Company: KNSL
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001669162-25-000016
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Company: Kinsale Capital Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form: PRE 14A
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 input and recommendations of our CEO when evaluating factors relative to the compensation of the other NEOs. In addition, our CEO is involved in helping the CNCG Committee to set the business goals that are used as the performance goals for the bonus incentive plan, subject to Board approval. Our CEO provides the CNCG Committee with his assessment of the performance of each NEO and his perspective on the factors described below in developing his recommendations for each NEO’s compensation, including salary adjustments, equity grants and incentive bonuses. The CNCG Committee discusses our CEO’s recommendations and then approves or modifies the recommendations in collaboration with the CEO.

In addition to recommendations put forth by our CEO, other members of our executive team are involved in the compensation process by assembling data to present to the CNCG Committee. Other members of our executive management team also occasionally attend portions of the CNCG Committee meetings.

The CNCG Committee is directly responsible for the appointment, compensation, and oversight of the work of any compensation consultant, legal counsel, or other adviser that it retains. The Company bears all expenses of such service providers. The CNCG Committee did not retain a compensation consultant during fiscal 2024. In 2025, the CNCG Committee engaged Semler Brossy, an independent compensation consulting firm, to assist in the review and development of the Company's 2025 Omnibus Incentive Plan.

#### Risk Assessments
With respect to risk related to compensation matters, the CNCG Committee considers, in establishing and reviewing the Company’s compensation program, whether the program encourages unnecessary or excessive risk taking. Executives’ base salaries are fixed in amount and thus do not encourage risk-taking. Bonuses are tied to overall corporate performance. A portion of compensation provided to the executive officers may be in the form of options, restricted stock units and restricted stock that are important to help further align executives’ interests with those of the Company’s stockholders. The CNCG Committee believes that our compensation program does not encourage unnecessary or excessive risk-taking.

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#### Executive Compensation Program Elements
The Company’s primary emphasis in determining compensation is to align the interests of employees, including executive officers, with those of stockholders. We provide a level of fixed compensation and, to varying degrees based on career level, meaningful components of variable compensation based on the Company’s short- and long-term financial performance. NEOs’ individual performance is subjectively evaluated and their compensation is set at levels reasonably competitive with our understanding of compensation levels at other companies in the insurance industry. Our objective is