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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 BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |

| BIPIN JAYARAJ    |    Senior Vice President, Chief Digital and Information Officer                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| Bipin Jayaraj, 48, has been Senior Vice President and Chief Digital & Information Officer for the Company since July 2024. Mr. Jayaraj joined Benchmark from Rogers Corporation (NYSE:ROG), a global provider of high-performance and high-reliability engineered materials and components, where he served as its Vice President and Global Chief Information Officer from October 2021 until July 2024, leading multiple technology initiatives that enabled global, cross-functional teams to collaborate securely on world-class technology platforms. Prior to Rogers, Mr. Jayaraj held leadership roles at Make-A-Wish America from July 2017 until October 2021, most recently as its Chief Digital & Information Technology Officer, and spent 14 years at NTT Data, working closely with Honeywell. Mr. Jayaraj holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Anna University, Tamil Nadu, India, an Executive MBA from Arizona State University, and a Certificate in Executive Development from the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. |

| 11  Benchmark. Benchmark Electronics, Inc.     •    2025 Proxy Statement |

#### PROPOSAL 1 — ELECTION OF DIRECTORS
Corporate Governance, Committee Charters, Shareholder Communications

The Company places integrity first and foremost, which has long been a part of our corporate identity. The Company’s practices reflect corporate governance compliant with existing standards of the NYSE and requirements of the SEC, as well as other best practices, including:

The Company’s Code of Conduct applies to all directors, officers (including our Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and principal accounting officer) and employees;

The Company has a system in place to encourage and facilitate confidential and anonymous reports of compliance concerns, including to the Audit Committee of the Board;

Executive officers are subject to a clawback policy relating to performance-based compensation earned during periods for which a financial restatement is required under SEC reporting rules;

Directors and executives are prohibited from pledging, hedging, selling short or otherwise engaging in speculative practices regarding the Company’s securities;

The Company has adopted a Securities Trading Policy governing transactions involving the sale, purchase and/or other dispositions of the Company’s equity securities by its directors, officers and employees, and by the Company itself, which the Company believes is reasonably designed to promote