Company: GHC
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-063218
Chunk: 23

Company: Graham Holdings Co
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 23
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 security and privacy groups; oversees privacy programs and cybersecurity programs including threats, defenses, response capabilities and company-wide metrics relating to information security controls; oversees the Code of Business Conduct; addresses material conflicts of interests; and provides escalation of risks to the full Board. Risk oversight activities are supported by internal reporting structures that aim to surface directly to the Board key matters that can affect the Company’s risk exposures. For example, the head of the Company’s internal audit function reports directly to the Audit Committee. The Company has also established a management-level Kaplan Compliance Committee that reports periodically to the Audit Committee about regulatory risks affecting the Company’s education businesses, as well as a Disclosure Controls Committee, chaired by the General Counsel, that reports directly to the Audit Committee on certain matters relating to the Company’s public disclosures.

Communicating with Directors

Interested parties may communicate concerns to the Lead Independent Director or to the other Directors of the Company through NAVEX Global, the Company’s third-party-managed hotline, via telephone at 1-866-687-8972 or online at ghco.ethicspoint.com.**

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STOCK HOLDINGS OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT The information in the following two tables relates to each person who, on February 1, 2025, was a “beneficial owner” (as defined under the proxy rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission) of more than 5% of the Company’s Class A or Class B Stock and to the stock holdings of Directors and officers. Under the proxy rules, a person is deemed to be the “beneficial owner” of stock if such person has (or shares) either investment power or voting power over such stock or has (or shares) the right to acquire such stock within 60 days by any of a number of means, including the conversion of another security that is convertible into such stock. A substantial number of shares of the Company’s Class A and Class B Common Stock are held in trusts or subject to other agreements that provide for the sharing of investment power, voting power or both among several persons, each of whom is deemed by the Securities and Exchange Commission to be a “beneficial owner” of the shares so held. Furthermore, in many cases, such persons do not include the beneficiary of the trust who, although not deemed to be a “beneficial owner” in the absence of voting or investment power over the shares, is nevertheless shown below as a “beneficial owner” because of the beneficiary’s economic interest in the shares