Company: DHR
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000313616-25-000081
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Company: DANAHER CORP /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form: DEF 14A
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izes new directors with Danaher’s businesses, strategies, policies and DBS; assists them in developing company and industry knowledge to optimize their Board service; and educates them with respect to their fiduciary duties and legal responsibilities and Danaher’s sustainability framework.

| 2025 Notice of Annual Meeting and Proxy Statement |     | 18 |

Corporate Governance

| Table of Contents                                              |     |    |
| Corporate Governance Overview                                  |     | 19 |
| Board Leadership, Succession Planning and Management Oversight |     | 19 |
| Board of Directors and Committees of the Board                 |     | 23 |
| Shareholder Engagement and Alignment                           |     | 26 |
| Sustainability                                                 |     | 27 |
| Other Corporate Governance Matters                             |     | 28 |

### Corporate Governance Overview
Our Board of Directors recognizes that Danaher’s success over the long-term requires a robust framework of corporate governance that serves the best interests of all our shareholders and promotes robust risk oversight. Please see "Proxy Summary — Corporate Governance Overview" for information about our corporate governance framework.

Board Leadership, Succession Planning and Management Oversight

Board Leadership Structure

Chairman of the Board

The Board has separated the positions of Chairman and CEO because it believes that, at this time, this structure best enables the Board to ensure that Danaher’s business and affairs are managed effectively and in the best interests of shareholders. This is particularly the case in light of the fact that the Company’s Chairman is Steven Rales, a co-founder of the Company who owns approximately 6.1% of the Company’s outstanding shares, served as CEO of the Company from 1984 to 1990 and continues to serve as an executive officer of the Company. As a result of his substantial ownership stake in the Company, the Board believes that Mr. Rales is uniquely able to understand, articulate and advocate for the rights and interests of the Company’s shareholders. Moreover, Mr. Rales uses his management experience with the Company and Board tenure to help ensure that the non-management directors have a keen understanding of the Company’s business as well as the strategic and other risks and opportunities that the Company faces. This enables the Board to more effectively provide insight and direction to, and exercise oversight of, the Company’s President and CEO and the rest of the management team responsible for the Company’s day-to-day business (including with respect to risk management).

Lead Independent Director

Because Mr. Rales is not independent within the meaning of the New York Stock Exchange ("