Company: RNST
Filing Date: 2025-03-12
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000715072-25-000085
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Company: RENASANT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-12
Form: DEF 14A
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 Investor Relations and Mergers/Acquisitions for South State Corporation, beginning in August 2015. Prior to that role, Mr. Mabry served as a managing director of Keefe, Bruyette and Woods, a Stifel Company, leading mergers and acquisitions, strategic advisory and capital markets services for financial institutions.             |
| David L. Meredith |     |  58 |     | Our Executive Vice President since January 2018; he has also served as the Bank’s Chief Credit Officer over the same period. From August 2015 until January 2018, Mr. Meredith served as Senior Executive Vice President and Co-Chief Credit Officer of the Bank. From October 2013 until August 2015, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Credit Officer for the Eastern Division of the Bank. Mr. Meredith was Executive Vice President and Senior Credit Officer from January 2010 until October 2013.                                                                                              |
| Curtis J. Perry   |     |  62 |     | Our Executive Vice President and the Bank’s Chief Corporate Banking Officer since June 2019. Prior to joining Renasant, Mr. Perry worked in a similar role at Synovus Bank since 2009.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |

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| COMPENSATION DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS |

#### Introduction
This Compensation Discussion and Analysis section, or CD&A, describes our executive compensation program for 2024, which is administered by our compensation committee. As more fully explained in this section, in 2024 our program consisted of four components: base salary, annual performance-based cash awards, performance-based equity awards and time-based equity awards.

Named Executive Officers. For 2024, Renasant’s named executive officers (referred to interchangeably as our “named executives” or our “NEOs”) whose compensation was determined under our program were:

| Named Executive       |     | Title                                               |
| E. Robinson McGraw    |     | Executive Chairman                                  |
| C. Mitchell Waycaster |     | Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice Chairman |
| Kevin D. Chapman      |     | President and Chief Operating Officer               |
| James C. Mabry IV     |     | Chief Financial Officer                             |
| Curtis J. Perry       |     | Executive Vice President                            |

#### Objectives of our Compensation Program
The compensation committee has designed our compensation program to achieve three objectives:

| •To align our compensation practices with the delivery of shareholder value |     |