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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 the board of directors of Akamai Technologies, Inc., a leading content delivery network and cloud services provider. Dr. Moore currently serves on the boards of Phaidra.ai and WorkFusion. Dr. Moore received a B.A. in literature from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in literature from the University of Washington.                                     
 We believe Dr. Moore’s experience as a strategic advisor, market development consultant, and organizational design consultant, as well as his public company board experience, qualifies him to serve on our board.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |     | 2012 |

#### Director Independence
Under the rules of the Nasdaq Stock Market, independent directors must comprise a majority of a listed company's board of directors. In addition, the rules of the Nasdaq Stock Market require that, subject to specified exceptions, each member of a listed company's audit, compensation and nominating and corporate governance committees must be independent. Under the rules of the Nasdaq Stock Market, a director will only qualify as an “independent director” if, in the opinion of that company's board of directors, that person does not have a relationship that would interfere with the exercise of independent judgment in carrying out the responsibilities of a director.

Audit committee members must also satisfy the independence criteria set forth in Rule 10A-3 under the Exchange Act. To be considered independent for purposes of Rule 10A-3, a member of an audit committee of a listed company may not, other than in his or her capacity as a member of the audit committee, the board of directors or any other board committee: (i) accept, directly or indirectly, any consulting, advisory or other compensatory fee from the listed company or any of its subsidiaries or (ii) be an affiliated person of the listed company or any of its subsidiaries.

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Our board of directors has undertaken a review of its composition, the composition of its committees and the independence of our directors and considered whether any director has a material relationship with us that could compromise his or her ability to exercise independent judgment in carrying out his or her responsibilities. Our board of directors considered relationships and all other facts and circumstances deemed relevant in determining independence, including the beneficial ownership of our capital stock by each non-employee director. In connection with its review and determination that Ms. Nichols is not independent, our board of directors considered Ms. Nichols’ employment as Interim President of nLIGHT DEFENSE Systems, Inc., our wholly owned subsidiary, from April