Company: KD
Filing Date: 2025-06-16
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-022676
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Company: Kyndryl Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-06-16
Form: DEF 14A
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ating and Governance Committee for its consideration. Stockholders must also satisfy the notification, timeliness and information requirements set forth in our Bylaws. See “Frequently Asked Questions — 18. How do I submit an item of business for the 2026 Annual Meeting?” Stockholders wishing to propose a candidate for consideration may do so by submitting the information described in this section to: Kyndryl Holdings, Inc., Attention: Corporate Secretary’s Office, One Vanderbilt Avenue, 15th Floor, New York, New York 10017. In addition, our Bylaws permit a stockholder, or a group of up to 20 stockholders, that has continuously owned for three years at least 3% of the Company’s outstanding common stock, to nominate and include in the Company’s annual meeting proxy materials up to the greater of two directors or 20% of the number of directors to be elected at the annual meeting (“Proxy Access”), provided that the stockholder(s) and the nominee(s) satisfy the requirements specified in our Bylaws, which are posted on our Investor Relations website at investors.kyndryl.com. Stockholder requests to include stockholder-nominated directors in the Company’s proxy materials for our 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders pursuant to our Proxy Access bylaw must be received by the Company no earlier than January 17, 2026 and no later than February 16, 2026. Director Attendance All directors are expected to make every effort to attend all meetings of the Board, meetings of the committees of which they are members and the Annual Meeting of Stockholders. In the Company’s 2025 fiscal year:

| • | The Board met 6 times and the committees collectively met 16 times; |

| • | Each director attended 100% of the total number of meetings of the Board and of the committees on which each such director served; |

| • | All 10 of our directors attended the Company’s 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. |

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Director Independence Under our Board Corporate Governance Guidelines and NYSE rules, a director is not independent unless our Board affirmatively determines that he or she does not have a direct or indirect material relationship with us or any of our subsidiaries. Our Board Corporate Governance Guidelines define independence in accordance with current NYSE standards for listed companies and require that our Nominating and Governance Committee and our Board review the independence of all directors at least annually.

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