Company: ACCO
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-046374
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Company: ACCO BRANDS Corp
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form: DEF 14A
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 nine director nominees are women and two director nominees have ethnically diverse backgrounds.

Director Qualifications and Nomination Process Directors are responsible for overseeing the Company's business consistent with their fiduciary duties to stockholders. The Board of Directors believes that there are general requirements applicable to all directors as well as other skills and experience that should be represented on our Board as a whole, but not necessarily in each director. The Board of Directors and the Nominating, Governance and Sustainability Committee consider a variety of factors, including the entirety of the qualifications of directors and director nominees individually, as well as in the broader context of the Board's overall composition, the Company's strategy and the current and future needs of the Board and the Company. Among the factors considered are the potential director's judgment, independence, diversity, business and educational background, experience, stature, public service, absence of conflicts of interest,

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integrity, ethics and ownership of Company stock, as well as his or her level of commitment to stockholder value creation and his or her ability and willingness to devote sufficient time to serve on the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors and the Nominating, Governance and Sustainability Committee require that each director be a recognized person of high integrity with a proven record of success in his or her field.

In identifying and evaluating director candidates for recommendation as nominees to the Board of Directors, the Nominating, Governance and Sustainability Committee will determine, among other things, whether there are any evolving needs of the Board of Directors and the Company that require a director with particular expertise, experience or background to fill that need. The Nominating, Governance and Sustainability Committee may retain a third-party search firm to locate and provide information on candidates that meet the needs of the Board of Directors. The Chairperson of the Nominating, Governance and Sustainability Committee and some or all of the members of the Nominating, Governance and Sustainability Committee and the Board will interview potential candidates that are deemed appropriate. If the Nominating, Governance and Sustainability Committee determines that a potential candidate meets the needs of the Board of Directors, has the qualifications, and meets the standards set forth in the Company's Corporate Governance Principles it will recommend to the Board of Directors the nomination of the candidate.

The Nominating, Governance and Sustainability Committee will consider director candidates recommended by stockholders if properly submitted to the Nominating, Governance and Sustainability Committee. Stockholders wishing to recommend persons for consideration by the Nominating, Governance