Company: ACCS
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000843006-25-000014
Chunk: 13

Company: ACCESS Newswire Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 13
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holder). In making its independence determinations, the Board sought to identify and analyze all of the facts and circumstances relating to any relationship between a director, his immediate family or affiliates and our company and our affiliates and did not rely on categorical standards other than those contained in the NYSE American rule referenced above.

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BOARD COMMITTEES

Our Board has established an Audit Committee and a Compensation Committee, each of which has the composition and responsibilities described below.

| Audit Committee                                                                      |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| Members:   ● Graeme P. Rein  (Chairperson) ● Wesley T. Pollard   Meetings in 2024: 4 |     | Our Audit Committee was implemented on October 23, 2013 and is currently comprised of Messrs. Pollard and Rein, each of whom our Board has determined to be financially literate and qualify as an independent director under the Independence Rules. Mr. Rein is the Chairperson of our Audit Committee.   Each of Messrs. Pollard and Rein qualify as a financial expert, as defined in Item 407(d)(5)(ii) of Regulation S-K.   Responsibilities   The Audit Committee’s duties are to recommend to our Board the engagement of independent auditors to audit our financial statements and to review our accounting and reporting principles. The Audit Committee will review the scope, timing and fees for the annual audit and the results of audit examinations performed by the independent public accountants, including their recommendations to improve the system of accounting and internal controls. During the year ended December 31, 2024, our Audit Committee held four meetings. |

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MEETINGS AND ATTENDANCE

During the year ended December 31, 2024, the Board held six meetings and the respective committees held seven total meetings, and each director attended all of (i) Board meetings held during the period for which he was a director and (ii) committee meetings held during the period for which he or she was a committee member. We do not have a policy requiring director attendance at stockholder meetings, but members of our Board are encouraged to attend.

COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

A stockholder who wishes to communicate with our Board, any committee of our Board, the non-management directors or any particular director, may do so by writing to such director or directors in care of the Corporate Secretary, c/o ACCESS Newswire Inc., One Glenwood Avenue, Suite