Company: ZEUS
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001437749-25-009843
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Company: OLYMPIC STEEL INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 5
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<div align='center'>VOTING SECURITIES</div>

The Board has established the close of business on March 10, 2025, as the record date for determining shareholders entitled to notice of the Annual Meeting and to vote. On that date, 11,162,704 shares of Common Stock were outstanding and entitled to one vote per share on all matters properly brought before the Annual Meeting.

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PROPOSAL ONE

ELECTION OF DIRECTORS</div>

The Board is divided into two classes, whose members serve for a staggered, two-year term. The term of one class, which currently consists of four Directors, expires at the 2026 Annual Meeting; the term of the other class, which currently consists of the five Director nominees, expires at the 2027 Annual Meeting.

The Board has nominated Michael D. Siegal, Arthur F. Anton, Richard T. Marabito, Peter J. Scott and Vanessa L. Whiting, to be elected as Directors for a two-year term. The two-year term will end upon the election of Directors at the 2027 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. Mr. Michael G. Rippey, whose term expires at the Annual Meeting, has not been nominated for re-election. Mr. Scott was recommended to the Nominating and Governance Committee for election to the Board by the Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.

At the Annual Meeting, the shares of Common Stock represented by valid proxies, unless otherwise specified, will be voted to elect the Director nominees. Each individual nominated for election as a Director of the Company has agreed to serve if elected. However, if any nominee becomes unable or unwilling to serve if elected, the proxies will be voted for the election of such other person as may be recommended by the Board. The Board has no reason to believe that the persons listed as nominees will be unable or unwilling to serve.

Directors will be elected by a majority of the votes cast at the Annual Meeting, subject to our majority voting policy described below under “Corporate Governance.” Abstentions and broker non-votes do not count as votes cast. Accordingly, abstentions and broker non-votes will have no effect in determining the outcome of the vote on the election of Directors. Certain information regarding each of the Company’s current Directors and Director nominees, including his or her principal occupation and directorships during