Company: VSAT
Filing Date: 2025-07-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-165436
Chunk: 9

Company: VIASAT INC
Filing Date: 2025-07-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 9
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| Our senior management is responsible for assessing and managing the company’s various exposures to risk on a day-to-day basis, including the creation of appropriate risk management programs and policies.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                      |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |

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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE PRINCIPLES AND BOARD MATTERS •Board Leadership and Independence Board Leadership and Independence Enhanced Board Leadership Structure. The Board regularly evaluates its leadership structure to ensure the best interests of the company and its stockholders are represented. The Board leadership structure is currently comprised of (1) a combined Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer and (2) a Lead Independent Director. In response to stockholder feedback, the role of Lead Independent Director was established in 2019 to provide strong independent leadership for the Board. The Lead Independent Director’s responsibilities include presiding over all meetings of the Board at which the Chairman is not present, calling meetings of independent directors and functioning as a liaison with the Chairman. The Board believes that a Lead Independent Director, coupled with the combined Chairman and Chief Executive Officer positions, provides the most efficient and effective leadership model for Viasat. As the individual primarily responsible for the day-to-daymanagement of the company’s business operations, our Chief Executive Officer is best positioned to provide clear insight and direction on business strategies and plans to both the Board and management. A single person, acting in the capacities of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, promotes unity of vision and leadership, which allows for a single, clear focus for management to execute the company’s business strategies and plans. Together with a Lead Independent Director, this leadership structure allows the Board to exercise independent oversight while enabling direct access to information related to the day-to-daymanagement of the company’s business operations. Majority Independent Board. The criteria established by The Nasdaq Stock Market, or Nasdaq, for director independence include various objective standards and a subjective test. The subjective test requires that each independent director not have a relationship which, in the opinion of the Board, would interfere with the exercise of independent judgment in carrying out the responsibilities of a director. Under the objective standards, a member of the Board is not considered independent if, for example, he or she is (1) an employee of Viasat, or (2) a partner in, or a