Company: BK-PK
Filing Date: 2025-03-05
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-046216
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Company: Bank of New York Mellon Corp
Filing Date: 2025-03-05
Form: DEF 14A
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 director’s election than are cast “against” the director’s election. Abstentions and broker non-votes are not counted as a vote cast either “for” or “against” the director’s election and therefore have no effect on voting outcomes. Pursuant to our Corporate Governance Guidelines, if any incumbent director fails to receive a majority of the votes cast, the director will be required to tender his or her resignation promptly after the certification of the stockholder vote. The CGNSR Committee will promptly consider the tendered resignation and recommend to the Board whether to accept or reject it, or whether other actions should be taken. More information on our voting standard and the CGNSR Committee’s consideration of tendered resignations is provided on page 19.We are unaware of any reason that a nominee named in this proxy statement would be unable to serve as a director if elected. If any nominee is unable to serve, the shares represented by all valid proxies will be voted for the election of such other person as may be nominated in accordance with our by-laws, as described on page 19. Proxies cannot be voted for a greater number of persons than the number of nominees named in this proxy statement.BNY 2025 PROXY STATEMENT 11

## ITEM 1. ELECTION OF DIRECTORSNomineesLinda Z. CookAge:66Independent Director since 2016CEO of Harbour Energy plcRetired Executive Committee Member and Director of Royal Dutch Shell plcCommittees:Audit (Chair); Corporate Governance, Nominating and Social ResponsibilityOther Current Public Company Board Service:Harbour Energy plc (LSE)Ms. Cook serves as the CEO and a member of the Board of Harbour Energy plc, a global independent oil and gas company, since April 2021. She is also a Senior Advisor to EIG Global Energy Partners, an investment firm focused on the global energy industry. Ms. Cook joined EIG in 2014, and most recently served as Partner, Managing Director and a member of EIG’s Executive Committee. Prior to joining EIG, Ms. Cook spent over 29 years with Royal Dutch Shell at various companies in the U.S., the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Canada. At her retirement from Royal Dutch Shell, Ms. Cook was a member of the Executive Committee in the Netherlands headquarters and a member of the Board of Directors. Her primary executive responsibility was Shell’s global upstream Natural Gas business in addition to oversight for Shell’s global trading business, Shell Renewable Energy, and Shell’s Downstream R