Company: CZR
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-093716
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Company: Caesars Entertainment, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 25
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 risks associated with:•  Climate change•  Responsible gaming•  Team Member and customer well-being•  Maintaining sustainable operations•  Human capital management oversightCompliance CommitteeAs a publicly traded corporation registered with and licensed by multiple regulatory bodies and as required by the Mississippi Gaming Commission, Nevada Gaming Commission and New Jersey Casino Control Commission, we maintain a Compliance Committee which implements and administers our Compliance Plan. The Compliance Committee’s duties include investigating key team members, vendors of goods and services, sources of financing, consultants, lobbyists and others who wish to do substantial business with us or our subsidiaries and making recommendations to our management concerning suitability. Our Compliance Committee currently includes independent directors Messrs. Fahrenkopf and Pegram, and non-director members Mr. A.J. “Bud” Hicks (who serves as the Chairperson and an independent member of the Compliance Committee), Mr. Anthony L. Carano (who serves as the President and Chief Operating Officer), Ms. Stephanie Lepori (who serves as the Chief Administrative and Accounting Officer) and Mr. Jeffrey Hendricks (who serves as the Compliance Officer). Mr. Edmund L. Quatmann, Jr. (who serves as our Chief Legal Officer) also serves as an ex-officio member of the Compliance Committee. The Compliance Committee held four meetings in 2024.The Compliance Committee is responsible for overseeing risks associated with our gaming activities and regulatory compliance.17
CYBERSECURITY OVERSIGHT Our Board considers cybersecurity risk as critical to the enterprise and is responsible for reviewing our cybersecurity risk profile, including management’s design, implementation and enforcement of our cybersecurity risk management program. In January 2024, we hired a Chief Information Security Officer (“CISO”) with significant experience in leading cybersecurity teams to assume the leadership of management’s responsibilities and governance. The Board of Directors receive periodic updates and presentations on cybersecurity topics from our CISO, supported by internal security staff and/or external experts, as part of the Board’s continuing education on topics that impact public companies. The Board has determined that retaining responsibility for risks related to cybersecurity oversight is appropriate, given the complexity of the risks associated with cybersecurity and the attention required to appropriately review and monitor such risks. The full Board lends its collective experience and attention to discussing and overseeing potential risks identified by management and stays up to date on management’s risk-mitigation processes related to cybersecurity. EXECUTIVE SESSION AND MEETING ATTENDANCE Our Corporate Governance Guidelines provide that the independent