Company: BK-PK
Filing Date: 2025-03-05
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-046216
Chunk: 31

Company: Bank of New York Mellon Corp
Filing Date: 2025-03-05
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 31
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, strategic or business initiatives, regulatory developments, risk and resiliency, and other topics of interest to directors such as artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. Further, the agenda for Board meetings periodically feature touchpoints for the Directors to engage with employees beyond Executive Committee members in an effort to support the Board’s oversight and understanding of developments and initiatives impacting the general workforce population. Materials related to these educational sessions are maintained and catalogued for directors’ future reference (or for new directors, for use as part of the onboarding package). Directors are encouraged, including in the annual Board and committee evaluation process, to provide feedback regarding topics they would like to cover in continuing education sessions.BNY 2025 PROXY STATEMENT 29

## ITEM 1. ELECTION OF DIRECTORSCorporate Governance and Board InformationProactive Stockholder Engagement ProgramWe conduct extensive governance reviews and investor outreach throughout the year. Through our investor engagement process in 2024 and 2025, we reached out to stockholders holding over 65% of our outstanding common stock and held discussions with those that accepted our invitation. These discussions included representatives from our Investor Relations, Enterprise Sustainability, Corporate Governance and People teams and addressed topics such as business and company strategy, executive compensation, reporting on political contributions and lobbying, Enterprise Sustainability strategy and reporting, and Board-level oversight of artificial intelligence initiatives.Management reports regularly to the independent directors regarding investor discussions and feedback to keep them informed of stockholders’ perspectives on a variety of issues, including governance, strategy and performance, and to enable them to consider and address those matters effectively. Occasionally, investors may participate in meetings with individual directors on certain topics. Stockholder feedback has played a significant role in company decisions such as the design and implementation of a stockholder written consent right.Board Leadership StructureThe Board’s independent directors review the Board’s leadership structure and the selection of the Chair of the Board on an annual basis, or more frequently as necessary, to help ensure the current arrangement best serves the interests of the company at any given time. As part of this review, the independent directors evaluate whether they believe that the position of Chair should be held by the CEO, in which case an independent Lead Director would be selected, or that the Chair and CEO roles should be separated. In light of the Board’s composition, the CEO succession process, the company’s size, the nature of the company’s business, the regulatory framework under which the company operates, the company’s stockholder base, the company’s peer group and other relevant factors, the independent directors of the