Company: RPID
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001380106-25-000089
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Company: RAPID MICRO BIOSYSTEMS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form: DEF 14A
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 elect a lead director whose responsibilities include presiding over all meetings of the Board at which the Chair is not present, including any executive sessions of the independent directors; approving meeting schedules and agendas; and acting as the liaison between the independent directors and the Chief Executive Officer and Chair of the Board, as appropriate. The full list of responsibilities of our lead director may be found in our Corporate Governance Guidelines. We currently do not have a lead director as the Chair of the Board is an independent director.

One of the key functions of our Board is informed oversight of our risk management process. Our Board does not have a standing risk management committee, but rather administers this oversight function directly through our Board as a whole, as well as through various standing committees of our Board that address risks inherent in their respective areas of oversight. In particular, our Board is responsible for monitoring and assessing strategic risk exposure and our Audit

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Committee has the responsibility to consider and discuss our major financial and cybersecurity risk exposures and the steps our management has taken to monitor and control these exposures, including guidelines and policies to govern the process by which risk assessment and management is undertaken. Our Audit Committee also monitors compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. Our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee monitors the effectiveness of our corporate governance practices, including whether they are successful in preventing illegal or improper liability-creating conduct. Our Compensation Committee assesses and monitors whether any of our compensation policies and programs has the potential to encourage excessive risk-taking. While each committee is responsible for evaluating certain risks and overseeing the management of such risks, our entire Board is regularly informed through committee reports about such risks.

#### INSIDER TRADING COMPLIANCE POLICY; ANTI-HEDGING
Our Board has adopted an Insider Trading Compliance Policy, which governs transactions in our securities by the Company’s directors, officers and employees, that we believe is reasonably designed to promote compliance with insider trading laws, rules and regulations, and listing standards applicable to the Company. A copy of our Insider Trading Compliance Policy is filed with our 2024 Annual Report as Exhibit 19.1. Furthermore, it is the Company’s policy to comply with applicable insider trading laws, rules and regulations, and any exchange listing standards when engaging in transactions in Company securities.

Our Insider Trading Compliance Policy also prohibits our directors, officers and employees and any entities they control that are subject to such policy from purchasing financial instruments, such as prepaid variable forward contracts, equity swaps, collars, and exchange