Company: SLGN
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-083646
Chunk: 11

Company: SILGAN HOLDINGS INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 11
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 a Director of the Company at our annual meeting of stockholders in 2024.

Each of Leigh J. Abramson, William T. Donovan, Brad A. Lich, Fiona Cleland Nielsen and Niharika Ramdev is an “independent director,” as defined in the listing standards of the NYSE. Shannon Miller also qualifies as an “independent director,” as defined in the listing standards of the NYSE. Each of Kimberly A. Fields, who served as a Director of the Company during 2024 until her resignation on July 11, 2024, and Joseph M. Jordan, who served as a Director of the Company during 2024 until his retirement on May 28, 2024 upon the expiration of his term of office as a Director of the Company, was an “independent director,” as defined in the listing standards of the NYSE. The independent directors held four meetings during 2024 following regularly scheduled quarterly meetings of the Board of Directors, without the presence of management or any inside directors.

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Our Board of Directors met five times and acted by written consent five times during 2024. Each of our Directors attended at least 75 percent of the aggregate of: (1) the total number of meetings of the Board of Directors held in 2024 during which such person was a Director and (2) the total number of meetings held in 2024 by all committees of the Board of Directors on which such person served during which such person was a Director.

The Company does not have a policy with regard to director attendance at annual meetings of stockholders. Two of our Directors attended last year’s annual meeting of stockholders.

#### Risk Oversight and Board Structure
**Our Board of Directors as a whole is responsible for risk oversight for the Company. Our Board of Directors risk oversight process builds upon management’s assessment of the Company’s risks and processes for managing and mitigating such risks. At meetings of our Board of Directors, the executive officers of the Company regularly address and discuss with our Board of Directors risks of the Company and the manner in which the Company manages or mitigates its risks. While our Board of Directors has the ultimate responsibility for risk oversight for the Company, our Board of Directors works in conjunction with its committees on certain aspects of its risk oversight responsibilities. In particular, our Audit Committee focuses on financial reporting risks and related controls and procedures. Our Compensation Committee strives to create compensation practices that do not encourage excessive levels of risk taking that would be inconsistent with