Company: RNST
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0000715072-25-000057
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Company: RENASANT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: PRE 14A
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-based compensation is provided below under the heading “2024 Compensation Decisions.”

#### Say-on-Pay and Shareholder Engagement
When setting compensation policy and structuring the compensation of our NEOs and other senior executives, the compensation committee solicits and values the viewpoints of shareholders and other stakeholders. At our 2024 annual meeting, our say-on-pay vote received 96.7% support from our shareholders. The compensation committee considers this vote to be an endorsement of our compensation program, including our balance between cash and equity and between performance-based and fixed compensation.

In late 2023 and early 2024, Albert J. Dale, III, the chair of the board’s compensation committee, as well as representatives of executive management and our investor relations team met with some of our top institutional and other large shareholders (representing approximately 29% of our then-outstanding shares) to solicit their views on our compensation program, among other practices. For a discussion of the feedback we received related to our executive compensation program, please see the Compensation Discussion & Analysis section of the proxy statement for our 2024 annual meeting. Our 2024 executive compensation program and this CD&A remain responsive to this feedback.

As discussed in more detail below in the Proposals section under the heading “Proposal 4 - Advisory Vote on Executive Compensation,” we are asking shareholders to adopt, in a non-binding advisory vote, a resolution approving the compensation paid to our named executives in 2024.

#### Decision-Making Process for 2024
Management Involvement in Compensation Decisions. Our chief executive officer is expected to regularly evaluate and recommend base salary adjustments for our executive officers, other than himself. In addition, with the assistance of management, he provides data and analysis about Renasant and individual performance for use by the compensation committee. The chief executive officer is also expected to monitor our perquisites and benefits to ensure that they remain competitive and

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consistent with the goals of our compensation program. Although our NEOs frequently attend meetings at the request of the compensation committee, a portion of each of the committee’s meetings held to determine 2024 compensation levels was in executive session without management present.

Executive Compensation Adviser. In connection with the compensation committee’s 2024 compensation decisions, Meridian Compensation Advisors, LLC (“Meridian”) (1) advised the committee with respect to the composition of our peer group; (2) compiled survey data about the compensation levels and components of compensation available for executives at our peers, and (3