Beneficiary Designation; Change. A participant shall designate his or her Beneficiary by delivering to the Corporate Secretary’s Office a written statement or instructions in a form provided by the Company (the “Beneficiary Designation Form”). A participant shall have the right to change a Beneficiary by completing and otherwise complying with the terms of the Beneficiary Designation Form and the Corporate Secretary’s Office of the Company’s rules and procedures, as in effect from time to time. No Beneficiary Designation Form shall be valid unless accepted by the Corporate Secretary’s Office of the Company. Upon the acceptance by the Corporate Secretary’s Office of the Company of a new Beneficiary Designation Form, all Beneficiary designations previously filed shall be canceled. The Corporate Secretary’s Office of the Company shall be entitled to rely on the last Beneficiary Designation Form filed by the participant and accepted by the Corporate Secretary’s Office of the Company prior to the participant’s death.

A Director or former Director may designate a beneficiary to receive distributions from the Plan in accordance with the provisions of [Section 7] upon the death of the Director. The beneficiary designation may be changed by a Director or former Director at any time, and without the consent of the prior beneficiary, except as required under applicable law.

Beneficiary Designation. The Participant may, pursuant to the Plan, name one or more beneficiaries to whom vested benefits under this Agreement shall be paid in case of Participant’s death before Participant receives all of such benefits. In the absence of any such designation, benefits remaining unpaid at the Participant’s death shall be paid to his or her estate.

Beneficiary Designation. The Participant may designate on the attached beneficiary designation the person or persons to receive payment of Vested RSUs in the event of the Participant’s death. In the event the Participant fails to designate a beneficiary, amounts payable in the event of Participant’s death shall be paid to the Participant’s estate.

Each Non-Employee Director may designate a beneficiary for each outstanding grant of Restricted Stock and for payment of his Deferred Accounts in the event of his death. If no beneficiary is designated or the beneficiary does not survive the Non-Employee Director, the award shall be made to the Non-Employee Director’s surviving spouse or, if there is none, to his estate.

Beneficiary Designation. A Participant may designate a beneficiary to receive any Options that may be exercised after death or to receive any other Award that may be paid after his death, as provided for in the Award Agreement. Such designation and any change or revocation of such designation shall be made in writing in the form and manner prescribed by the Committee (or its delegee). In the event that the designated beneficiary dies prior to the Participant, or in the event that no beneficiary has been designated, any Awards that may be exercised or paid following the Participant’s death shall be transferred or paid in accordance with the Participant’s will or the laws of descent and distribution.

Beneficiary Designation. The Awardee may designate one or more beneficiaries, from time to time, to whom any benefit under this Agreement is to be paid in case of Awardee’s death. Each designation must be in writing, signed by Awardee and delivered to the Company. Each new designation will revoke all prior designations.

No designation or change in designation of a Beneficiary shall be effective until received, accepted and acknowledged in writing by the Committee or its designated agent. Any such acknowledgement not received by the Participant before his death shall not be valid.

You may designate a beneficiary to receive payment in connection with the Restricted Stock Units awarded hereunder in the event of your death while in service with ​ or its Subsidiaries in accordance with ​’s beneficiary designation procedures, as in effect from time to time. Any beneficiary designation in effect at the time of your termination of employment with ​ and its Subsidiaries (other than a termination of employment due to your death) will remain in effect following your termination of employment unless you change your beneficiary designation or it otherwise ceases to be enforceable and/or valid in accordance with ​`s beneficiary designation procedures, as in effect from time to time. If you do not designate a beneficiary or if your designated beneficiary does not survive you, then your beneficiary will be your estate.

That he or she has the right to designate the Beneficiary or Beneficiaries, and thereafter to change the Beneficiary or Beneficiaries, of any death benefit payable under the Plan, by completing and delivering to the Company a Beneficiary Designation in the form specified by the Plan Administrator.

To complete this beneficiary designation, this Agreement should be printed out, the information above should be completed, and the Agreement should be forwarded to ​. The Participant may modify this beneficiary designation by submitting the change in writing to the Company. Beneficiary designations are not effective until received by the Company. If no beneficiary is designated, then except as may be provided in the Plan, any benefits due hereunder following the death of the Participant will be paid to the Participant’s estate.

