Company: KITTW
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001849820-25-000115
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Company: Nauticus Robotics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form: PRE 14A
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 legal counsel or other adviser and will be directly responsible for the appointment, compensation and oversight of the work of any such adviser. However, before engaging or receiving advice from a compensation consultant, external legal counsel or any other adviser, the Compensation Committee will consider the independence of each such adviser, including the factors required by Nasdaq and the SEC.

#### Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
We have established a Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of the Board of Directors. The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee is responsible for monitoring compliance with good corporate governance standards and overseeing the selection of persons to be nominated to serve on our Board of Directors. The current members of our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee are Dr. Bellingham, Mr. Flores and Mr. Spiro, with Dr. Bellingham serving as the chairman of the Committee. Our Board of Directors has determined that Dr. Bellingham, Mr. Flores and Mr. Spiro are each independent under applicable Nasdaq and SEC rules.

In recommending persons to be nominated to serve on our Board of Directors the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee takes into account the nominees’ experience, their expertise, their ethics and standards, and the diversity of views that the candidates represent.

We have adopted a Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee charter, which details the principal functions of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, including:

• Reviewing, assessing and making recommendations to the Board regarding qualifications, expertise and characteristics of Board members;

• Establishing procedures for the submission of candidates for election to the Board;

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• Conducting a period review of succession planning for executive management;

• Reviewing and making recommendations to the Board regarding composition, organization and governance of the Board and its committees;

• Developing and recommending to the Board corporate governance guidelines and periodically reviewing their application;

• Overseeing governance matters;

• Overseeing the evaluation of the performance of the Board and its committees;

• Overseeing cybersecurity risk; and

• Administering policies and procedures for communication with the non-management members of the Board.

#### Committee Charters
The charters adopted for the Audit, Compensation and Nominating and Governance Committees are available on our website, www.nauticusrobotics.com. These charters describe each committee’s resources, responsibilities and authority in greater detail. The information on our website is not part of this Proxy Statement.

#### Director Independence
Nasdaq, the SEC and our Corporate Governance Guidelines require that that a majority of our directors, and