Company: CHEF
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001517175-25-000003
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Company: Chefs' Warehouse, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form: DEF 14A
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 by Greenhouse Funds LLLP, Greenhouse GP LLC and Joseph Milano with the SEC on February 14, 2024.

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### CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

#### Summary
We are committed to maintaining strong corporate governance practices and principles. The Board actively monitors developments relating to the corporate governance of public corporations, and the Board has consulted with our legal counsel and independent registered public accounting firm to evaluate our current corporate governance and other practices in light of these developments. We believe our policies and practices reflect corporate governance best practices and compliance with the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, SEC rules and regulations and the Listing Rules (“Nasdaq Listing Rules”) of the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”). For example:

• The Board has adopted our Corporate Governance Guidelines, which outline the roles and responsibilities of the Board and its committees and establish policies regarding governance matters such as Board meetings and communications, performance evaluations of the Board and our chief executive officer, director stock ownership guidelines, and director orientation and continuing education;

• A majority of the members of the Board are “independent directors” within the Nasdaq Listing Rules’ definition, and the Board makes an affirmative determination regarding the independence of each director annually;

• All members of the Board’s standing committees—the Audit Committee, the Compensation and Human Capital Committee (which we refer to in this Proxy Statement as the “Compensation Committee”), the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and the ESG Committee—are “independent directors” as determined by the Board and within the meaning Nasdaq Listing Rules;

• The independent members of the Board meet regularly without the presence of management;

• We have designated an independent director to serve as our “Lead Director” to coordinate the activities of the other independent members of the Board;

• We have a Code of Business Conduct and Ethics that applies to our principal executive officer and all members of our finance department, including our principal financial officer, principal accounting officer and controller;

• We have an Insider Trading Policy that is applicable to all of our employees and directors and their affiliates which, among other things, prohibits hedging of Company securities by such persons;

• The charters of the Board’s committees clearly establish their respective roles and responsibilities; and

• The Audit Committee has procedures in place for the anonymous submission of employee complaints on accounting, internal controls or auditing matters.

In addition, our Corporate Governance Guidelines limit the directors serving on our Audit Committee from serving on more than three public company audit committees without