Company: AWRE
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-058702
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Company: AWARE INC /MA/
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
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 and such candidate’s compliance with the independence and other qualification requirements established by the committee or imposed by applicable law or listing standards. The committee also develops and recommends to the Board governance principles applicable to the Company and is responsible for leading an annual review of the performance of both the Board as a whole and its individual members. The annual Board review took place in October 2024.

The board of directors, upon the recommendation of the nominating and corporate governance committee, has nominated for election at the 2025 annual meeting of stockholders as Class II directors Brent P. Johnstone and John S. Stafford, III, each of whom is currently a Class II director of Aware. In nominating Mr. Johnstone, the board and committee took into account Mr. Johnstone’s over 25 years’ experience in the investment and financial services industries and his expertise in finance. In nominating Mr. Stafford, the board and committee took into account Mr. Stafford’s investing experience, his experience as a member of other boards of directors, and the fact that, as one of our most significant stockholders, his and our stockholders’ interests in the success of Aware are aligned.

#### Policy regarding

#### board attendance
To the extent reasonably practicable, directors are expected to attend board meetings and meetings of committees on which they serve. Last year, one of our directors attended the annual meeting.

#### Communications with o

#### ur board of directors
Our board of directors has established the following process for stockholders to communicate directly with the board, and this process has been approved by a majority of our independent directors. Stockholders wishing to communicate with the board of directors should send correspondence to the attention of the Chairman of the Board at Aware, Inc., 76 Blanchard Road Burlington, Massachusetts 01803, and should include with the correspondence evidence that the sender of the communication is one of our stockholders. Satisfactory evidence would include, for example, contemporaneous correspondence from a brokerage firm indicating the

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identity of the stockholder and the number of shares held. Our chairman will review all correspondence confirmed to be from stockholders and decide whether or not to forward the correspondence or a summary of the correspondence to the board or a committee of the board. Accordingly, our chairman will review all stockholder correspondence, but the decision to relay that correspondence to the board or a committee of the board will rest entirely within his discretion.

#### Code of

#### ethics
We have adopted a code of ethics that applies to all employees