Company: KD
Filing Date: 2025-06-16
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-022676
Chunk: 23

Company: Kyndryl Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-06-16
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 23
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 sense of belonging and promoting good governance practices. Kyndryl’s Corporate Citizenship strategy is aligned with our strategic business priorities and rooted in our commitment to drive success in our business, and we apply this same principle to how we approach, develop and execute our Corporate Citizenship strategy. We focus on three domains: “Environment,” including sustainability practices and programs; “People,” including support for our people and communities; and “Trust,” including ethical business practices and compliance programs. |

| BOARD OVERSIGHT OF CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP STRATEGY |

An essential aspect of executing our Corporate Citizenship strategy is the role our Board plays. Our Board has oversight of our strategy and the effective implementation of our plans. The Board established the oversight structure below to support management’s execution of our Corporate Citizenship strategy.

| OUR CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP HIGHLIGHTS |

Since our inception as a public company, we have taken meaningful steps to practice and report about corporate citizenship, both within our organization and among our stakeholders. Find more information on the Company’s website at www.kyndryl.comunder About Us: Corporate Citizenship.

| KYNDRYL2025 PROXY STATEMENT|29 |

TABLE OF CONTENTS

| Corporate Citizenship Objectives                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |     | Fiscal 2025 Highlights                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| Environment                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
 Kyndryl is dedicated to advancing sustainable business practices, enhancing operational efficiency and optimizing our supply chain. Through environmental education and awareness initiatives, we empower our stakeholders to contribute toward fulfilling our environmental objectives. We are building and providing innovative sustainability solutions to support our customers to build and meet their goals.                                                |     | •Achieved our annual emission reduction goals, aligned with our 2040 net-zero and 2030 near-term emission reduction targets, which have been validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (“SBTi”).                                  
 •Obtained global certifications for our Environmental and Energy Management System, which helps us to operationalize our environmental goals.                                                                                             
 •Exceeded our goal to educate our employees with our Kyndryl sustainability training course.                                                                                                                                              
 •Delivered sustainability services for our customers related to decarbonization and transformation.                                                                                                                                       
 •Continued to progressively apply the Responsible Business Alliance Code of Conduct to our suppliers and educated our supplier network about net-zero goals.                                                                              |
| People                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
 Our people are at the center of designing, building and managing the technology environments that the world depends on every day. We will continue to invest in our teams to be at the heart