Company: KD
Filing Date: 2025-06-16
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-022676
Chunk: 1

Company: Kyndryl Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-06-16
Form: DEF 14A
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 outcomes-led consulting                                                                      |     | An open integration digital business platform                                                                                                      |     | Design-led co-creation experience                                                                                                      |
| Providing our customers access to proven expertise to address their most vexing technology challenges |     | Giving our customers real-time insights into their complex IT estates and unprecedented control over customizing their mission-critical operations |     | Redefining how we engage and co-create solutions with customers and partners on new innovative solutions through a design-led approach |

| Our Culture of Shared Success                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| We have built a differentiated, services-based culture — that we call The Kyndryl Way — to attract, retain, develop and engage a highly skilled workforce. Core to that culture is powering human progress to drive a positive impact on our business aligned with our corporate values by supporting environmental stewardship, fostering employees' sense of belonging and promoting good governance practices. |

| * | Consists of $1.8 billion of cash and $3.2 billion of undrawn senior unsecured credit facility; numbers may not add due to rounding. |

| 2|KYNDRYL2025 PROXY STATEMENT |

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Governance Highlights

| Effective Board Leadership, Independent                                                                                                                                            
 Oversight and Strong Corporate Governance                                                                                                                                          |     |                                                                                                            |     | Stockholder Rights and                                                                  
 Accountability                                                                          |
| Regular reviews of the Company's long-term business strategy, with an annual dedicated session for a full strategic review with senior management and other subject matter experts 
 100% of Committee members are independent                                                                                                                                          
 Lead Independent Director tasked with robust and well-defined responsibilities                                                                                                     
 No “overboarded” directors                                                                                                                                                         |     | Annual election of Chairman and Lead Independent Director                                                  
 Executive sessions led by Lead Independent Director or Committee Chair at each Board and committee meeting 
 Annual review of board leadership structure                                                                
 Annual director self-evaluation and committee assessment to ensure board effectiveness                     
 Robust Code of Conduct                                                                                     
 Commitment to, and oversight of, corporate citizenship                                                     |     | Majority voting for directors in uncontested elections with director resignation policy 
 Single voting class                                                                     
 Proxy access                                                                            
 No stockholder rights plan                                                              
 No supermajority voting provisions                                                      
 Phasing out staggered board beginning at this year's Annual Meeting                     
 Stockholders have ability to call special meetings                                      |

Board of Directors BOARD ATTRIBUTES

| KYNDRYL2025 PROXY STATEMENT|3 |

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KYNDRYL BOARD

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