Company: DRH-PA
Filing Date: 2025-03-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001298946-25-000038
Chunk: 17

Company: DiamondRock Hospitality Co
Filing Date: 2025-03-17
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 17
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 We have also implemented processes for the Company that we believe are designed to promote compliance with insider trading laws, rules and regulations, and applicable listing standards.

#### Prohibition on Hedging, Short Sales, and Pledging
• Pursuant to our Insider Trading Policy, members of our Board of Directors, each named executive officer and certain other designated employees are prohibited from:

• selling any securities of the Company that are not owned at the time of the sale (“short sale”); and

• purchasing or selling puts, calls or other derivative securities of the Company at any time.

• Our Insider Trading Policy also prohibits members of our Board of Directors, each of our executive officers and certain other designated employees from pledging any Company securities as collateral for a loan.

#### Our Board of Directors and its Committees

#### Board of Directors
We are managed under the direction of our Board of Directors. Our directors are: Timothy R. Chi, Jeffrey J. Donnelly, Michael A. Hartmeier, Stephanie D. Lepori, Kathleen A. Merrill, William W. McCarten, William J. Shaw, Bruce D. Wardinski and Tabassum S. Zalotrawala. Mr. McCarten is the Chairman of our Board of Directors and Mr. Wardinski is our lead independent director. Each of our directors stands for election annually.

#### Director Independence
Our Corporate Governance Guidelines provide that a majority of our directors must be independent. In order to qualify as an “independent director” under our independence standards, a director must be “independent” within the meaning of the NYSE listing standards, which provide that our Board of Directors must determine whether a director has a material relationship with us (either directly or as a partner, stockholder or officer of an organization that has a relationship with us) and whether, within the past three years:

• the director was employed by the Company (except on an interim basis);

• an immediate family member of the director was an officer of the Company;

• the director or an immediate family member is a current partner of a firm that is our internal or external auditor; the director is a current employee of such a firm; the director has an immediate family member who is a current employee of such a firm and who participates in the firm’s audit, assurance or tax compliance (but not tax planning) practice; or the director or an immediate family member was within the last three years (but is no longer) a partner or employee of such a firm and personally worked on our audit within that time