Company: DRH-PA
Filing Date: 2025-03-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001298946-25-000038
Chunk: 58

Company: DiamondRock Hospitality Co
Filing Date: 2025-03-17
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 58
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 which serve as measurement funds, and the deferred amounts are increased or decreased to correspond to the market value of the mutual fund investments. Because the measurement funds are publicly traded securities, we do not consider any of the earnings credited under the deferred compensation plan to be “above market.” We do not provide any matching contribution to any participant, although the plan does permit such contributions.

#### Severance Agreements
We have entered into severance agreements with each of our named executive officers, which provide them with certain severance benefits if employment ends under certain circumstances. We believe that the severance agreements will benefit us by helping to attract and retain the executives and by allowing them to focus on their duties without the distraction of the concern for their personal situations in the event of a termination of their employment, especially in connection with a possible change in control of the Company. Further detail regarding the severance agreements is provided as part of the Executive Officer Compensation Summary below.

#### DiamondRock Hospitality482025 Proxy Statement
| Compensation Discussion and Analysis |

#### Discussion of Certain Compensation Policies

#### Stock Ownership Policy for Executive Officers
We believe that it is important to align the interests of senior management with those of our stockholders. As one concrete step to ensure such alignment, we have a stock ownership policy for each of our executive officers, which sets an annual ownership target for each of our executive officers. The ownership target for an executive is determined by calculating a multiple (six times in the case of the Chief Executive Officer and three times in the case of all other executive officers) of that executive’s base salary for the year and then dividing that result by the average closing price of the Company’s common stock during the first 10 trading days of the same calendar year ($8.85 per share for 2025). Executive officers have five years from the date of attaining their position as an executive officer within which to come into compliance with this policy.

| Executive           |     | Stock Ownership as a Multiple of Salary (#) |     | In Compliance(1) |
| Jeffrey J. Donnelly |     | 6x                                          |     | Yes              |
| Justin L. Leonard   |     | 3x                                          |     | Yes              |
| Briony R. Quinn     |     | 3x                                          |     | Yes              |
| Anika C. Fischer    |     | 3x                                          |     | Yes              |

(1) All named executive officers have met the ownership target except Ms. Fischer, who joined the Company in 2024