Company: RPID
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001380106-25-000089
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Company: RAPID MICRO BIOSYSTEMS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form: DEF 14A
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 proxy but do not indicate any voting instructions, the persons named as proxies will vote in accordance with the recommendations of the Board. The Board’s recommendations are indicated on page 3 of this proxy statement, as well as with the description of each proposal in this proxy statement.

### WILL ANY OTHER BUSINESS BE CONDUCTED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING?
We are not aware of any other business that will be presented at the Annual Meeting. If any other matter properly comes before the stockholders for a vote at the Annual Meeting, however, the proxy holders named on the Company’s proxy card will vote your shares in accordance with their best judgment.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS HOW MANY VOTES ARE REQUIRED FOR THE APPROVAL OF THE PROPOSALS TO BE VOTED UPON AND HOW WILL ABSTENTIONS AND BROKER NON-VOTES BE TREATED?

| Proposal                                                                                 |     | Votes Required                                                                                                                                                   |     | Effect of Votes Withheld / Abstentions and Broker Non-Votes    |
| Proposal 1: Election of Directors                                                        |     | The plurality of the votes cast. This means that the nominees receiving the highest number of affirmative “FOR” votes will be elected as Class I Directors.      |     | Votes withheld and broker non-votes will have no effect.       |
| Proposal 2: Ratification of Appointment of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm |     | The affirmative vote of the holders of a majority in voting power of the votes cast affirmatively or negatively by the holders entitled to vote on the proposal. |     | Abstentions and broker non-votes, if any, will have no effect. |

WHAT IS AN ABSTENTION AND HOW WILL VOTES WITHHELD AND ABSTENTIONS BE TREATED? A “vote withheld,” in the case of the proposal regarding the election of directors, is an explicit choice not to vote FOR a nominee or nominees and will have no effect on the election of directors. An abstention, in the case of the proposal regarding the ratification of the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, is an explicit choice not to vote FOR or AGAINST the proposal and will have no effect on the outcome of the vote. Votes withheld and abstentions are counted as present and entitled to vote for purposes of determining a quorum. WHAT ARE BROKER NON-VOTES, HOW WILL THEY BE TREATED AND DO THEY COUNT FOR DETERMINING A QUORUM? Generally, broker non-votes occur when shares held