Company: BSX
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000885725-25-000017
Chunk: 33

Company: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 33
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 90% independent. In addition, combined Chairman and Chief Executive Officer roles allows the Company to communicate its business, strategy and value to stockholders, employees, and other stakeholders with a single voice. The Board routinely reviews its leadership structure to evaluate whether it remains appropriate for the Company.

#### Annual Board and Committee Self-Evaluations
In accordance with its charter, our Nominating and Governance Committee oversees an annual self-evaluation process for the Board and each of its committees to assess their performance. As part of the self-evaluation process, each director provides their assessment of the effectiveness of the Board and its committees, including individual contributions and the effectiveness of the Lead Independent Director. The Nominating and Governance Committee selects the format and method of the evaluation each year, alternating between anonymous surveys and in-depth interviews conducted by a third-party facilitator. In 2024, the Nominating and Governance Committee engaged a third-party facilitator to interview each member of the Board, as well as key members of the management team. At the conclusion of the process, the facilitator reviewed the results with Board leadership, provided a written report on findings and recommendations and held individual feedback sessions with each director. The evaluation process encourages candid feedback and helps to ensure the effectiveness and continual improvement of the Board and its committees.

#### Risk Oversight
Our Board oversees an enterprise-wide approach to risk management, designed to support the achievement of our strategic and organizational objectives, to improve long-term organizational performance and to enhance stockholder value.

A fundamental part of the Board’s risk oversight is understanding the individual risks our Company faces, the steps management is taking to mitigate those risks, including the framework used by management for the coordinated oversight, control and continuous improvement of processes used to manage risk, and to assess management’s appetite for risk.

While the Board has the ultimate responsibility for risk oversight, each committee of the Board also oversees risk to the extent it relates to the committee’s responsibilities, as outlined below. Each committee provides reports in its respective area of responsibility to the Board at the next regularly scheduled Board meeting immediately following the committee meeting.

#### 242025 Proxy Statement

#### Corporate Governance
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|                    |     | Our Board receives regular reports from management on matters relating to strategic and operational initiatives, business continuity and resiliency, cybersecurity, financial performance and legal developments