Company: CGC
Filing Date: 2025-08-07
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-075215
Chunk: 143

Company: Canopy Growth Corp
Filing Date: 2025-08-07
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 143
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 results. However, the Board and management are better able to perform their responsibilities if there is an ongoing dialogue among the Chief Executive Officer, other senior managers and Board members. To facilitate these discussions, directors will have access to the Company’s senior management team and are encouraged to make regular contact. Board members are normally expected to inform the Chief Executive Officer prior to contacting any member of the Company’s senior management team on any substantive matter. Board members, however, are not expected to inform the Chief Executive Officer that they are contacting members of the Company’s senior management team regarding the normal activities of their Board committees. Board members shall use sound business judgment to ensure that such contact is not distracting. The Board shall have the right at any time to retain independent outside accounting, financial, legal or other advisers as it deems necessary to fulfill its duties and responsibilities, and the Company shall provide appropriate funding, as determined by the Board or any committee, to compensate such independent outside advisers, as well as to cover the ordinary administrative expenses incurred by the Board and its committees in carrying out their duties. 4.2. BOARD INTERACTION WITH INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS, ANALYSTS, PRESS AND CUSTOMERS Generally, management should speak for the Company. Each director should refer all inquiries from institutional investors, analysts, the press, or customers to the Chief Executive Officer or his or her designee. 5. DIRECTOR COMPENSATION It is the Company’s policy to compensate non-management and independent directors competitively relative to comparable companies and to align directors’ interests with the long-term interests of the Company’s shareholders. The Governance Committee will recommend annually to the full Board for its consideration the form and amounts of compensation and benefits for non-management directors. In its deliberations, the Governance Committee and the Board shall consider whether the levels of director compensation could impair independence and shall critically evaluate any consulting, charitable contribution, or other potential indirect compensation arrangements. In addition, the Governance Committee and the Board shall seek to ensure that the compensation realistically reflects the responsibilities and risks involved in being an effective director. Directors who are current employees of the Company shall receive no additional compensation for Board service. 6. DIRECTOR ORIENTATION AND CONTINUING EDUCATION The Company will provide each new director with an orientation packet to familiarize him or her with, among other things, the Company’s (i) business and strategic plans, (ii) significant financial, accounting and risk management issues, (iii) compliance programs, (iv) Code, (v) Insider Trading Policy, (