Company: TMCWW
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-036264
Chunk: 17

Company: TMC the metals Co Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 17
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 upon exercise of Class A Warrants owned by Allseas Group S.A. Excludes 1,000,000 common shares held by Argentum Cedit Virtuti GCV, which has an ownership interest in Allseas Group S. A., to which Allseas Group, S.A. does not have voting or investment power with respect thereto. 11

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MANAGEMENT AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Our Board of Directors Our board of directors accepted the recommendation of the nominating and corporate governance committee and voted to nominate eight directors for election at the Annual Meeting for a term of one year to serve until the 2026 annual meeting of shareholders, or until their respective successors have been elected and qualified. The number of directors for the Company is set by ordinary resolution of the shareholders of the Company. Management of the Company is seeking shareholder approval of an ordinary resolution determining the number of directors of the Company at eight for the ensuing year. Set forth below are the names of the persons nominated for election as directors, their ages, their offices in the Company, if any, their principal occupations or employment for at least the past five years, the length of their tenure as directors and the names of other public companies in which such persons hold or have held directorships during the past five years as of April 18, 2025. Additionally, information about the specific experience, qualifications, attributes or skills that led to our board of directors’ conclusion at the time of filing of this proxy statement that each person listed below should serve as a director is set forth below. Amelia Kinahoi Siamomua is not up for re-election to our board of directors at the Annual Meeting and her term as director will end at the Annual Meeting.

| Name                | ​ | ​ | Age | ​ | ​ | Position                                                                                   | ​ |
| Director Nominees:  | ​ | ​ |   ​ | ​ | ​ | ​                                                                                          | ​ |
| Gerard Barron       | ​ | ​ |  58 | ​ | ​ | Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors                             | ​ |
| Andrew Hall         | ​ | ​ |  61 | ​ | ​ | Director                                                                                   | ​ |
| Andrew Greig        | ​ | ​ |  68 | ​ | ​ | Lead Independent Director                                                                  | ​ |
| Andrei Karkar       | ​ | ​ |  47 | ​ | ​ | Director                                                                                   | ​ |
| Sheila Khama