Company: CHD
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-059273
Chunk: 29

Company: CHURCH & DWIGHT CO INC /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 29
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 the Company’s management and affairs. Mr. Saligram has served as the Lead Director since February 2023, succeeding Mr. Irwin in that role. Key responsibilities of the Lead Director are to:

| • |     | assist the Board, the Chief Executive Officer and other members of management in promoting compliance with and implementation of the Corporate Governance Guidelines; |

| • |     | preside at the executive sessions of the independent directors and have the authority to call additional executive sessions or meetings of the independent directors; |

| • |     | preside at Board meetings in the Chair’s absence; |

| • |     | review and approve information sent to the Board; |

| • |     | review and approve meeting agendas for the Board and approve meeting schedules to ensure sufficient time for discussion of all agenda items; |

| • |     | facilitate communications between employees, stockholders and others with the independent directors; |

| • |     | be available for consultation and direct communication with major stockholders if requested; and |

| • |     | monitor and evaluate, along with the members of the Compensation & Human Capital Committee and the other independent directors, the performance of the Chief Executive Officer. |

| 26 |     | Church & Dwight Co.  | 2025 Proxy Statement |

| CORPORATE GOVERNANCE |

Following Mr. Saligram’s appointment as our independent Board Chairman, he will continue to have these responsibilities and obligations. We believe that the presence of a Lead Director, when the role of chairman and CEO are combined, or when the Chairman is otherwise not independent, enhances the ability of our Board of Directors to provide additional independent oversight and supplements the following corporate governance practices, which also facilitate independent oversight:

| • |     | All of our directors, other than our Chairman, President and CEO, are independent. |

| • |     | All of the members of the Audit Committee, Compensation & Human Capital Committee, and Governance, Nominating & Corporate Responsibility Committee are independent. |

| • |     | Our Board of Directors and each of its standing committees meet in regularly scheduled executive sessions without the presence of management. |

| • |     | Our Board of Directors completes an annual assessment of the effectiveness of the full Board of Directors, each of its standing committees, and individual directors. |

COMMUNICATION WITH THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Our Lead Director acts as a contact person to facilitate communications between employees, stockholders and others with the independent directors. The Lead Director is responsible for ensuring that stockholder requests, recommendations