Company: ACCS
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000843006-25-000014
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Company: ACCESS Newswire Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form: DEF 14A
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 director’s appointment and the date of our first annual meeting of stockholders following the date of grant (or to the extent that we have not determined the date of the next annual meeting of stockholders on or before the date of grant, June 15 of the year following the date of grant)). The amount of $30,000 was determined by the Board based on a survey of the value and type of equity grants to members of board of directors of similarly sized publicly trading companies. The RSU’s will fully vest on the date of our first annual meeting of stockholders following the date of grant or immediately prior to the consummation of a change of control event. If an individual is appointed as a non-employee director at an annual meeting of stockholders, he or she will be granted an annual equity grant, as described above, in lieu of the initial equity grant. None of the nominees for the Board contained in this Proxy Statement would be entitled to this initial equity grant.

Quarterly Cash Payment. Each non-employee director will receive a quarterly cash retainer of $7,500 for service on our Board and our Chairperson of our Audit Committee and Compensation Committee will each receive an additional quarterly cash retainer of $1,500. The cash retainers were determined by the Board based on a survey of cash retainers paid to members of board of directors of similarly sized publicly traded companies.

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2024 NON-EMPLOYEE DIRECTOR COMPENSATION TABLE

The following table shows amounts earned by each non-employee director in fiscal 2024:

| Director               |     | Fees Earned or Paid in Cash |        |    |     | Stock Awards |        |    |     | Warrant Awards |   |     | Non-Equity Incentive Plan Compensation |   |     | Change in Pension Value and Non- qualified Deferred Compensation Earnings |   |     | All Other Compensation |   |     | Total |        |
|:-----------------------|:----|:----------------------------|-------:|---:|:----|:-------------|-------:|---:|:----|:---------------|:--|:----|:---------------------------------------|:--|:----|:--------------------------------------------------------------------------|:--|:----|:-----------------------|:--|:----|:------|-------:|
| Wesley T. Pollard(1)   |     | $                           | 15,000 |    |     | $            | 29,999 | -