Company: LASR
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001124796-25-000043
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Company: NLIGHT, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
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. You can attend the Annual Meeting by visiting www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/LASR2025, w here you will be able to listen to the meeting live, submit questions and vote online . The Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials (the “Notice”) containing instructions on how to access this proxy statement and our annual report is first being mailed on or about April 25, 2025, to all stockholders entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting.

The information provided in the “question and answer” format below is for your convenience only and is merely a summary of the information contained in this proxy statement. You should read this entire proxy statement carefully. Information contained on, or that can be accessed through, our website is not intended to be incorporated by reference into this proxy statement and references to our website address in this proxy statement are inactive textual references only.

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| THE PROXY PROCESS AND STOCKHOLDER VOTING: 
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS                     |

#### What matters am I voting on?
You will be voting on:

• the election of the two Class I director nominees who are named in the accompanying proxy statement to serve until our 2028 annual meeting of stockholders and until their respective successors are duly elected and qualified;

• a proposal to ratify the appointment of KPMG LLP ("KPMG") as our independent registered public accounting firm for our fiscal year ending December 31, 2025;

• a proposal to approve, on an advisory, non-binding basis, the compensation of our named executive officers; and

• any other business as may properly come before the Annual Meeting.

How does the Board of Directors recommend I vote on these proposals?

Our board of directors recommends a vote:

• “FOR” the election of Scott Keeney and Camille Nichols as Class I directors;

• “FOR” the ratification of the appointment of KPMG as our independent registered public accounting firm for our fiscal year ending December 31, 2025; and

• “FOR” the approval, on an advisory, non-binding basis, of the compensation of our named executive officers.

#### Who is entitled to vote?
Holders of our common stock as of the close of business on April 14, 2025, the record date for the Annual Meeting, may vote at the Annual Meeting. As of the record date, there were 49,438,728 shares of our common stock outstanding. Our common stock will vote as a single class on all matters described in