Company: CRAI
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-039429
Chunk: 5

Company: CRA INTERNATIONAL, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 5
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 ONE:
ELECTION OF DIRECTORS Proposal One concerns the election of two Class III directors. Our board of directors currently consists of eight directors and is divided into three classes. We refer to these classes as Class I, Class II and Class III. The term of one class of directors expires each year at the annual meeting of our shareholders. Each director also continues to serve as a director until his or her successor is duly elected and qualified. This year, the term of the Class III directors is expiring. Accordingly, our board of directors has nominated Paul Maleh and Thomas Avery to serve as Class III directors for a three-year term. Our shareholders elected Messrs. Maleh and Avery as Class III directors at our annual meeting of shareholders in July 2022. The current terms of Messrs. Maleh and Avery will expire at the annual meeting. Proxies will not be voted at the annual meeting for more than two candidates. Messrs. Maleh and Avery have agreed to serve if elected, and we have no reason to believe that either of them will be unable to serve. If either of them is unable or declines to serve as a director at the time of the annual meeting, proxies will be voted for another nominee designated by our board of directors at that time. Our board of directors recommends that you vote FOR the election of Messrs. Maleh and Avery. 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Overview In designing our corporate governance structure, we seek to identify and implement the practices that we believe will best serve the interests of our business and shareholders, including the practices mandated by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and the related rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Nasdaq Global Select Market. You can find our current corporate governance principles, including our code of business conduct and ethics, our statement of corporate governance guidelines, and the charters for the standing committees of our board of directors through the Investor Relations page of our website at www.crai.com. Our code of business conduct and ethics applies not only to our principal executive officer, principal financial officer and principal accounting officer, but also to all of our other officers and employees, directors and outside consultants. Our code of business conduct and ethics includes, among other things, provisions covering compliance with law, rules and regulations, conflicts of interest, insider trading, fair dealing, proper use of our assets, confidentiality, health and safety, discrimination and harassment, accounting and record keeping, and the reporting of illegal