Company: DRH-PA
Filing Date: 2025-03-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001298946-25-000038
Chunk: 82

Company: DiamondRock Hospitality Co
Filing Date: 2025-03-17
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 82
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 Report

The undersigned members of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of DiamondRock Hospitality Company (or DiamondRock) submit this report in connection with the Audit Committee’s review of the financial reports for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024. We note that we have oversight responsibilities only and that we are not acting as experts in accounting and auditing. We rely without independent verification on the information provided to us and on the representations made by management and the independent auditors. Accordingly, our oversight does not provide an independent basis to determine that DiamondRock’s consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States or that the audit of DiamondRock’s consolidated financial statements by independent auditors has been carried out in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States. Management has the primary responsibility for the preparation, presentation and integrity of DiamondRock’s 2024 consolidated financial statements and the overall reporting process, including the systems of internal control, and has represented to us that DiamondRock’s 2024 consolidated financial statements were prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States. The independent registered public accounting firm is responsible for auditing our financial statements. We:

(1) have reviewed and discussed with management and KPMG LLP the audited financial statements for DiamondRock for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024;

(2) have discussed with representatives of KPMG LLP the matters required to be discussed with them under the applicable requirements of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and the Securities and Exchange Commission; and

(3) have received the written disclosures and the letter from the independent auditors required by the applicable requirements of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board regarding the independent accountant’s communications with the Audit Committee concerning independence and have discussed with KPMG LLP the auditors’ independence from DiamondRock and management.

In reliance on the reviews and discussions referred to above, we recommended to the Board of Directors that the audited financial statements be included in DiamondRock’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 for filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Submitted by the Audit Committee

William J. Shaw, Chair

Timothy R. Chi

Michael A. Hartmeier

Stephanie D. Lepori

Kathleen A. Merrill

Bruce D. Wardinski

Tabassum S. Zalotrawala

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