Company: NE-WTA
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-015025
Chunk: 35

Company: Noble Corp plc
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 35
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 to her appointment to the Board.

#### 242025 Proxy Statement |Noble Corporation plc

#### Resolutions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7

#### Annual General Meeting of Shareholders
Under the Company’s policy on director attendance at annual general meetings of shareholders, all directors are expected to attend each annual general meeting in person or telephonically, and any director who is unable to attend the annual general meeting is responsible for notifying the Chairman of the Board in advance of the meeting. All eight directors then in office attended the 2024 annual general meeting of shareholders.

Board Leadership Structure

Our Articles of Association and corporate governance guidelines provide our Board the flexibility either to combine or to separate the positions of Chair and CEO. At the current time, our Board believes that the Company and our shareholders are best served by separating the positions of Chair and CEO. The separation of duties will allow Mr. Sledge and Mr. Eifler to focus on their respective responsibilities as Chairman and CEO. Further, the Board believes our current structure, with an independent Chairman who is well-versed in the needs of a complex business and has strong, well-defined governance duties, gives our Board a strong leadership and corporate governance structure that best serves the needs of Noble and its shareholders. Our Board believes that Mr. Sledge is well suited to serve as Chairman given his significant managerial, financial and operational experience, as well as his experience in corporate governance. As a result of his broad-based and relevant background, as well as his deep knowledge of our business, Mr. Sledge is well-positioned as Chairman to provide constructive, independent and informed guidance and oversight to management.

Our Board believes that the Company and our shareholders are best served when directors are free to exercise their respective independent judgment to determine what leadership structure works best for us based upon the then current facts and circumstances. Although our Board may determine to combine the positions of Chairman and CEO in the future should circumstances change, we believe that separating these positions is currently the right leadership structure for our Company.

In addition to Mr. Eifler, our Board currently has six additional members, all of whom are independent under the NYSE corporate governance rules as described under “— Board Independence .” Pursuant to our corporate governance guidelines, our non-management directors meet in executive sessions without our CEO or any other member of management present in connection with each regularly scheduled meeting of our Board. As independent Chair, Mr. Sledge presides at these regularly scheduled executive sessions of our