Company: DARE
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001401914-25-000014
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Company: Dare Bioscience, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form: DEF 14A
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 a board of directors that, as a whole, possesses the appropriate balance of professional and industry knowledge, financial expertise and high-level management experience necessary to oversee and direct our business. To that end, the N&CG Committee evaluates nominees in the broader context of our Board’s overall composition, with the goal of recruiting members who complement and strengthen the skills of other members and who also exhibit integrity, collegiality, sound business judgment and other qualities that the N&CG Committee views as critical to effective functioning of our Board. The biographies of our directors in the section entitled "Board of Directors," above, include information, as of the date of this Proxy Statement, regarding the specific and particular experience, qualifications, attributes or skills of each director that led the N&CG Committee to believe that that individual should serve on our Board, however, each of the members of the N&CG Committee may have a variety of reasons why he or she believes it is appropriate for a particular individual to serve on our Board, and these views may differ from the views of other members.

Our N&CG Committee considers director candidates recommended by stockholders as well as from other sources including, without limitation, our directors and officers and third party search firms. Once a candidate is identified, the N&CG Committee will evaluate their qualifications in accordance with our N&CG Committee Policy Regarding Qualifications of Directors appended to our N&CG Committee’s written charter. Threshold criteria include personal integrity and sound judgment, business and professional skills and experience, independence, knowledge of our industry, the absence of possible conflicts of interest, diversity, the extent to which the candidate would fill a present need on our Board, and concern for the long-term interests of our stockholders. The N&CG Committee has not adopted a formal diversity policy in connection with the consideration of director nominations or the selection of nominees. However, the N&CG Committee will consider issues of diversity among its members in identifying and considering director nominees, and strives where appropriate to achieve a diverse balance of backgrounds, perspectives, and experience on our Board and its committees.

If a stockholder wishes to propose a candidate for consideration as a nominee for election to our Board, it must follow the procedures described in our by-laws, including the advance notice procedures therein. For information regarding the advance notice procedures, please see “Questions and Answers About the Annual Meeting and Voting—When are stockholder proposals and director nominations due for next year’s annual meeting?” above. We have not received director candidate recommendations from a stockholder and do not have a