Company: SONM
Filing Date: 2025-06-24
Form Type: DEFN14A
Source: 0001213900-25-057305
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Company: SONIM TECHNOLOGIES INC
Filing Date: 2025-06-24
Form: DEFN14A
Chunk 23
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 the Auditor Ratification Proposal and for “ 1 YEAR” on the Say -on-PayFrequency Proposal. Why are the AJP / Orbic Parties soliciting your vote? The AJP/Orbic Parties believe that substantial change is necessary for the stockholders to maximize the value of their investment in Sonim and that such change must start at the Board level. The AJP/Orbic Parties have nominated a slate of five highly qualified, independent nominees with specific industry experience for election to the Board. The AJP/Orbic Nominees are committed to helping drive a strategic transformation of Sonim and to identify opportunities to deliver enhanced value. The AJP/Orbic Nominees are leading industry professionals with strong backgrounds in telecommunications, mobile technology and infrastructure, new product development, new product launch and marketing and the effectuation of strategic transactions. As significant stockholders of Sonim, the AJP/Orbic Parties believe that meaningful change needs to be effected at the Company for all stockholders. As described in greater detail in the “ BACKGROUND FOR THE SOLICITATION” and “ REASONS FOR THE SOLICITATION,” it has become clear to the AJP/Orbic Parties that comprehensive action — including stockholder -drivenchange to the composition of the Board — is required to protect stockholders from further value destruction by the current Board and management team so that all stockholders can realize the true value of their investment. Accordingly, the Orbic/AJP Parties are nominating five highly -qualifieddirector candidates that are seasoned, industry professionals with the requisite education, skills, experience and appropriate sense of urgency to undertake a strategic assessment of Sonim and evaluate and, if appropriate, implement its strategic alternatives. Although the AJP/Orbic Nominees have not made any commitment to the AJP/Orbic Parties to do so, we believe that the AJP/Orbic Nominees, if elected, will be more active than the current members of the Board in conducting a strategic review process for Sonim and to substantively engage with Orbic in respect of the Revised Acquisition Proposal and/or with third parties in respect of one or more other strategic transaction proposals that they may make to the Company from time to time. 9

Who are the AJP / Orbic Nominees? We are proposing that each of Douglas B Benedict, Joseph M. Glynn, Gregory M. Johnson, Surendra Singh, and Michael Wallace be elected to the Board to serve for a one -yearterm expiring