Company: AXS-PE
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001214816-25-000088
Chunk: 9

Company: AXIS CAPITAL HOLDINGS LTD
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 9
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 will continue to consider the matter on an annual basis.

Our classified structure has not impeded refreshment of our Board. Since 2020, we have added six new directors, with a variety of backgrounds and skill sets. 50% of our current directors joined the board since 2020. Our Corporate Governance, Nominating, and Social Responsibility Committee believes that the most effective boards have directors with a balanced range of tenures, combining Company history with fresh perspectives. To that end, the Corporate Governance, Nominating, and Social Responsibility Committee regularly tracks the span of director tenures, together with its review of skills, backgrounds and personal attributes.

Skills, Qualifications, and Experience of Directors

For the Board to satisfy its oversight responsibilities effectively, the Board seeks members who combine the highest standards of integrity with significant accomplishments in their chosen fields. The Corporate Governance, Nominating, and Social Responsibility Committee is responsible for recommending qualified candidates for directorships to be filled by the Board or by our shareholders. Directors are expected to bring a diversity of experiences, skills, and perspectives to our Board.

| 6 |     | AXIS 2025 Proxy Statement |

| Proposal One |

The Committee considers the qualities of intelligence, honesty, perceptiveness, good judgment, high ethics and standards, integrity, and fairness to be of paramount importance. It also examines experience, diversity, knowledge and skills in business judgment, leadership, strategic planning, general management practices, and crisis response. In addition, the Committee looks for candidates with financial expertise and a willingness and ability to commit the time required to fully discharge their responsibilities to the Board. The Committee evaluates candidates based on their qualifications and not based on the manner in which they were submitted for consideration.

Factors that promote different perspectives on the Board, which may include independence from management, age, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and national origin, are considered in the identification and evaluation of our director candidates.

As reflected in the chart below, we believe our Board offers a diverse range of skills and experience to provide effective oversight of the Company and create long-term growth through successful execution of the Company's strategic initiatives.

| Directors                               |     | Becker |     | Davis |     | Dowling |     | Galanski |     | Hardwick |     | Millegan |     | Ramey |     | Smith |     | Theis |     | Tizzio |     | Yastine |     | Zlatkus |
| Experiential Criteria(1)                |