Company: SYY
Filing Date: 2025-10-02
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000096021-25-000147
Chunk: 8

Company: SYSCO CORP
Filing Date: 2025-10-02
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 8
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 engages a professional search firm to assist in identifying qualified candidates and may solicit recommendations for nominees from current members of the Board and Sysco’s management. When engaging a search firm, the Governance Committee will determine its fees and scope of engagement . How We Evaluate Director Candidates In evaluating all incumbent and new director candidates that the Governance Committee determines merit consideration, the Governance Committee will: • Cause to be assembled information concerning the candidates background and qualifications, including information required to be disclosed in a Proxy Statement, and any relationship between the candidate and the person or people recommending the candidate; • Determine if the candidate demonstrates the characteristics that we require of all directors, described below; • Consider the candidate’s skills, experience and qualifications in the context of the composition of the Board as a whole and the Company’s strategic priorities; • Consider the absence or presence of material relationships with Sysco that might impact the candidate’s independence; • Consider the contribution the candidate can be expected to make to the overall functioning of the Board; • Consider the candidate’s capacity to be an effective director in light of the time required by the candidate’s primary occupation and service on other boards; • Consider, with respect to an incumbent director, whether the director satisfactorily performed his or her duties as a director during the preceding term, including attendance and participation at Board and committee meetings, and made other contributions as a director; and • Consider, values of all dimensions of diversity among nominees, differences in background, professional and life experiences yield innovation, enhanced perspective, and higher quality decision-making similar to how Sysco aspires to create a global culture of inclusion – one where every colleague, customer, supplier and partner is respected, valued, and empowered to contribute. In its discretion, the Governance Committee may designate one or more of its members, or the entire Governance Committee, to interview any proposed candidate. Based on all available information and relevant considerations, the Governance Committee will recommend to the full Board for nomination those candidates who, in the judgment of the Governance Committee, are most appropriate for membership on the Board based on each candidate’s characteristics, skills and qualifications. Director Qualifications and Board Succession The Governance Committee is responsible for reviewing with the Board, on an annual basis, the requisite characteristics, skills and qualifications that directors and director candidates should possess individually and in the broader context of the Board’s overall composition and the Company’s business and structure. This review includes consideration of skills, experience, time available and the number of other boards for which the individual serves as a director, and such other criteria as the Governance Committee determines