Company: BK-PK
Filing Date: 2025-03-05
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-046216
Chunk: 34

Company: Bank of New York Mellon Corp
Filing Date: 2025-03-05
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 34
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 or services during the last three years from an entity for which a director served as an executive or was otherwise employed in 2024.BNY 2025 PROXY STATEMENT 31

## ITEM 1. ELECTION OF DIRECTORSCorporate Governance and Board Information•Sales of goods or services in the ordinary course of business.The company and its subsidiaries provided various financial services during the last three years—including asset servicing, corporate trust, depositary receipts, treasury, or credit services—to certain entities for which each of Ms. Cook, Mr. Echevarria, Ms. Gilliland, or Mr. Goldstein served as an executive officer or was otherwise employed for a period in 2024. All of the services were provided in the ordinary course of our business and at prevailing customer rates and terms. For each of the last three years, the amount of fees paid to us by each purchaser in each case fell substantially below the 2% threshold of the purchaser’s annual revenue for its last reported fiscal year and of our annual revenue for 2024.•Customer relationships.Neither we nor our subsidiaries provided any ordinary course services, such as asset management services or banking services, to any independent director in 2024.•Charitable contributions.We made (directly, through our subsidiaries or by foundations sponsored by us) charitable contributions to not-for-profit, charitable or tax-exempt organizations for which Ms. Gilliland or Mr. Izzo served as a director, executive officer or trustee (or for which a family member served as an executive officer) during 2024. In 2024, charitable contributions to these organizations did not exceed the thresholds set out in the corporate governance rules of the NYSE and the SEC and our Corporate Governance Guidelines.•Beneficial ownership or voting power.In the ordinary course of our investment management business, we beneficially own or have the power to vote (directly or through our subsidiaries or through funds advised by our subsidiaries) shares of certain entities for which each of Ms. Gilliland and Mr. Gowrappan, respectively, served as an executive or was otherwise employed in 2024. As of December 31, 2024, we, our subsidiaries or funds advised by our subsidiaries, in the aggregate, owned or had the power to vote less than 1% of the outstanding shares of any such entity.Our Board, on the basis of the analysis and recommendations conducted by the CGNSR Committee, determined that none of the transactions, relationships or arrangements described above constituted a material relationship between the respective