Company: DRH-PA
Filing Date: 2025-03-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001298946-25-000038
Chunk: 5

Company: DiamondRock Hospitality Co
Filing Date: 2025-03-17
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 5
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 does not receive instructions from you. The uncontested election of directors (proposal 1) and the non-binding, advisory resolution on executive compensation (proposal 2) are “non-discretionary” items. If you do not instruct your broker, bank or other nominee how to vote with respect to these items, it may not vote with respect to these proposals and those votes will be counted as “broker non-votes.” Broker non-votes are shares that are held in street name by a broker, bank or other nominee that returns a properly executed proxy but does not have discretionary authority to vote on a particular matter.

#### DiamondRock Hospitality32025 Proxy Statement
| Questions and Answers About the Annual Meeting |

#### What constitutes a quorum?
The presence, in person or by proxy, of stockholders entitled to cast a majority of all the votes entitled to be cast at the annual meeting constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business at the annual meeting. As of the Record Date, there were 208,775,305 shares of common stock outstanding and entitled to vote at the annual meeting. Abstentions or broker non-votes will be counted for purposes of determining whether a quorum is present for the transaction of business at the annual meeting. If a quorum is not present at the scheduled time of the meeting, the chairman may adjourn the meeting to another place, date or time until a quorum is present. The place, date and time of the adjourned meeting will be announced when the adjournment is taken and no other notice will be given unless the adjournment is to a date more than 120 days after the original record date or if, after the adjournment, a new record date is fixed for the adjourned meeting.

#### What is householding?
The rules of the SEC allow for householding, which is the delivery of a single copy of a Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials, notice of annual meeting, annual report, and/or proxy statement to any address shared by two or more stockholders. Duplicate mailings can be eliminated by the consent of the household stockholders, or through implied consent if (1) it is believed that the stockholders are members of the same family, (2) the stockholders are notified that householding is to be used and (3) the stockholders do not request continuation of duplicate mailings. If you own shares of common stock in your own name as a holder of record, householding will not apply to your shares. If your shares of