Business Through ethical and transparent business practices, Digital Edge remains steadfast Ethics in our commitment to building best-in-class governance across our footprint. INTRODUCTION We foster a shared set of values and ethics among our and good governance. 100% of our new employees have been use of Digital Edge’s networks and more. A full list of our employees and partners through implementing robust trained through TRACE focusing on individual policies and committee charters, policies and governance documents RESPECT FOR governance practices. This includes anti-bribery and corruption compliance processes. For all Digital Edge’s sales, construction are publicly available on our website: measures, tax compliance, prevention of anti-competitive and 昀椀nance department employees, we conducted live training digitaledgedc.com/governance. RESOURCES behavior, whistleblowing and other compliance protocols. on zero tolerance of bribery and corruption (ABC Compliance Through these e昀昀orts, we build trust with our customers, RESPECT FOR Training) with a 100% completion rate. In 2023, we continued investors, employees and other stakeholders. our Third-Party Due Diligence Policy for all third parties prior PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES to engagement. This policy was launched in 2022 to ensure DIGITAL EDGE HIRES HEAD OF GLOBAL COMPLIANCE Business Ethics Progress and Goals our partners apply the same standards of business conduct In 2023, Digital Edge continued to develop and operationalize RESPECT FOR as we do ourselves. All third parties are subject to the Policy. Meghal Vakil, Senior Compliance Counsel, joined the TRANSPARENCY key compliance policies and practices. We hired a new Head Depending on the category of the Third Party (and their Digital Edge team in 2023 to oversee the revision of of Compliance who is updating our current policies and associated Risk Rating), di昀昀erent levels of due diligence our existing policies and direct ethics and compliance, spearheading new initiatives to ensure we retain strong, and procedures are required. APPENDIX training, risk mitigation and data privacy governance ethical standards. initiatives. She brings with her over 18 years of We have in place several individual policies and procedures experience in technology law, food law, real estate We continued our partnership with TRACE, an international that address anti-corruption, anti-bribery, insider trading, tax law and contract documentation. In her prior role, business association dedicated to anti-bribery, compliance compliance, modern slavery, whistleblower concerns processes, she spearheaded Global Ethics Compliance, managing ethics and compliance, risk mitigation, data privacy and digital legal contracts. As a part of the Tata group for 13 years, she has worked in di昀昀erent industries such as Manufacturing, Retail and FMCG with companies such as Voltas, Tata Starbucks and Tata Consumer Products Limited. We are pleased to have Meghal join our team to ensure we retain our robust, ethical standards. © 2024 Digital Edge ESG Report 29