Company: GCTS
Filing Date: 2025-07-25
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-098780
Chunk: 30

Company: GCT Semiconductor Holding, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-07-25
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 30
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 believes that candidates and director nominees must result in a Board comprised of directors who are predominantly independent, possess high personal and professional ethics and integrity, have qualifications that will increase overall Board effectiveness, meet requirements of applicable rules and regulations, such as financial literacy or financial expertise with respect to Audit Committee members, and are willing and able to represent the best interests of all stockholders of GCT. Currently, our Board evaluates each individual in the context of the Board as a whole with the objective of assembling a group that can best maximize the success of the business and represent stockholder interests through the exercise of sound judgment using its diversity of experience in these various areas.

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In recommending candidates for nomination, our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee considers candidates recommended by directors, officers, employees, stockholders, and others. Our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee has authority under its charter to retain a search firm for identifying potential director candidates. Our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee will consider suggestions by stockholders of potential director candidates and does not intend to alter its criteria for evaluating potential director candidates, including the criteria described above, in the case of director candidates recommended by stockholders. Stockholders may recommend individuals to our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee for consideration as potential director candidates by submitting the names of the individuals, together with appropriate biographical information and background materials to our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, c/o Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary, 2290 North 1st Street, Suite 201 San Jose, California 95131.

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Certain Relationships andRelated Person Transactions</div>

Related Party Transactions Policy

We have adopted a related party transactions policy (included in our Audit Committee Charter) that sets forth our procedures for the identification, review, consideration, and approval or ratification of related party transactions, which complies with NYSE rules on the review and approval of related party transactions.

Related-Person Transactions

Below is a description of transactions since January 1, 2023, to which the Company was a party and in which (i) the amount involved exceeded or is expected to exceed $120,000, and (ii) any of our directors, executive officers, holders of more than 5% of our capital stock, or any member of their immediate family or household, had or will have a direct or indirect material interest.

Concord III Transactions and Agreements

Unless the context otherwise requires, all references in this section to “we,” “us