Company: TJX
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000109198-25-000024
Chunk: 18

Company: TJX COMPANIES INC /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 18
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, the CEO, the Executive Chairman, and other executive leaders |

Our Board has separated the role of CEO and Chairman. As the Board prefers to maintain the flexibility to determine the leadership structure that serves the best interests of the Company and our shareholders, we do not have a formal policy on separation of the CEO and Chairman roles and review our leadership structure on an annual basis. Carol Meyrowitz has served as Chairman of the Board since June 2015 and as Executive Chairman since the beginning of fiscal 2017 when Ernie Herrman succeeded her as Chief Executive Officer. Ms. Meyrowitz has wide-ranging, in-depth knowledge of our business arising from her many years of service to TJX. As Executive Chairman, she has provided, and is expected to continue to provide, effective leadership to the Board and, in her role as an executive officer of the Company, advice and industry expertise and support for management.

As provided in our Corporate Governance Principles, because our current Chairman is not independent, our independent directors have elected an independent Lead Director, Alan Bennett, to serve as a liaison between the independent directors, the Executive Chairman, and management. The Board believes that the separate roles of Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and Lead Director best serve the current needs and are in the best interest of TJX’s business and shareholders.

### LEAD DIRECTOR ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The duties of our Lead Director include:

• Meeting at least quarterly with our Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman

• Meeting with other executives and senior leadership as necessary

• Approving Board meeting schedules and agendas

• Scheduling meetings and setting agendas for discussions of the independent directors

• Presiding at meeting sessions of the independent directors

• Presiding at meetings of the Board in the absence of the Executive Chairman, including Executive Sessions of the independent directors

• Maintaining authority to call meetings and Executive Sessions of the independent directors

• After each scheduled Board meeting, communicating with the Executive Chairman and CEO to provide feedback and recommendations of the independent directors

• Coordinating with the Executive Chairman and CEO to select presentation topics and outside advisors for Board meetings

• Attending the meetings of each Board Committee

• Regularly serving as a liaison between independent directors and executive management, including when special circumstances arise

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#### Corporate Governance
• Coordinating with and supporting Committee Chairs, including through additional meetings and monitoring flow of information from Committee Chairs to the full Board

• Staying informed about shareholder inquiries and engagement

• Being advised promptly