Company: FEAV
Filing Date: 2025-10-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-250705
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Company: 5E Advanced Materials, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-10-27
Form: DEF 14A
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, international business and the mining sectors qualifies him to serve on our Board of Directors.                                                                |

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| (4) Bryn Jones was appointed as a Director in July 2024. Mr. Jones is an Industrial Chemist with over 25 years of extensive development and operational experience in the minerals industry across various commodities, including in-situ mining of uranium. Mr. Jones currently is the Managing Director for entX Limited, a technology incubator that generates ideas, builds development partnerships, and commercializes breakthrough clean energy and nuclear medicine technologies, a position he has held since August 2019. Mr. Jones is a former non-executive director of Australian Rare Earths (ASX: AR3), former Technical Director of Boss Energy Ltd (ASX: BOE), and a former non-executive director of DevEx Resources Ltd (ASX: DEV). Prior to assuming the above directorships, Mr. Jones served as the Chief Operating Officer of Laramide Resources Ltd (ASX: LAM). Mr. Jones serves on our Board as a designee of Ascend, in accordance with the Investor and Registration Rights Agreement as further described in the section titled “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions.” We believe Mr. Jones’ experience in the chemicals and mining industries, including rear earth minerals, as well as prior executive roles and leadership experience qualifies him to serve on our Board of Directors. |

Our directors bring a range of skills and experience in relevant areas, including finance, exploration and production, environment, international business and leadership, as well as specialty chemicals. We believe this cross-section of capabilities enables our Board of Directors to help guide our objectives and corporate governance practices. Recommendation of Our Board of Directors OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS RECOMMENDS THAT OUR STOCKHOLDERS VOTE “FOR” THE ELECTION OF EACH NOMINEE NAMED ABOVE.

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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE</div>

Our Board believes sound corporate governance processes and practices, as well as high ethical standards, are critical to handling challenges and to achieving business success. We embrace leading governance practices and conduct ongoing reviews of our governance structure and processes to reflect changing circumstances. Below are highlights of our corporate governance practices and principles.

Director Independence

Our common stock is listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market (the “Nasdaq”). Under the rules of the Nasdaq, a director will only qualify as an “independent director” if the board of directors determines that the director has no relationship which