Company: BK-PK
Filing Date: 2025-03-05
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-046216
Chunk: 22

Company: Bank of New York Mellon Corp
Filing Date: 2025-03-05
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 22
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 balanced slate of nominees, including six directors who have been added to the Board in the last five years (one of whom was first elected to the Board in 2024). Each of these directors adds significant experience and expertise to our Board, complementing and supplementing the experience, range of perspectives, and skills of our Board as a whole. Although the CGNSR Committee is principally involved in Board succession and recruitment, our full Board plays a role in recruiting, interviewing and assessing candidates. Our Board’s succession planning is an ongoing, robust endeavor and will continue to focus on enhancing the range of perspectives and experience on our Board.22 BNY 2025 PROXY STATEMENT

## ITEM 1. ELECTION OF DIRECTORSCorporate Governance and Board InformationBeyond the Board’s comprehensive meeting schedule and management and director succession planning initiatives, other pillars of the company’s governance framework implemented in recent years include:•Our Restated Certificate of Incorporation provides for action by written consent of stockholders representing at least the minimum number of votes that would be necessary to take the action at a meeting. This written consent right complements the existing provisions of our by-laws that permit holders in the aggregate of 20% of our outstanding common stock to call a special stockholder meeting.•Our Corporate Governance Guidelines provide for either an independent Chair or a Lead Director based on the best interests of the company, with the independent directors evaluating the Board’s leadership structure on an annual basis.•Our policies related to trading in company securities by executive officers and directors specifically prohibit pledging company securities (in addition to the prohibition on hedging company securities).•As part of ongoing efforts to support Board and individual director effectiveness and performance, we have developed a comprehensive orientation program, which is overseen by the CGNSR Committee. The orientation process for a new director is tailored to the specific needs of the director and is designed to facilitate and expand a new director’s understanding of our businesses, the director’s duties as a member of the Board, and the culture of our company and the Board.•We have further enhanced our robust continuing director education program. On an ongoing and regular basis, directors are provided with a curated catalogue of continuing education programs covering a range of topics delivered through external providers. In addition, education sessions led by members of senior management or external advisors are made available to the directors on an in-boardroom basis, either as standalone sessions between formal meeting dates or as part of an informal breakfast or lunch topic in connection with regular Board meetings.•As part of its