Company: CGABL
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001527166-25-000032
Chunk: 19

Company: Carlyle Group Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 19
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, robustdevelopment and retention practices andsupporting our people and culture. |
| Sustainability.Directors bring experience inthe areas of environmental impact, climatechange, corporate responsibility, orsustainability strategies.                                                |
| Technology and/or Cybersecurity.Directorspossess experience in the development andadoption of new technology or themanagement of information security orcybersecurity risks at companies.           |

| CARLYLE | Proxy Statement2025 | 17 |

| Corporate Governance |

Director Independence Our Board of Directors has affirmatively determined that eight of our director nominees and continuing directors satisfy the independence requirements of Nasdaq, the SEC, and our Governance Policy, including with respect to applicable committee membership. These directors are Ms. Beschloss, Ms. Cherwoo, Ms. Filler, Ms. Fitt, Mr. Ordan, Mr. Rice, Mr. Shaw, and Mr. Welters. Based on all the relevant facts and circumstances, the Board determined that the independent directors have no relationship with us that would impair their independence as it is defined in the Nasdaq rules and our Governance Policy. In reaching the Board’s determination, with respect to Ms. Beschloss, it considered her prior employment with Carlyle over two decades ago and her various philanthropic and social associations that, in certain instances, may overlap with certain other directors’ associations. With respect to Mr. Welters, it considered his various philanthropic and social associations that, in certain instances, may overlap with certain other directors’ associations. The Board determined that the above would not interfere with either of Ms. Beschloss or Mr. Welters’s independence from management and exercise of independent judgment in carrying out the responsibilities of an independent director. To assist it in making its independence determinations, the Board adheres to the following standards, which are described in our Governance Policy: Under any circumstances, a director is not independent if: • the director is, or has been within the preceding three years, employed by a Carlyle Entity. A Carlyle Entity means us and any parent or subsidiary that we control and consolidate into our financial statements, respectively, filed with the SEC, (but not if we reflect such entity solely as an investment in these financial statements); • the director, or an immediate family member of that director, accepted any compensation from a Carlyle Entity in excess of $120,000 during any period of twelve consecutive months within the three years preceding the determination of independence, other than (i) compensation for director or committee service, (ii) compensation paid to an immediate family