Company: HLX
Filing Date: 2025-04-02
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-011655
Chunk: 24

Company: HELIX ENERGY SOLUTIONS GROUP INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-02
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 24
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 Diversity The Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee has established certain criteria with respect to the desired skills and experience for prospective Board members, including those candidates recommended by the committee and those properly nominated by shareholders. The Board, with the assistance of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee, selects potential new Board members using criteria and priorities established from time to time. Desired personal qualifications for director nominees include industry knowledge, intelligence, insight, practical wisdom based on experience, the highest professional and personal ethics and values, leadership skills, integrity, strength of character and commitment. Nominees should also have broad experience at the policy-making level in business and possess a familiarity with complex business organizations and one or more of our business lines or those of our customers. Nominees should have the independence necessary to make an unbiased evaluation of management performance (including with respect to Compensation Committee responsibilities) and effectively carry out their oversight responsibilities, and be committed to enhancing shareholder value. Nominees should have sufficient time to carry out their duties. Service on other boards of public companies should be limited to a number that permits nominees, given their individual circumstances, to perform responsibly all director duties to Helix and our shareholders. Specifically, in accordance with our Corporate Governance Guidelines, our directors may not serve on the boards of more than three public companies other than Helix or, if the director is the Chief Executive Officer of Helix or the equivalent of another public company, on the boards of more than one public company other than Helix. Each director must represent the interests of our shareholders. The Board defines diversity expansively and has determined that it is desirable to have diverse viewpoints, professional experiences, backgrounds (including gender, race, ethnicity and educational backgrounds) and skills, with the principal qualification of a director being the ability to act effectively on behalf of Helix’s shareholders. In accordance with our Corporate Governance Guidelines, in order to promote Board diversity, any initial list of director candidates developed by the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee to fill any vacancy in Board membership should include one or more qualified candidates who are diverse in either gender, race and/or ethnicity, and any third-party consultant engaged by or on behalf of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee to assist in developing any such initial list shall be requested to include one or more of such candidates.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Corporate Governance Identifying and Evaluating Nominees for Directors The Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee utilizes a