Company: VEEV
Filing Date: 2025-05-05
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-017353
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Company: VEEVA SYSTEMS INC
Filing Date: 2025-05-05
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 29
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 applicable environmental laws and regulations. Our Audit Committee is responsible for oversight of our environmental risks and environmental management program. We have also taken steps to integrate environmental sustainability into our supply chain. Our Supplier Code of Conduct requires vendors to comply with all environmental laws and maintain environmentally sustainable business practices. We also consider a vendor's environmental impact in our procurement process. For example, our two main computing infrastructure providers — Salesforce and Amazon Web Services — have made commitments to environmental sustainability initiatives. We also regularly engage with customers on environmental matters so that we can better align with their environmental management priorities. To meet our environmental commitments, we practice the following: Pollution Reduction

| • | Our “Work Anywhere” policy has reduced our commuting environmental impact. We support our workforce through technology tools that enable virtual communication and collaboration. |

| • | We purchase eco-friendly office supplies and cleaning supplies. |

Energy and Water Efficiency

| • | We track our energy use and purchase renewable energy where available. For example, in 2024, 100% of the energy purchased for our global headquarters building in Pleasanton, California, and European headquarters building in Barcelona, Spain, came from sustainable hydropower, wind, and solar sources. |

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Our Company

| • | We choose equipment, lighting, and appliances that minimize energy and water usage. Because we made the strategic decision to purchase our global headquarters building, we are able to implement a number of sustainability programs, including a solar power array and lighting and water efficiency. In 2022, our global headquarters earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR certification. |

Waste Reduction

| • | All of our major offices have recycling and e-waste programs in place. |

| • | We partner with asset disposal companies that re-use our retired electronic equipment after certified data destruction and use certified recycling processes where re-use is not possible. |

Our Approach to Internal Audit The primary focus of our internal audit function is to ensure the integrity, energy, and competence of our leadership team. We recognize that this is a non-traditional approach to internal audit—one that is not easily quantified—and involves dialogue and judgment to a greater degree than traditional internal audits. We take this approach based on the view that the root cause of any number of enterprise risks is a failure in one of these areas. Our Security and Privacy Programs Our ability to maintain the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our customers’ data is critical to