Company: BHE
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-051057
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Company: BENCHMARK ELECTRONICS INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form: DEF 14A
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 be deemed not entitled to vote with regard to certain proposals as discussed under “How to Vote If You Hold Your Shares in ‘Street Name’” below.

| 1  Benchmark. Benchmark Electronics, Inc.     •    2025 Proxy Statement |

INTRODUCTION

How to Vote If You Are a Registered Holder of Common Stock

If you are a registered holder of Common Shares, you may vote them either by proxy as set forth in the Notice and/or proxy card in advance of the Meeting or by voting in person at the Meeting. By submitting a proxy, you are legally authorizing another person to vote your shares on your behalf.

Attending the Meeting

Only holders of our Common Shares as of the close of business on the Record Date, which was March 21, 2025, or their duly appointed proxies, may attend the Meeting. If you hold your shares through a broker, bank or other nominee, you will be required to show the Notice or voting instructions form you received from your broker, bank or other nominee or a copy of a statement (such as a brokerage statement) from your broker, bank or other nominee reflecting your stock ownership as of the Record Date in order to be admitted to the Meeting. All attendees must bring a government-issued photo ID to gain admission to the Meeting. Please note that recording devices, photographic equipment, large bags and packages will not be permitted in the meeting room.

How to Vote If You Hold Your Shares in “Street Name”

Most shareholders do not have their shares registered directly with the Company in their name; instead, their shares are held in their brokerage account or by a bank or other custodian who votes the shares according to the instructions submitted to them by the beneficial owner of the shares. If you do not submit voting instructions to your broker, bank or other nominee, they will not be permitted to vote your shares on any proposal, unless the proposal constitutes a “discretionary” item and your broker, bank or other nominee is a member of the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) and permitted by NYSE rules to vote on “discretionary” items, such as the ratification of the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm. The election of directors and the Say-on-Pay vote are “nondiscretionary” items. Without your instructions, your shares may be represented at the Meeting, but as to nondiscretionary items, they may not be voted, resulting in“broker non-votes”on those items. Because they cannot be voted on those matters,