Company: CGABL
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001527166-25-000032
Chunk: 24

Company: Carlyle Group Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 24
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, deliver for the firm, challenge the status quo, and leverage a broad range of perspectives. We also seek to foster lateral working relationships across and beyond Carlyle while working as one team to drive long-term value creation. In addition, we strive to lead by example in driving and embracing change. We demand the highest standards of ethical dealings, and we require collaboration and cooperation among all parts of our firm. In doing so, we bring to bear the best ideas for investment excellence from all areas within our global footprint, and maximize the value of the services we provide. Our Board oversees our leadership team in its efforts to encourage and sustain our culture and values.

| CARLYLE | Proxy Statement2025 | 21 |

| Corporate Governance |

Oversight of Sustainability We strive to embed sustainability within Carlyle as part of our investment approach where we believe it will drive financial performance. Our Board ultimately oversees the firm’s approach to sustainability. The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, which takes a leadership role in shaping our corporate governance, including oversight of and approach to our sustainability strategy, has appointed Linda H. Filler as the Board’s Sustainability Lead. The Board receives updates on sustainability strategy and investment implications at least annually, and receives reports on thematic issues, such as Carlyle’s approach to climate risk and opportunity, from our Co-Heads of Sustainability. BOARD STRUCTURE AND GOVERNANCE PRACTICES Board Leadership Structure Our Board of Directors oversees our business and affairs and currently consists of 13 directors. A majority of the directors on our Board are independent. Two of our co-founders, William E. Conway, Jr. and David M. Rubenstein, currently serve as Co-Chairmen of the Board. Our Chief Executive Officer, Harvey M. Schwartz, also serves as a Board member. Mark S. Ordan serves as our Lead Independent Director as of March 10, 2025 and was appointed to the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee on April 7, 2025. Previously, Lawton W. Fitt served as our Lead Independent Director since October 2015. The Lead Independent Director presides at executive sessions of the independent directors and engages with them between Board and Committee meetings. In addition, the Lead Independent Director works closely with the independent directors to provide objective oversight of our business and facilitates communications with the Board, the identification of matters for consideration by the Board and management, and the formulation of appropriate guidance to be provided by the independent directors. The Lead Independent Director also routinely engages with our largest shareholders and