Company: WCC
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-065641
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Company: WESCO INTERNATIONAL INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: PRE 14A
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 a collaborative approach with our stockholders and value the variety of perspectives that we hear in our discussions with them.

#### Wesco2025 Proxy StatementCorporate Governance18Board’s Role in Oversight of Risk ManagementManagement is responsible for risk management, and the Board’s role is to oversee management’s efforts in this area. As part of their regular meetings and deliberations, the Board and its Committees review and discuss matters of significance regarding operational, financial and other risks that are relevant to the Company’s business. Strategic risks and operating risks are monitored by the Board through discussions regarding the Company’s strategic and operating plans and regular reviews of the Company’s operating performance. Certain topics, including succession planning and mergers and acquisitions, are of such importance that they are reviewed for the full Board and not delegated to a specific committee. In addition, management assesses the Company’s enterprise risk and reviews with the entire Board significant risks and associated mitigating factors on an annual basis.Our Board has tasked designated standing committees with oversight of certain categories of risk management. The risk oversight focus areas of the committees are:The Audit Committee, which is composed 100% of independent members, discusses and reviews guidelines and policies with respect to risk assessment and risk management and discusses with management the Company’s major financial risk exposures

#### Wesco2025 Proxy StatementCorporate Governance19and the steps management takes to monitor and control such exposures. The Audit Committee is also responsible for oversight of cybersecurity risk. The Compensation Committee, which is composed 100% of independent members, reviews the potential for risk related to the Company’s compensation arrangements, including compensation arrangements and policies for executives, and determines whether any such arrangements are likely to encourage excessive or inappropriate risk taking. The Nominating and Governance Committee, which is composed 100% of independent members, is responsible for oversight of significant environmental, social and governance matters that are relevant to the Company.To more effectively prevent, detect and respond to information security threats, the Company has a dedicated Chief Information Security Officer (“CISO”) whose team is responsible for leading enterprise-wide information security strategy, policy, standards, architecture and processes. The CISO reports to our Executive Vice President, Chief Information and Digital Officer (“CIDO”), who reports directly to our Chief Executive Officer. The CISO and CIDO regularly review cybersecurity matters with our Chief Executive Officer and other members of our senior management, including cybersecurity risks and threats and the status of our cybersecurity incident response plan and related processes relating to the prevention, detection, mitigation and remediation of cybersecurity incidents. As part of its oversight responsibility of cybersecurity