Company: ANY
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001591956-25-000025
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Company: Sphere 3D Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form: DEF 14A
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 the issuer or its agent has sent proxy-related materials directly to you, your name and address and information about your holdings of securities, have been obtained in accordance with applicable securities regulatory requirements from your Intermediary. By choosing to send these materials to you directly, the issuer (and not the Intermediary) has assumed responsibility for (i) delivering these materials to you, and (ii) executing your proper voting instructions. Please return your voting instructions as specified in the request for voting instructions.

#### Broker Non-Votes
A broker “non-vote” occurs when an Intermediary for a Non-Registered Shareholder does not vote on a particular proposal because the Intermediary does not have discretionary voting power for that particular item and has not received instructions from the Non-Registered Shareholder. An Intermediary holding the common shares in “street name” for a Non-Registered Shareholder has discretion (but is not required) to vote the Non-Registered Shareholder’s common shares with respect to “routine” matters if the Non-Registered Shareholder does not provide voting instructions. The Intermediary, however, is not permitted to vote the Non-Registered Shareholder’s common shares with respect to “non-routine” matters without voting instructions.

The Company expects that the Name Change Proposal and the Adjournment Proposal, will each be treated as a routine matter, which means that Intermediaries will have discretionary authority to vote Non-Registered Shareholders’ common shares held in street name on this matter. Accordingly, if Non-Registered Shareholders do not instruct their Intermediary on how to vote their shares, the Intermediary may either (a) vote the shares on the Name Change Proposal and the Adjournment Proposal, or (b) leave the shares unvoted on the Name Change Proposal and the Adjournment Proposal. If the Name Change Proposal and the Adjournment Proposal are treated as routine matters as expected, broker non-votes should not occur with respect to these matters in connection with the Meeting. However, the Company expects that the Warrant Inducement Proposal will be treated as a non-routine matter, which means that Intermediaries will not have discretionary authority to vote Non-Registered Shareholders’ common shares held in street name on the Warrant Inducement Proposal. In such case, a broker non-vote will occur, and a Non-Registered Shareholder’s shares will not be voted on this matter.

#### Voting at the Meeting
Registered Shareholders entitled to vote at the Meeting may