Company: CFG-PE
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000759944-25-000044
Chunk: 18

Company: CITIZENS FINANCIAL GROUP INC/RI
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 18
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-profit entities.

#### 202025 Proxy Statement

#### Corporate Governance Matters
|                                |     | Edward J. Kelly IIILEAD INDEPENDENT DIRECTOR                            |
| Age:71                         
 Joined the Board:February 2019 |     | Board Committees:                                                       
 Compensation & HR (Chair); Nominating & Corporate Governance; Executive 
 Other Current Public Company Directorships:                             
 MetLife, Inc.                                                           
 Dollar Tree, Inc.                                                       |

Career Highlights

| 2011 to 2014 (Retirement)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| Chairman, Citigroup Inc.’s Institutional Clients Group                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| 2008 to 2011                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| Held senior positions at Citigroup including as Chairman of Global Banking (from 2010 to 2011), Chief Financial Officer (during 2009), Head of Global Banking (from 2008 to 2009), and President and Chief Executive Officer of Citi Alternative Investments (during 2008) |
| 2007 to 2008                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| Managing Director, The Carlyle Group                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| 2001 to 2007                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| Vice Chairman, PNC Financial Services Group, following PNC’s 2007 acquisition of Mercantile Bankshares Corporation, which he joined as President and Chief Executive Officer in 2001 before also being appointed Chairman in 2003.                                         |
| Prior to 2001                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| Held various positions at J.P. Morgan including managing director within the investment banking business, and General Counsel and Secretary, prior to which he was Partner at the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell                                                        |

Further Information Mr. Kelly currently serves on the board of MetLife, Inc (since 2015), and Dollar Tree, Inc. (since 2022) where he is non-executive Chairman. He previously served as Chairman of the board of directors at CSX Corporation until January 2019, and on the board of XL Catlin (from 2014 to 2018). He also serves on the board of our primary subsidiary CBNA. Mr. Kelly received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1981 and A.B. from Princeton University in 1975. Relevant Skills and Experience

| Financial Services                     |     | Corporate Governance     |
| Financial Reporting & Capital Planning |     | Compliance & Regulations |

Mr. Kelly has an extensive background in the financial services industry including serving in executive positions