Company: GDV-PK
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001133228-25-002931
Chunk: 14

Company: GABELLI DIVIDEND & INCOME TRUST
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 14
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 the Fund’s Audit, Nominating, ad hocProxy Voting, and ad hoc Pricing Committees, and is a member of
both multi-fund ad hoc Compensation Committees. Mr. Zizza serves on comparable or other board committees with respect to other
funds on whose boards he sits. In addition to serving on the boards of other funds in the Fund Complex, Mr. Zizza is currently and has
previously been a director of other public companies. He was also the President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Financial Officer
of a large NYSE-listed construction company. Mr. Zizza received his Bachelor’s degree and MBA in Finance from St. John’s
University, which awarded him an Honorary Doctorate in Commercial Sciences.

Trustees – Leadership Structure
and Oversight Responsibilities

Overall responsibility for general
oversight of the Fund rests with the Board. The Board has appointed Mr. Conn as the Lead Independent Trustee. The Lead Independent Trustee
presides over executive sessions of the Trustees and also serves between meetings of the Board as a liaison with service providers, officers,
counsel, and other Trustees on a wide variety of matters including scheduling agenda items for Board meetings. Designation as such does
not impose on the Lead Independent Trustee any obligations or standards greater than or different from other Trustees. The Board has
established a Nominating Committee and an Audit Committee to assist the Board in the oversight of the management and affairs of the Fund.
The Board also has an ad hoc Proxy Voting Committee that exercises beneficial ownership responsibilities on behalf of the Fund
in selected situations. From time to time, the Board establishes additional committees or informal working groups, such as an ad hocPricing Committee related to securities offerings by the Fund, to address specific matters or assigns one of its members to work
with trustees or directors of other funds in the Fund Complex on special committees or working groups that address fund complex-wide
matters, such as the multi-fund ad hoc Compensation Committee relating to the compensation of the Chief Compliance Officer for
all the funds in the Fund Complex and a separate multi-fund ad hoc Compensation Committee relating to the compensation of certain
other officers of the closed-end funds in the Fund Complex.

All of the Fund’s Trustees,
other than Mr. Gabelli and Mses. Mullady and Peeney, are Independent Trustees and the Board believes it is able to provide effective
oversight of the Fund’s service providers. In addition to providing feedback and direction during Board meetings, the Independent
Trust