overseen decades of poor performance and mismanagement.</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0 12pt"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 8pt">Please advise when corrective disclosures
will be made.</FONT></P>

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<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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