Company: NSA-PB
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-015431
Chunk: 4

Company: National Storage Affiliates Trust
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 4
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 submitted proxies will be voted by the persons named therein as proxy holders FOR the election of Messrs. Nordhagen, Cramer, Allan, Hylbert, Meisinger, Osgood, Palazzo, Schall, and Wu and Mss. Fischer and Cohn as trustees, unless otherwise instructed. If the candidacy of any trustee nominee should, for any reason, be withdrawn prior to the Annual Meeting, the proxies will be voted by the proxy holders in favor of such substituted candidates (if any) as shall be nominated by our Board. Our Board has no reason to believe that, if elected, any of the nominees will be unable or unwilling to serve as a trustee.

| NATIONAL STORAGE AFFILIATES 2025 PROXY STATEMENT |     | 12 |

#### IDENTIFICATION OF TRUSTEE CANDIDATES
In accordance with our Corporate Governance Guidelines ("Guidelines") and the CNCG Committee's written charter, the CNCG Committee is responsible for identifying and recommending trustee candidates to our Board for consideration as nominees to stand for election at our annual meetings of shareholders. In this regard, the CNCG Committee considers the importance of Board refreshment in order to maintain an appropriate balance between the knowledge and perspective that longer-tenured trustees can provide and the experience, ideas, and energy that can come from adding new trustees. As a result of our Board refreshment efforts, the average tenure of our trustee nominees is 5.8 years.

The CNCG Committee evaluates the skill sets required for service on our Board and periodically identifies potential trustee candidates. If it is determined there is the need for additional or replacement trustees, the CNCG Committee will assess potential trustee candidates previously identified as well as other appropriate potential trustee candidates based upon information it receives regarding such potential candidates or otherwise possesses, which assessment may be supplemented by additional inquiries. The CNCG Committee also evaluates, among other things, each potential trustee's knowledge of and experience in or with the self storage sector, REITs and other real estate investment and management businesses, private equity and other investments, finance, capital markets and mergers and acquisitions, technology and cybersecurity, digital marketing, public company or board experience, business strategy and operations, legal matters, compliance and regulatory matters, enterprise risk management, and corporate responsibility and sustainability matters. The CNCG Committee may seek input on such trustee candidates from other trustees, including our executive chairperson, vice chairperson and our president and CEO, and recommends trustee candidates to our Board for nomination.

The CNCG Committee does not solicit trustee nominations