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37 | The Western Union Company – Proxy Statement
NOTICE OF 2015 ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS AND PROXY STATEMENT
Compensation Discussion and Analysis PROXY STATEMENT
Other Corporate Governance Practices
The Board of Directors believes that strong corporate governance is key to long-term stockholder value creation. Please see
“Corporate Governance-Summary of Corporate Governance Practices” above for a summary of the Company’s corporate
governance practices. Highlights include:
Governance Highlights
üAnnual Election of Directors
üProxy Access
üMajority Vote Standard in Uncontested Elections
üStockholder Right to Call Special Meetings
üNo Stockholder Rights Plan (“Poison Pill”)
üNo Supermajority Voting Provisions in the Company’s Organizational Documents
üIndependent Board, except our Chief Executive Officer
üIndependent Non-Executive Chairman
üIndependent Board Committees
üConfidential Stockholder Voting
üCommittee Authority to Retain Independent Advisors
üRobust Codes of Conduct
üStock Ownership Guidelines for Senior Executives and Directors
üProhibition Against Pledging and Hedging of Company Stock by Senior Executives and Directors
üStockholder Engagement
Establishing and Evaluating Executive Compensation
Introduction
This Compensation Discussion and Analysis describes how the Compensation Committee determined 2014 executive
compensation, the elements of our executive compensation program and the compensation of each of our named
executive officers. The information provided should be read together with the information presented in the “Executive
Compensation” section of this Proxy Statement. For 2014, the named executive officers were:
Hikmet Ersek - President and Chief Executive Officer (September 2010 to present)
Rajesh K. Agrawal - Executive Vice President and Interim Chief Financial Officer (January 2014 to July 2014) and
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (July 2014 to present)
Odilon Almeida - Executive Vice President and President, Americas and European Union (January 2014 to present)
J. David Thompson - Executive Vice President, Global Operations (November 2012 to present) and Chief Information
Officer (April 2012 to present)
John R. Dye - Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary (November 2011 to present)