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

Company: Bank of New York Mellon Corp
Filing Date: 2025-03-05
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 25
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 company overall. The Board nominated Ms. Russak-Aminoach for election to the Board, and she was elected as a director, at the 2024 Annual Meeting. Following the addition of Ms. Russak-Aminoach to the Board, the CGNSR Committee continued it regular review and assessment of the composition of the Board and its committees. Mr. Vince was regularly consulted and engaged with the CGNSR Committee in connection with such review and discussion.The CGNSR Committee evaluates all candidates suggested by other directors or third-party search firms (which the company retains from time to time to help identify potential candidates) or recommended by a stockholder for nomination as a director in the same manner. For information on communicating with the Board, see “Contacting the Board” on page 43.Re-nominations of Incumbent DirectorsIn considering whether to re-nominate a director for election at our Annual Meeting, the Board and the CGNSR Committee reviewed, among other factors:•Thecriteria for the nomination of directorsdescribed above,•Attendance and preparednessfor Board and committee meetings,•A director’soverall contributions to the Board, and•Theneeds of the company.To facilitate the assessment of an incumbent director’s suitability for re-nomination, the CGNSR Committee may leverage feedback from the annual Board and committee evaluations and its review of the director’s outside board and other affiliations (to assess the presence of actual or perceived conflicts of interest as well as time commitments generally). Our Corporate Governance Guidelines direct the CGNSR Committee to consider, among other factors, the number of other public company boards on which a director serves as part of this review. It is the Board’s policy that a director who serves as an executive officer of a publicly traded company should not serve on the board of more than two publicly traded companies (including his or her own company) in addition to his or her service on the BNY Board. Directors who do not serve as public company executive officers should not serve on the board of more than three publicly traded companies in addition to BNY. The CGNSR Committee reviews compliance on an annual basis, and all of the incumbent directors comply with this policy.In furtherance of the CGNSR Committee’s review of directors’ outside activities, our Corporate Governance Guidelines specifically outline a director’s obligation to inform the Board prior to accepting any position or otherwise changing his or her outside commitments in a significant manner, including by accepting a role on the board of another company. A director is prohibited from accepting such