Company: CAVA
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-019936
Chunk: 9

Company: CAVA GROUP, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 9
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 to and oversight of management.

#### CAVA Group, Inc.102025 Proxy Statement
Whenever the Chair of the Board of Directors is also the Chief Executive Officer or is a director who does not otherwise qualify as an “independent director,” the independent directors may elect from among themselves a Lead Director of the Board of Directors. Following nomination by the Nominating, Governance and Sustainability Committee, the Lead Director will be elected by a plurality vote and should generally serve in such capacity for a minimum of one year. Service as Lead Director, however, generally should not exceed five consecutive years but is subject to the Board of Directors’ discretion to set other guidelines in specific instances. The responsibilities of the Lead Director (if one has been elected) shall be determined from time to time by the Board of Directors, upon the recommendation of the Nominating, Governance and Sustainability Committee.

#### Risk Oversight
The Board of Directors exercises direct oversight of strategic risks to the Company in regular coordination with the Company’s management. While our senior executives are responsible for day-to-day risk management, our Board of Directors has overall responsibility for risk oversight, including, as part of regular Board of Directors and committee meetings, general oversight of executives’ management of short-term and long-term risks relevant to the Company. Accordingly, while the full Board of Directors has overall responsibility for risk oversight, it is supported in this function by its Audit Committee, People, Culture and Compensation Committee and Nominating, Governance and Sustainability Committee. Each of the committees regularly reports to the Board of Directors.

Our Chief Executive Officer and other executive officers will regularly report to the non-executive directors and the Audit Committee, the People, Culture and Compensation Committee and the Nominating, Governance and Sustainability Committee to ensure effective and efficient oversight of our activities and to assist in proper risk management and the ongoing evaluation of management controls.

The Audit Committee is charged with assisting the Board of Directors with respect to its oversight of the Company’s overall risk management profile and the effectiveness of the Company’s risk management processes. In particular, the Audit Committee reviews the Company’s guidelines and policies governing the process by which management assesses and manages the Company’s exposure to risk, including the Company’s major financial and operational risk exposures and the steps management takes to monitor and control such exposures, and also evaluates, in conjunction with management, the Company’s information technology security program, compliance and controls. A management-level Risk Committee meets to review enterprise risks and briefs the Audit Committee on at least a quarterly basis. The People, Culture and Compensation Committee oversees risks