Company: LENZ
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-100630
Chunk: 23

Company: LENZ Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 23
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2024, our board of directors held six meetings (including regularly scheduled and special meetings), and each director attended at least 75% of the aggregate of (1) the total number of meetings of the board of directors held during the period for which he or she was a director and (2) the total number of meetings held by all committees on which he or she served during the periods that he or she served as a director.

Although we do not have a formal policy regarding attendance by members of our board of directors at the annual meetings of stockholders, we encourage, but do not require, directors to attend.

Executive Sessions of Non-Employee Directors

To encourage and enhance communication among non-employee directors, and as required under applicable Nasdaq rules, our corporate governance guidelines provide that the non-employee directors will meet in executive sessions without management directors or management present on a periodic basis but no less than two times a year. In addition, if any of our non-employee directors are not independent directors, then our independent directors will also meet in executive session on a periodic basis but no less than two times a year.

Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation

Following the Merger, the members of our compensation committee were Frederic Guerard, Kimberlee C. Drapkin and Shelley Thunen. None of the members of our compensation committee has ever been an executive officer or employee of the Company, other than Ms. Drapkin who served as interim President and Chief Executive Officer of Graphite, and an employee of Graphite, until immediately prior to the consummation of the Merger. None of our executive officers currently serve, or has served during the last completed fiscal year, on the compensation committee or board of directors of any other entity that has one or more executive officers that serves as a member of the board of directors or our compensation committee.

Considerations in Evaluating Director Nominees

Our nominating and governance committee uses a variety of methods for identifying and evaluating potential director nominees. In its evaluation of director candidates, including the current directors eligible for re-election, our nominating and governance committee will consider the current size and composition of our board of directors and the needs of our board of directors and the respective committees of our board of directors and other director qualifications. While our board has not established minimum qualifications for board members, some of the factors that our nominating and governance committee considers in assessing director nominee qualifications include, without limitation, issues of character, professional ethics and integrity, judgment, business experience and diversity