Company: VGASW
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-020032
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Company: Verde Clean Fuels, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
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dette held various finance, corporate development, and investment management roles in energy infrastructure and private equity. Mr. Burdette earned a Bachelor’s of Arts in International Business and French from Wofford College and an International Master of Business Administration from the University of South Carolina.

#### John Doyle
has served as our chief technology officer (“

#### Chief Technology Officer
”) since February 2023. Mr. Doyle previously served as the chief technology officer at Intermediate from August 2020 until February 2023. Mr. Doyle has over 25 years in the renewable energy space, taking advanced technologies from design development to commercial implementation. Prior to joining Intermediate, Mr. Doyle served as the chief project officer of Primus from 2013 to June 2020. Prior to joining Primus, Mr. Doyle was a founder and key executive at Verenium Corporation, a cellulosic ethanol company that operated for 12 years before being acquired by BP plc for approximately $120.0 million, becoming the basis for BP Biofuels. Mr. Doyle has managed approximately $1.0 billion in capital projects in the environmental and renewable energy space, including ethanol plants and large-scale pollution projects. Mr. Doyle has earned a Master of Business Administration from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business and a Bachelor’s of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University.

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### EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

#### Overview
We are currently considered a “smaller reporting company” and an “emerging growth company” within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933 for purposes of the SEC’s executive compensation disclosure rules. Accordingly, we are required to provide a Summary Compensation Table and an Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year End Table, as well as limited narrative disclosures regarding executive compensation. Further, our reporting obligations extend only to “named executive officers,” which are the individuals who served as principal executive officer and the next two most highly compensated executive officers at the end of the fiscal year 2024. Our “named executive officers” for purposes of the disclosure herein (“

#### Named Executive Officers
” or “

#### NEOs
”) are:

| Name            |     | Principal Position       |
| Ernest Miller   |     | Chief Executive Officer  |
| George Burdette |     | Chief Financial Officer  |
| John Doyle      |     | Chief Technology Officer |

#### Executive Summary and Compensation Philosophy
The Company believes it is in our stockholders’ best interests to attract, motivate and retain highly