Company: AVNT
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001122976-25-000019
Chunk: 27

Company: AVIENT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 27
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 Governance Guidelines contain a policy relating to majority voting. Pursuant to the policy, any nominee for election as a Director of the Board who receives a greater number of votes “withheld” from his or her election than votes “for” his or her election in an election of Directors that is not a contested election is expected to tender his or her resignation as a Director to the Board promptly following the certification of the election results. Neither abstentions nor broker non-votes will be deemed to be votes for or withheld from a Director’s election for purposes of the policy. The Governance and Corporate Responsibility Committee (without the participation of the affected Director) will consider each resignation tendered under the policy and recommend to the Board whether to accept or reject it. The Board will then take appropriate action on each tendered resignation, taking into account the Governance and Corporate Responsibility Committee’s recommendation. The Governance and Corporate Responsibility Committee, in making its recommendation, and the Board, in making its decision, may consider any factors or other information that it considers appropriate, including, without limitation, the reasons (if any) given by shareholders as to why they withheld their votes, the qualifications of the tendering Director and his or her contributions to the Board and to Avient, and the results of the most recent evaluation of the tendering Director’s performance by the other members of the Board. The Board will promptly disclose its decision whether to accept or reject the Director’s tendered resignation and, if applicable, the reasons for rejecting the tendered resignation.

Board Oversight of Risk

Our Board oversees a Company-wide approach to risk management that is designed to support the achievement of our strategic objectives and improve long-term organizational performance, which we believe will enhance shareholder value. The Board believes that risk management is not only understanding the risks we face and what steps management is taking to manage those risks, but also understanding what level of risk is appropriate for Avient overall.

Our Board administers its risk oversight function directly and through its committees. The Board has delegated specific risk oversight responsibility to the committees of the Board. Under its Charter, the Audit Committee has oversight of the Company’s risk management processes, including risk oversight related to cybersecurity and data protection. The Audit Committee is responsible for discussing with management our major financial risk exposures and the steps management has taken to monitor and control such exposures, including our risk

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assessment and risk management policies. The Audit Committee also reviews