Company: CIO
Filing Date: 2025-03-12
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-052437
Chunk: 21

Company: City Office REIT, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-12
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 21
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, and Mark Murski serves as the chair of the Compensation Committee. Our Compensation Committee is composed only of directors who are independent in compliance with applicable SEC and NYSE rules. The Compensation Committee has the sole authority to retain, and terminate, any compensation consultant to assist in the evaluation of employee compensation and to approve the consultant’s fees and the other terms and conditions of the consultant’s retention. The Compensation Committee’s responsibilities include, among other matters:

| • |     | reviewing and approving on an annual basis the corporate goals and objectives relevant to our Chief Executive Officer’s compensation, if any, evaluating our Chief Executive Officer’s performance in light of such goals and objectives and determining and approving the remuneration of our Chief Executive Officer based on such evaluation; |

| • |     | reviewing and approving the compensation, if any, of all of our other officers; |

| • |     | reviewing and approving the compensation of all of our directors; |

| • |     | reviewing our executive compensation policies and plans; |

| • |     | evaluating the performance of our officers; |

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| • |     | administering the Company’s Equity Incentive Plan (the “EIP”) and the issuance of any common stock or other equity awards granted to plan participants; |

| • |     | setting performance targets under the EIP and determining annual cash bonuses for our officers according to the satisfaction of those performance targets; |

| • |     | preparing compensation committee reports; and |

| • |     | assisting management in complying with our proxy statement and Annual Report on Form 10-K disclosure requirements. |

In fulfilling its responsibilities, the Compensation Committee shall be entitled to delegate any or all of its responsibilities to a sub-committeeof the Compensation Committee to the extent consistent with the Company’s charter, bylaws, and applicable law and rules of markets in which the Company’s securities then trade. Pursuant to the Compensation Committee charter, the Compensation Committee may not delegate its responsibility to evaluate non-executiveofficer performance and compensation or its responsibility to review and approve all officers’ employment agreements, executive retirement plans and severance agreements. Our Board of Directors adopted a written charter for the Compensation Committee, which is available on our corporate website at http://www.cioreit.com. Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee Our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee consists of Sabah Mirza, Michael Mazan and John McLernon, and Sabah Mirza serves as the chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Our Nominating and