Company: VEEV
Filing Date: 2025-05-05
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-017353
Chunk: 9

Company: VEEVA SYSTEMS INC
Filing Date: 2025-05-05
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 9
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. To encourage those efforts, our Board has adopted a Directors Continuing Education Policy (the “Director Education Policy”) that encourages all directors to pursue ongoing education and development on topics that they deem relevant given their individual backgrounds and committee assignments on our Board. Our directors are encouraged and provided with opportunities to attend educational sessions on subjects that would assist them in discharging their duties. Pursuant to the Director Education Policy, we will reimburse directors up to $12,000 each fiscal year to pursue education and development. In addition and in order to facilitate ongoing education, our management provides to our directors on a periodic basis pertinent articles and information relating to our business, our competitors, and corporate governance and regulatory issues. Shareholder Recommendations for Nominations to the Board; Proxy Access Our Nominating and Governance Committee has adopted Policies and Procedures for Director Candidates. Shareholder recommendations for candidates to our Board must be received by December 31 of the year prior to the year in which the recommended candidates will be considered for

| 14Veeva Systems Inc. | 2025 Proxy Statement |

TABLE OF CONTENTS How We Are Selected, Elected, and Evaluated nomination; must be directed in writing to our principal executive offices, Attention: Corporate Secretary; and must include the candidate’s name, home and business contact information, detailed biographical data and qualifications, information regarding any relationships between us and the candidate within the last three years, and evidence of the recommending person’s ownership of our capital stock. Such recommendations must also include a statement from the recommending shareholder in support of the candidate, particularly within the context of the criteria for membership on the Board, including issues of character, judgment, diversity, age, independence, expertise, corporate experience, other commitments and the like, personal references, and an indication of the candidate’s willingness to serve and fulfill the duties of a director of Veeva as a PBC. In addition, in 2021, we adopted “proxy access,” whereby a shareholder (or a group of up to 20 shareholders) that has held at least 3% of the voting power of our capital stock for three years or more may nominate candidates for up to the greater of (i) two or (ii) 20% of the available director seats and have those nominees included in our proxy materials, provided that the shareholder and nominees satisfy the requirements specified in our Bylaws. Any shareholder who intends to use these procedures to nominate a candidate for election to the Board for inclusion in our proxy statement for the 2025 annual meeting of shareholders