Designation of Beneficiary(ies). Each Participant shall have the right to designate a beneficiary or beneficiaries (including contingent beneficiaries) to receive any benefits payable upon the death of a Participant. No such designation shall be effective unless completed and submitted in accordance with rules and procedures established by the Bank for this purpose. In the absence of an effective beneficiary designation, the Participant’s designated beneficiary shall be assumed to be the Participant’s surviving spouse or, if none, the Participant’s estate.

Absence of Beneficiary Designation. In the absence of a valid Beneficiary designation, or if, at the time any benefit payment is due to a Beneficiary, there is no living Beneficiary validly named by the Executive, the Employer shall pay the benefit payment to the Executive’s spouse. If the spouse is not living then the Employer shall pay the benefit payment to the Executive’s living descendants per stirpes, and if there are no living descendants, to the Executive’s estate. In determining the existence or identity of anyone entitled to a benefit payment, the Employer may rely conclusively upon information supplied by the Executive’s personal representative, executor, or administrator.

10.2Beneficiary Designation; Change of Beneficiary Designation. A Participant shall designate his or her Beneficiary by completing and delivering the Beneficiary Designation Form to the Committee or its designated agent. A Participant shall have the right to change a Beneficiary by completing and delivering a new Beneficiary Designation Form to the Committee. Upon the acceptance by the Committee of a new Beneficiary Designation Form, all Beneficiary designations previously filed shall be canceled. The Committee shall be entitled to rely on the last Beneficiary Designation Form filed by the Participant and accepted by the Committee prior to his or her death. No designation or change in designation of a Beneficiary shall be effective until received by the Committee or its designated agent. In the event a Participant becomes divorced or legally separated from his or her spouse, any Beneficiary Designation Form designating such spouse as a beneficiary shall automatically be null and void as of the date of such divorce or legal separation; provided, however, that the Participant may designate such spouse (or former spouse) as a beneficiary under a new Beneficiary Designation Form.

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 January 1, 2014, 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 January 1, 2014, 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.

Beneficiary Designations. The Beneficiary designation for a Participant shall be the same as his Beneficiary designation under the Retirement Plan. If no valid Beneficiary designation exists at the time of the Participant’s death under the Retirement Plan, then the designation of a Beneficiary will follow the default provisions of the Retirement Plan if the Participant is a participant in the Retirement Plan at the time of his death.

Beneficiary. In accordance with the Plan, the Executive, by completing, signing and returning to the Company a "Designation of Beneficiary," shall have the right to designate a beneficiary to receive any payment of any Award (deferred or otherwise) and/or to exercise the option, remaining unpaid and/or unexercised at Executive's death, all in the manner and to the extent set forth in this Agreement. The designation may be changed at any time by written notice delivered to the Company. If no Designation of Beneficiary is made, any Award remaining unpaid or unexercised, in whole or in part, at the time of death of the Executive, shall be paid to, or may be exercised by, his legal representative. The Executive cannot otherwise transfer any Award.

Beneficiary. Beneficiary means the person or persons designated by an Eligible Employee who are to receive any amounts payable under the Plan following the death of the Eligible Employee.

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.

3.5If the Director or former Director dies before all payments has been made, payments(s) shall be made to the beneficiary designated on the Designation of Beneficiary Form ([Exhibit 3]). The designated beneficiary may be changed from time to time by delivering a new Designation of Beneficiary Form to Hasbro. If no designation is made, or if the named beneficiary predeceases the Director, payment shall be made to the Director’s estate.