Company: PENG
Filing Date: 2025-12-19
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001616533-25-000073
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Company: Penguin Solutions, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-19
Form: DEF 14A
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 investor road shows, analyst meetings, and investor conferences and meetings. We also communicate with stockholders and other stakeholders through various media, including our annual report and SEC filings, proxy statement, news releases, and our website. Our conference calls for quarterly earnings releases are open to all. These calls are available in real time and as archived webcasts on our website for a period of time.

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As set forth in our Corporate Governance Guidelines, unless otherwise indicated in such guidelines or our policies, all requests by stockholders for communications with individual directors or the Board shall initially be made to our Secretary, who will relay such requests to the Chair of the Board or other directors as appropriate. Such requests should be sent to c/o Penguin Solutions, Inc., 45800 Northport Loop West, Fremont, CA 94538 . As set forth in our Policy for Reporting C oncerns, stockholders who are also directors, employees, or contractors of Penguin Solutions should report concerns related to accounting, auditing, and ethical violations directly to the CFO or his designee, to the Chair of the Audit Committee (to the extent that the concerns relate to accounting, auditing, or internal controls), or via our anonymous whistleblower hotline. Any such concerns shall be communicated to our officers or directors as set forth in the policy.

### Code of Business Conduct and Ethics
The Board has adopted a Code of Business Conduct and Ethics that applies to all directors, officers, and employees, including those officers responsible for financial reporting. A copy of our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics is available in the Governance section of the Investors section of our website at ir.penguinsolutions.com . If we make any substantive amendments to our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics or grant any waiver from a provision of our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics to any director or our principal executive officer, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer, or controller, or persons performing similar functions, we will promptly disclose the nature of the amendment or waiver on our website in accordance with the requirements of Item 5.05 of Form 8-K.

Director and Officer Stock Ownership Retention Policy

As stated in our Corporate Governance Guidelines, the Board believes that directors and officers should hold meaningful equity ownership positions in the Company. In fiscal year 2020, the Board adopted a Director and Officer Stock Ownership Retention Policy (also referred to as our “stock ownership guidelines”), which provides equity ownership requirements for our independent directors and Section 16 officers. A copy of our Director and Officer Stock Ownership Ret