Company: GDOT
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001386278-25-000020
Chunk: 35

Company: GREEN DOT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: DEF 14A
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. Mr. Shaheen received a B.S. degree in Business and M.B.A. degree from Bradley University. We believe Mr. Shaheen should serve as a member of our Board of Directors based on his extensive management experience, the perspective he brings as a Chief Executive Officer of various companies and his experience as a board member of other public companies.

There are no familial relationships among our directors and officers.

#### Director Compensation
Director Compensation Highlights

• Fees for committee service and service on the Board and committees of subsidiary bank to differentiate individual pay based on workload

• Emphasis on equity in the overall compensation mix

• Full-value equity grants under a fixed-value annual grant policy with time-based vesting

• No performance-based equity awards

• A robust stock ownership guideline set at four times the annual cash retainer to support stockholder alignment

• Stockholder approved governance limit of $750,000 on the total value of equity compensation (taken together with any cash fees paid during a calendar year for services as a director) that may be granted to a non-employee director each calendar year

• Policies prohibiting hedging and pledging by our directors

Annual and Meeting Fees . During 2024, our non-employee directors were entitled to receive the following annualized cash compensation. We pay the annual retainer fee and any additional annual fees to each director in equal quarterly installments.

• $70,000 annual cash retainer

• $30,000 annual fee for chairing our Audit Committee and $12,500 for serving as a non-chair member of our Audit Committee

• $25,000 annual fee for chairing our Compensation Committee and $10,000 for serving as a non-chair member of our Compensation Committee

• $25,000 annual fee for chairing our Risk Committee and $10,000 for serving as a non-chair member of our Risk Committee

• $20,000 annual fee for chairing our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and $7,000 for serving as a non-chair member of our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee

• $70,000 annual fee for the Chairperson of the Board

• $70,000 annual fee for Lead Independent Director (when applicable)

During 2024, we also compensated any non-employee director who served on the Board of Directors, Audit Committee, Risk Committee and as Chairperson of our subsidiary bank. The annual retainer fee for board service was $70,000, the additional annual retainer fee for Audit Committee service was $30