Company: VGASW
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-020032
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Company: Verde Clean Fuels, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 27
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 Ethics
”) that applies to all of our directors, officers and employees, including our principal executive officers, principal financial officer and principal accounting officer, which is available on our website. Our Code of Ethics is a “code of ethics,” as defined in Item 406(b) of Regulation S-K. We will make any legally required disclosures regarding amendments to, or waivers of, provisions of our code of ethics on our website at https://www.verdecleanfuels.com.

Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation

None of the members of our Compensation Committee has ever been one of its executive officers or employees. None of our executive officers currently serves, or has served during the last completed fiscal year, as a member of the Board or Compensation Committee of any other entity that has one or more executive officers that will serve as a member of our Board or our Compensation Committee.

Insider Trading Policy and Prohibition against Hedging and Pledging Transactions

We have adopted an insider trading policy (“

#### Insider Trading Policy
”) governing the purchase, sale, and/or other disposition of the Company’s common stock by officers, directors and employees designed to promote compliance with insider trading laws, rules and regulations, and Nasdaq Listing Rules. Under the Insider Trading Policy, short sales of the Company’s securities are prohibited. This prohibition also applies to any derivative securities that provide the economic equivalent of ownership of any of the Company’s securities or an opportunity, direct or indirect, to profit from any change in the value of the Company’s securities. In addition, pledging of our securities as collateral for a loan (or modifying an existing pledge) is not permitted.

A copy of the Insider Trading Policy was filed as an exhibit to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, which is available on the SEC website at https://www.sec.gov.

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### DIRECTOR COMPENSATION
Since April 2023, the Company has paid cash compensation to each director of $70,000 per year, payable on a quarterly basis, and in May 2024, the Company adopted director compensation for the period ending on the date of the Annual Meeting in which each director received options to purchase 57,014 shares of Class A Common Stock. Mr. Hulme received an additional option to purchase 23,324 shares of Class A Common Stock (resulting in an aggregate award of options to purchase 80,338 shares of Class A Common Stock) in respect of