Company: MSTR
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-100720
Chunk: 36

Company: Strategy Inc
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 36
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 and managing risks and providing input on those policies and practices. In general, our Board oversees risk management activities relating to business strategy, capital allocation, organizational structure, and certain operational risks. Our Audit Committee oversees risk management activities relating to financial controls, and legal and compliance risks, and coordinates the Board’s oversight of data privacy and cybersecurity risks. Our Compensation Committee oversees risk management activities relating to the Company’s compensation policies and practices, and our Investment Committee analyzes and considers investment and financial risks in connection with the execution of our bitcoin strategy. In addition, since risk issues often overlap, committees from time to time can request that the full Board discuss particular risk issues.

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Director Candidates As noted above, we have established a Nominating Committee, which is responsible for evaluating and recommending director nominees to our Board. The Nominating Committee will, from time to time, evaluate biographical information and background materials relating to potential candidates and interview selected candidates. The Nominating Committee may also use a third-party search firm to identify director candidates in situations where particular qualifications are required or where existing contacts are not sufficient to identify an appropriate candidate. In considering whether to nominate any particular candidate for election to the Board, the Nominating Committee uses various criteria to evaluate each candidate, including each candidate’s integrity, business acumen, knowledge of our business and industry, experience, diligence, conflicts of interest, and ability to act in the interests of our stockholders. In addition, the Board has adopted a Board Diversity Policy, under which the pool of candidates from which Board nominees are chosen is required to include candidates who are diverse with respect to gender, race, ethnicity and/or membership in a historically underrepresented group. In addition, the Nominating Committee is required, in selecting Board nominees, to consider candidates from both corporate positions beyond the executive suite and non-traditionalenvironments, including government, academic, and nonprofit organizations. The Nominating Committee will assess the effectiveness of the Board Diversity Policy whenever it considers adding one or more new directors by subjectively considering the extent to which candidates who are diverse with respect to gender, race, ethnicity and/or membership in a historically underrepresented group were identified for consideration in accordance with the Board Diversity Policy. The Nominating Committee also considers whether a potential nominee would satisfy the Nasdaq listing rules’ definition of an independent director and the SEC’s definition of an audit committee financial expert. The Nominating Committee does not set specific minimum qualifications or assign