Company: DRH-PA
Filing Date: 2025-03-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001298946-25-000038
Chunk: 16

Company: DiamondRock Hospitality Co
Filing Date: 2025-03-17
Form: DEF 14A
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 members of our Board of Directors, as well as each of our committees, meet regularly without the presence of management; and

• No member of our Board of Directors serves on the boards of more than two public companies other than the Company.

#### Stockholder Rights
• Our Bylaws may be amended by both directors and stockholders by simple majority vote;

• Our Bylaws include proxy access provisions which allow a stockholder or a group of stockholders who meet certain requirements to include director nominees in our proxy materials for our annual meeting; and

• Our Articles of Amendment and Restatement, as amended (our “Charter”), contain majority voting requirements, and not supermajority voting requirements, to approve amendments to our Charter and certain extraordinary actions, such as a merger or other business combination.

#### Change of Control
• We do not have a stockholder rights plan (i.e., “poison pill”); and

• We have opted out of the Maryland business combination and control share acquisition statutes and we may only opt back into such statutes with the affirmative vote of a majority of votes cast by stockholders entitled to vote generally for directors and the affirmative vote of a majority of continuing directors, meaning the directors whose nomination for election by the stockholders or whose election by the directors to fill vacancies is approved by a majority of continuing directors then serving as directors of the Company.

#### Stock Ownership Policies
• To further align the interests of directors and officers with those of long-term stockholders:

• Each non-executive member of our Board of Directors is required to own stock of the Company with a value of five times his or her annual cash retainer for Board membership (excluding additional retainers for serving as non-executive Chairman, Lead Director or as a Committee Chair); and

• Our Chief Executive Officer and the other executive officers are required to own stock of the Company with a value of six or three times his or her base salary, respectively.

#### DiamondRock Hospitality182025 Proxy Statement
| Corporate Governance Principles and Board Matters |

#### Insider Trading Policy
• We have adoptedan insider trading policy governing the purchase, sale and other dispositions of the Company's securities that applies to all of our directors, officers, employees and other covered persons. We believe that our insider trading policy is reasonably designed to promote compliance with insider trading laws, rules and regulations, and listing standards applicable to the Company. A copy of the insider trading policy is filed as Exhibit 19 to our Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024.