Company: TJX
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000109198-25-000024
Chunk: 10

Company: TJX COMPANIES INC /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 10
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 director nominees, how we assess our nominees, and how we consider overall Board composition.

|                                                                   |     | José B. Alvarez |
| Director Since:2020; previously served on Board from 2007 to 2018 
 Member:Compensation Committee and Corporate Governance Committee  |     |                 |

Experience and Qualifications:

• Clinical Professor of Business Administration, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth (2022 to current)

• Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School (2009 to 2023)

• Executive Vice President – Global Business Development, Royal Ahold N.V., now Royal Ahold Delhaize N.V. (2008)

• Various key management positions, including Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice President, Supply Chain and Logistics, Stop & Shop/Giant-Landover (2001 to 2008)

• Previously served in various executive positions at Shaw's Supermarkets and American Stores Company (1990 to 2001)

Mr. Alvarez, 62, has a long career in the retail industry, including experience as a researcher and educator on the industry, which along with his public company directorships, provide him with deep expertise in global retail chain management, including organizational leadership, store and human capital management, e-commerce, global sourcing and business operations, merchandising, marketing, and strategic planning.

Mr. Alvarez served as a director of United Rentals, Inc. from 2009 until May 2024.

|                                                                                        |     | Alan M. Bennett |
| Director Since:2007                                                                    
 Independent Lead Director                                                              
 Member:Compensation Committee, Corporate Governance Committee, and Executive Committee |     |                 |

Experience and Qualifications:

• President and Chief Executive Officer, H&R Block, Inc. (2010 to retirement in 2011)

• Interim Chief Executive Officer, H&R Block, Inc. (2007 to 2008)

• Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and a Member of the Office of the Chairman, Aetna Inc. (2001 to 2007)

• Various senior financial management positions, Aetna Inc. (1995 to 2001)

• Various senior management roles in finance and sales/marketing, Pirelli Armstrong Tire Corporation (1981 to 1995)

• Previously served in various positions at Ernst & Ernst, now Ernst & Young LLP

Mr. Bennett, 74, brings leadership and risk management experience through his senior management roles in two large, established financial businesses and public company directorships, as well as financial expertise