Payment Following Death. An Eligible Employee may designate and change at any time the Beneficiary who is to receive distribution of the vested portion of the Eligible Employee’s Deferral Account in the event of the Eligible Employee’s death. Any such designation or change shall not be effective until received by the representative of the Company designated by the Committee. If an Eligible Employee has not properly designated a Beneficiary, if for any reason such designation shall not be legally effective, or if the designated Beneficiary shall predecease the Eligible Employee, then the Eligible Employee’s estate shall be treated as the Beneficiary.

. The Performance-Based Restricted Stock Units are not transferable (either voluntarily or involuntarily), other than pursuant to a domestic relations order. Employee may designate a beneficiary or beneficiaries (the “Beneficiary”) to whom any previously vested but unsettled Performance-Based Restricted Stock Units, and any shares of Common Stock previously issued upon settlement of vested Performance-Based Restricted Stock Units that have not yet been delivered to Employee, will pass upon Employee’s death and may change such designation from time to time by filing a written designation of Beneficiary on such form as may be prescribed by the Company; provided that no such designation shall be effective until filed with the Company. Employee may change his Beneficiary without the consent of any prior Beneficiary by filing a new designation with the Company; provided that no such designation shall be effective prior to receipt by the Company. Following Employee’s death, the vested Performance-Based Restricted Stock Units and shares of Common Stock will pass to the designated Beneficiary and such person will be deemed Employee for purposes of any applicable provisions of this Agreement. If no such designation is made or if the designated Beneficiary does not survive Employee’s death, the vested Performance-Based Restricted Stock Units and shares of Common Stock shall pass by will or, if none, then by the laws of descent and distribution.

Section # Designation Procedure. Each Participant may designate one beneficiary or several beneficiaries (such beneficiary or beneficiaries of a Participant herein referred to as the Participant’s “Beneficiaries”) to receive any balance, or portion thereof, of his or her Accounts which may be payable under the Plan upon his or her death. To be effective, each designation must be in writing on a form provided by the Committee and must be signed by the Participant and filed with the Committee prior to the Participant’s death. Each Participant may name one or more primary Beneficiaries and one or more contingent Beneficiaries; provided that if a Participant names more than one Beneficiary, the Participant shall designate the percentage payable to each. A Participant may from time to time revoke or change his or her Beneficiaries designation without the consent of any Beneficiary by filing a new designation with the Committee, and each change will revoke all prior designations of Beneficiaries. The last such designation of Beneficiaries received by the Committee shall be controlling; provided, however, that no designation, or change or revocation thereof, shall be effective unless received by the Committee prior to the Participant’s death, and in no event shall it be effective as of a date prior to such receipt.

Death of a Director/Beneficiary Designation. Each Participant under the Plan may, from time to time, name any beneficiary or beneficiaries (who may be named primarily or contingently) to whom any benefit under the Plan is to be paid in the event of his or her death.

Prior to ​, Participant’s beneficiary designation for this Plan were automatically the same as the Participant’s beneficiary designation recognized under the CBS Excess 401(k) Plan. Effective as of ​, a Participant’s beneficiary designation for the Plan will be a separate written designation in a form acceptable to the Administrative Committee that has been properly filed with the Administrative Committee and recorded in the Company’s records. If no such beneficiary designation has been made under the Plan, then a Participant’s beneficiary designation for the Plan shall be the same as the Participant’s beneficiary designation recognized under the CBS Excess 401(k) Plan, or its successors, including the ViacomCBS Excess 401(k) Plan, as applicable. If no such beneficiary designation has been made under the CBS Excess 401(k) Plan, or its successors, then a Participant’s beneficiary designation for the Plan shall be the same as the Participant’s beneficiary designation recognized under the CBS 401(k) Plan, or its successors including the ViacomCBS 401(k) Plan, as applicable.

If a participant completes or has completed a beneficiary designation form in which the participant designates his spouse as the beneficiary and the participant and such spouse are legally divorced subsequent to the date of such designation; then, the designation shall be administered as if such spouse had predeceased the participant unless the participant, subsequent to the legal divorce, reaffirms the designation by completing a new beneficiary designation form.