Company: RNST
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0000715072-25-000057
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Company: RENASANT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 28
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 directors. Directors Gary Butler and Rose Flenorl were members of Renasant’s Mississippi regional board and West Tennessee regional board, respectively, prior to their election to the board of directors. Their service on these boards demonstrated that, in addition to their excellent credentials, they possessed the other qualities and skills that the nominating committee has determined a Renasant board member must possess.

To select the three FBMS directors to be appointed to our board in addition to Mr. Cole upon completion of the FBMS merger, as required pursuant to the merger agreement, our chairman of the board, our lead director and the chairman of the nominating committee interviewed members of the FBMS board of directors, who also separately met with our chief executive officer, president and certain other members of executive management. The nominating committee considered feedback from these interviews as well as other information that the nominating committee gathered about the background, experience and skills of the FBMS directors, with the goal of selecting directors who would enhance the overall operations of the board and its committees. Following these deliberations, the nominating committee recommended that, along with Mr. Cole, Jonathan A. Levy, Renee Moore and Ted E. Parker be appointed to our board upon the completion of the FBMS merger. After considering the nominating committee’s recommendation and its own deliberations, the board accepted the nominating committee’s recommendation.

The nominating committee will also consider candidates that shareholders and others recommend, and the committee uses the same criteria in assessing such candidates as it does for candidates proposed by the committee, another board member or executive management. More information about the process for shareholder recommendations may be found below under the heading “Shareholder Communications” in the paragraph titled “Process for Shareholder Recommendations of Director Nominees.”

#### Related Person Transactions
Review and Approval of Related Person Transactions. The board reviews and approves (or ratifies) material transactions involving related persons (that is, our directors and executive officers, members of their immediate families and businesses with which they are associated) to determine that the terms are substantially the same as the terms that would be expected if the transaction were with a person or entity that is not related to us or the Bank. To identify related person transactions, our directors and executive officers annually complete a Regulation O questionnaire (in the summer) and a Director and Officer Questionnaire (in December). Both questionnaires require our directors and executive officers to disclose their related persons and any transactions with us in which they or a related person has an interest. In addition, we review loan and deposit