Company: VALU
Filing Date: 2025-08-22
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001437749-25-027553
Chunk: 9

Company: VALUE LINE INC
Filing Date: 2025-08-22
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 9
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zer (67). Special Agent (Retired), Federal Bureau of Investigation (the “FBI”) from 1991 to 2012. Mr. Muenzer is an accomplished law enforcement professional with extensive law enforcement and financial investigative experience. Prior to joining the FBI, Mr. Muenzer was Vice President and Manager of Internal Audit at Thomson McKinnon Securities, Inc.; Assistant Vice President of Internal Audit at EF Hutton; Senior Auditor with Deloitte. Mr. Muenzer is a Certified Public Accountant and Certified in Financial Forensics. |     2012 |

* Member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors.

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Director Qualifications

We strive to ensure that our nominees to the Board include a complementary set of professionals with experience across various industries and sizes of organizations. They possess relevant skills to promote the Company’s future development and success. When considering whether directors and potential directors possess the experience, qualifications, attributes and skills, taken as a whole, to enable the Board to satisfy its oversight responsibilities effectively in light of the Company’s business and structure, the Board focused primarily on the information discussed in each of the directors’ individual histories set forth above. In particular, with regard to Mr. Brecher, the Board considered his superb academic background, and his over 25 years of executive experience with the Company in both legal and operational roles, as well as his extensive knowledge of the Company’s product lines and operational structure. With regard to Mr. Davis, the Board considered that he has managed his own business serving a number of clients in financial services and other industries, and has served as an official of a major municipal police department. With regard to Mr. Fiore, the Board considered that he served as the Chief of Police of Westport, Connecticut – responsible for overseeing law enforcement activities and managing a highly visible and critical governmental function with all of its attendant legal, financial and operational concerns. With respect to Mr. Muenzer, who serves as the Value Line Audit Committee Financial Expert, Mr. Muenzer has extensive financial investigative and supervisory experience with the FBI in New York and as a Certified Public Accountant and internal audit executive. The Board considered that Mr. Anastasio has more than 30 years’ experience with the Company in his roles as Corporate Controller, Chief Accounting Officer, and Treasurer. The Board also considered that Mr. Anastasio is a Certified Public Accountant with extensive knowledge of corporate taxation regulations. Mrs. Bernstein retired as an employee of the Company