Company: SWKH
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-020718
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Company: SWK Holdings Corp
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: DEF 14A
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The Board has determined that Ms. Dotter is qualified to serve on the Board due to her extensive financial and investment experience.

#### Robert K. Hatcher.
Mr. Hatcher, age 62, has served as Chairman and CEO of Equitime Capital LLC since October 2022. He served as the Executive Chairman of Avalon Advisors LLC from February 2020 until October 2022. He also serves in various advisory capacities, including as a Senior Advisor at Ecliptic Capital since November 2022. From 2001 to 2019, Mr. Hatcher also served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Cockrell Interests, LLC. He also served as President and CEO at Pinto Investment Partners LP and Pinto Trust Company and as Chairman of the Finance Advisory Committee for PTV Healthcare Capital and Pinto America Growth Fund. Prior to his position at Cockrell Interests, LLC, Mr. Hatcher founded and served as Managing Director of Citywest Ventures. He also serves on the Board and Executive Committee of Camp Aranzazu, as well as on the Board of Rex Medical LP. Mr. Hatcher served as an Adjunct Professor at the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University and is a member of World Presidents’ Organization and Chief Executives Organization. Mr. Hatcher holds an M.B.A. and J.D. from Tulane University, as well as a B.B.A. from Southern Methodist University.

The Board has determined that Mr. Hatcher is qualified to serve on the Board due to his extensive financial and investment experience.

The Board of Directors unanimously recommends a vote

#### FOR

#### the election of the director nominees.

#### