Company: DRH-PA
Filing Date: 2025-03-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001298946-25-000038
Chunk: 35

Company: DiamondRock Hospitality Co
Filing Date: 2025-03-17
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 35
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 95,000 |                      |
| Kathleen A. Merrill                                                
 (Director)                                                         |     |               | 95,000 |     |       — |                                                 |     |  95,000 |                      |
| William J. Shaw                                                    
 (Director and Audit Committee Chair)                               |     |               | 95,000 |     |  15,000 |                                                 |     | 110,000 |                      |
| Tabassum S. Zalotrawala                                            
 (Director)                                                         |     |               | 95,000 |     |       — |                                                 |     |  95,000 |                      |

(1) The additional annual retainer for our Lead Director is $25,000 and the additional annual retainer for our Compensation Committee Chair is $15,000. Mr. Wardinski received a one-time additional cash payment of $35,000 in connection with the additional work he performed as the chair of the special committee formed to address the executive transition.

#### Equity Compensation
As part of their regular annual compensation, each of our non-employee directors receives a grant of fully-vested shares of common stock each year. The non-employee directors may elect to defer the receipt of the annual stock award. Those non-employee directors who elect to defer such awards will instead be granted an award of deferred stock units that will be settled in shares of common stock in a lump sum six months after the director ceases to be a member of our Board of Directors.

#### DiamondRock Hospitality312025 Proxy Statement
| Director Compensation |

On May 7, 2024, we issued (i) 12,615 shares of common stock to each of those directors electing to receive the equity award and (ii) 12,615 deferred stock units to each of those directors electing to defer the equity award, both of which had a value of $110,000, based on the closing stock price for our common stock on that date. Ms. Zalotrawala elected to defer the receipt of this unrestricted stock award.

#### Expenses and Perquisites
We reimburse our directors for their reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred in attending meetings of our Board of Directors or its committees or attending continuing professional education classes.

In addition, each of the members of our Board of Directors is entitled to reimbursement for up to $15,000 per annum of lodging, meals, parking and certain other expenses at all of our hotels as well as at other hotels and resorts. The purpose of this policy is to