Company: KVHI
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-040173
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Company: KVH INDUSTRIES INC \DE\
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: DEF 14A
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 Ratification of Appointment of Independent Public Accounting Firm 
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ELECTION OF DIRECTORS The following table provides summary information about our nominees for election to the board as Class II Directors. Additional information for all directors, including the nominees, may be found on pages 7-8 and 13-14.

| ​ | Name           | ​ | ​ | Age | ​ | ​ | Director Since | ​ | ​ | Independent | ​ | ​ | Committee Membership | ​ |
| ​ | Brent C. Bruun | ​ | ​ |  59 | ​ | ​ |           2022 | ​ | ​ | No          | ​ | ​ | None                 | ​ |
| ​ | Joseph Spytek  | ​ | ​ |  54 | ​ | ​ |    New nominee | ​ | ​ | Yes         | ​ | ​ | —                    | ​ |

1 KVH Industries, Inc. 2025 Proxy Statement

TABLE OF CONTENTS PROXY SUMMARY

COMMITMENT TO GOOD CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Our board of directors monitors best practices in governance and adopts measures it determines to be in the best interest of stockholders. Highlights of our governance practices include:

| ​ | ​ | ✔ | ​ | ​ | Our directors are elected for three-year terms by majority voting in uncontested elections and by plurality voting in contested elections   | ​ | ​ |
| ​ | ​ | ✔ | ​ | ​ | All of our directors are independent, other than our CEO                                                                                    | ​ | ​ |
| ​ | ​ | ✔ | ​ | ​ | All of the members of our Audit, Compensation and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees are independent                            | ​ | ​ |
| ​ | ​ | ✔ | ​ | ​ | We have appointed an independent Chair of the Board                                                                                         | ​ | ​ |
| ​ | ​ | ✔ | ​ | ​ | Executive sessions of independent directors are held at each regularly scheduled Board meeting                                              | ​ | ​ |
| ​ | ​ | ✔ | ​ | ​ | We rotated our independent registered public accounting firm in June 2014                                                                   | ​ | ​ |
| ​ | ​ | ✔ | ​ | ​ | We conduct annual stockholder votes to ratify the selection of our independent registered public accounting firm                            | ​ | ​ |
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