Company: ASC
Filing Date: 2025-05-05
Form Type: 6-K
Source: 0001558370-25-006251
Chunk: 9

Company: Ardmore Shipping Corp
Filing Date: 2025-05-05
Form: 6-K
Chunk 9
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 in the marketplace. Our Code of Ethics is available under the “Investors— Corporate Governance” section of our website at www.ardmoreshipping.com. Board Independence The Board has determined that each of its directors are “independent” under the rules of the New York Stock Exchange (the NYSE) and the rules and regulations of the SEC, except for Gernot Ruppelt, our Chief Executive Office, and Bart Kelleher, our President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary. Board Structure and Committee Composition We have chosen to separate the positions of Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer and to have those positions occupied by different individuals, believing that the primary purpose of the Chair of the Board and the Board is to protect shareholders’ interests by providing oversight of management and that such separation consequently promotes greater management accountability to our shareholders. The Board has the following standing committees: (1) Audit Committee; (2) Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee; (3) Talent and Compensation Committee; and (4) Sustainability Committee. The function of each of the committees is described later in this section. Each of the committees operates under a written charter adopted by the Board. All of the committee charters are available under the “Investors—Corporate Governance” section of our website at www.ardmoreshipping.com. During 2024, the Board held eight meetings. All of our directors then in office attended these Board meetings. Each member of each of our Board committees then in office attended all of their respective committee meetings in 2024. The Board holds executive sessions of non-management directors following each regularly scheduled meeting of the full Board. Additional executive sessions of non-management directors may be held from time to time as required. The director serving as the presiding director during executive sessions currently is Curtis McWilliams, the Chair of the Board. The membership of each of the Board committees as of the date of this proxy statement, and the number of meetings of each committee held in 2024, are as follows:

| Name of Director                                  | Audit |   Talent and 
 Compensation |       Nominating and 
 Corporate Governance | Sustainability |
| Independent Directors:                            |     ​ |            ​ |                    ​ |              ​ |
| Mats Berglund                                     |     ​ |           X* |                    X |              X |
| James Fok                                         |     X |            ​ |                    X |              ​ |
| Curtis Mc Williams**                              |     X |            X |                   X* |              ​ |
| Helen T