Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-08-12
Form Type: S-1
Source: 0001193125-25-178989
Chunk: 246

Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-12
Form: S-1
Chunk 246
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 | establishing procedures for, reviewing, and overseeing our investigation of reported concerns related to accounting, internal controls, and internal or financial auditing matters and the anonymous submission by employees of concerns regarding questionable accounting or auditing matters; and |

| • |     | reviewing, and if appropriate, approving related-party transactions. |

Compensation committee The members of our compensation committee are Rajeev Date (chair), Bradley Horowitz, David Orfao, and Danita Ostling. Each member of this committee is a non-employee director, as defined by Rule 16b-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act, and meets the requirements for independence under the NYSE listing standards and SEC rules and regulations. Our compensation committee is responsible for, among other things:

| • |     | reviewing and approving the compensation of our executive officers (other than our chief executive officer for whom the compensation committee reviews and recommends said compensation to the board of directors); |

| • |     | reviewing, approving, and administering our incentive compensation plans; |

| • |     | evaluating and recommending to our board of directors the compensation of our directors; |

| • |     | reviewing our overall compensation philosophy; |

| • |     | reviewing and discussing with management compensation-related risks; and |

| • |     | overseeing practices and strategies relating to human capital management. |

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Nominating and corporate governance committee The members of our nominating and corporate governance committee are M. Michele Burns (chair), Rajeev Date, and P. Sean Neville. Each member of our nominating and corporate governance committee is an independent director under the NYSE listing standards. Our nominating and corporate governance committee is responsible for, among other things:

| • |     | identifying and recommending candidates for membership on our board of directors; |

| • |     | reviewing and overseeing compliance with our corporate governance guidelines and code of business conduct and ethics and reviewing proposed waivers of our code of business conduct and ethics for directors and executive officers; |

| • |     | overseeing our corporate governance practices, including our corporate governance framework and corporate social responsibility practices; and |

| • |     | overseeing the process of evaluating the performance of our board of directors. |

Risk committee The members of our risk committee are Craig Broderick (chair), Bradley Horowitz, P. Sean Neville, David Orfao, and Danita Ostling. Our risk committee is responsible for, among other things:

| • |     | overseeing our approach to enterprise risk management and related policies, practices, and guidelines