Starboard Comments on Box ISS Report

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Aug 24, 2021

Highlights ISS View that Starboard Has Been Key Driver of Positive Change at Box and Notes ISS Concerns with Recent KKR-Led Financing

ISS Recommends Withholding Votes for Dana Evan

ISS States that Starboard's "Interactions with and Pressure on the Company Have Clearly Been Beneficial" and that Starboard "Deserves Significant Credit for the Changes that Have Taken Place Since it Reached a Settlement" with Box

ISS Agrees with Starboard that the KKR Preferred Equity Financing Raises Governance Concerns, Calling it a "Head Scratcher"

ISS Recognizes the Board's "Reluctance to Proactively Embrace Good Governance Absent Pressure from a Major Shareholder"

ISS Highlights "Lingering Governance Issues" and Long-Tenure in Recommending Box Stockholders Withhold Votes on the Election of Dana Evan

Starboard Urges All Stockholders to Vote on the WHITE Proxy Card for the Election of Starboard's Highly Qualified Nominees

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