Company: BHR-PD
Filing Date: 2025-10-30
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001574085-25-000111
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Company: Braemar Hotels & Resorts Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-10-30
Form: DEF 14A
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 to which the interplay of the candidate's expertise, skills, knowledge and experience with that of other Board members will build a Board that is eﬀective, collegial and responsive to the needs of the Company.

In connection with the merit-based selection of nominees for director, the Board has regard for the need to consider director candidates from different and diverse backgrounds, including sex, race, color, ethnicity, age and geography. Consideration will also be given to the Board's desire for an overall balance of professional diversity, including background, experience, perspective, viewpoint, education and skills. In early 2018, our Board approved specific amendments to the " Selection of Directors " section of the Corporate Governance Guidelines to more specifically include diversity of sex, race, color, ethnicity, age and geography when considering director candidates. The Board, taking into consideration the recommendations of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, is responsible for selecting the director nominees for election by the stockholders and for appointing directors to the Board

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between annual meetings to fill vacancies, with primary emphasis on the criteria set forth above. The Board and the Nominating and Governance Committee assess the effectiveness of the Board's diversity efforts as part of the annual Board evaluation process.

#### Stockholder Nominations
Our bylaws permit stockholders to nominate candidates for election as directors of the Company at an annual meeting of stockholders. Stockholders wishing to nominate director candidates can do so by providing a written notice to the Corporate Secretary, Braemar Hotels & Resorts Inc., 14185 Dallas Parkway, Suite 1200, Dallas, Texas 75254. Stockholder nomination notices and the accompanying certificate, as described below, must be received by the Corporate Secretary not earlier than September 16, 2026 and not later than 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on October 16, 2026 for the nominated individuals to be considered for candidacy at the 2026 annual meeting of stockholders. Such nomination notices must include all information regarding the proposed nominee that would be required to be disclosed in connection with the solicitation of proxies for the election of the proposed nominee as a director in an election contest pursuant to the SEC's proxy rules under the Exchange Act, as well as certain other information regarding the proposed nominee, the stockholder nominating such proposed nominee and certain persons associated with such stockholder, and must be accompanied by a certificate of the nominating stockholder as to certain matters, all as