Company: NSA-PB
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-015431
Chunk: 3

Company: National Storage Affiliates Trust
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 3
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, CEO and one of our trustees and a trustee nominee for re-election, and Mr. Nordhagen, our vice chairperson of the Board and a trustee nominee for re-election. Messrs. Nordhagen and Cramer are brothers-in-law. See "–How We Govern and Are Governed–Trustee Independence."

Our Board recommends a vote FOR the election of Messrs. Nordhagen, Cramer, Allan, Hylbert, Meisinger, Osgood, Palazzo, Schall, and Wu and Mss. Fischer and Cohn as trustees.

#### HOW WE ARE SELECTED, ELECTED AND EVALUATED

#### SIZE OF BOARD; CURRENT NOMINEES
Our Board is currently comprised of twelve trustees. Rebecca L. Steinfort, one of our current trustees, has decided to not stand for re-election to the Board at the Annual Meeting. Accordingly, our Board has nominated our remaining current trustees for re-election and, upon recommendation from the CNCG Committee, will decrease the size of our Board from twelve trustees to eleven trustees, effective as of the date of the Annual Meeting. As a result, the trustee nominees standing for re-election at the Annual Meeting are listed below.

| Tamara D. Fischer    |     | Chad L. Meisinger  |
| Arlen D. Nordhagen   |     | Steven G. Osgood   |
| David G. Cramer      |     | Dominic M. Palazzo |
| Warren W. Allan      |     | Michael J. Schall  |
| Lisa R. Cohn         |     | Charles F. Wu      |
| Paul W. Hylbert, Jr. |     |                    |

Each trustee elected will hold office until our next annual meeting of shareholders and until a successor has been duly elected and qualifies, or until the trustee's earlier resignation, death or removal.

#### INCLUSIVE TRUSTEE SELECTION PRACTICES
We seek highly qualified trustee candidates from diverse business, professional and educational backgrounds who combine a broad spectrum of experience, skills, and expertise with a reputation for the highest personal and professional ethics, integrity and values.

The procedures and considerations of the CNCG Committee in recommending qualified trustee candidates are described below under "–Identification of Trustee Candidates." The CNCG Committee and our Board concluded that each of our trustee nominees should be nominated for election based on the qualifications and experience described in their biographical information.

It is intended that our common shares of beneficial interest (the "Common Shares") represented by properly