Company: DRH-PA
Filing Date: 2025-03-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001298946-25-000038
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Company: DiamondRock Hospitality Co
Filing Date: 2025-03-17
Form: DEF 14A
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 our current Chief Executive Officer.

We follow through on our commitment by implementing what we believe are sound corporate governance practices, including:

#### Recent Developments
• We updated our Guidelines on Significant Governance Issues (“Corporate Governance Guidelines”) to set a numerical limit on the number of directorships our directors and officers may hold to ensure that the Company's directors and officers are not "overboarded". We regularly review and ensure compliance with the Governance Guidelines.

• We added Ms. Lepori to our Board of Directors in early 2025. Women represent 33% of the directors nominated to our Board of Directors for the 2025 annual meeting.

• We adopted a political contribution policy to maintain compliance with applicable political contribution laws and to ensure that any that political contributions made by the Company appropriately advance the Company's interests.

#### Board Structure
• All of the members of our Board of Directors are elected annually;

• Directors are elected by a majority voting standard in uncontested elections and by a plurality of the shares represented in person or by proxy and entitled to vote on the election of directors in a contested election;

#### DiamondRock Hospitality172025 Proxy Statement
| Corporate Governance Principles and Board Matters |

• Our Corporate Governance Guidelines include a Director Resignation Policy pursuant to which if a nominee who is already serving as a director is not elected pursuant to the applicable voting standard, the director must tender his or her resignation to the Board and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee will make a recommendation to the Board on whether to accept or reject the recommendation or take other action. The Board shall be required to accept any resignation tendered by a nominee who is already serving as a director if such nominee receives more votes against than for his or her election at each of two consecutive annual meetings of stockholders if such elections were uncontested;

• We have opted out of a provision of the Maryland Unsolicited Takeover Act, the effect of which is that the Company is prohibited, without the approval of stockholders, from classifying our Board of Directors, and we may only opt back into such provisions with the affirmative vote of a majority of votes cast by stockholders;

• All of the members of our Board of Directors, except for our Chief Executive Officer, are independent of the Company and its management under the listing standards adopted by the NYSE;

• All members of the three standing committees of our Board of Directors (Audit, Compensation and Nominating and Corporate Governance) are independent of the Company and its management under the listing standards adopted by the NYSE;

• The independent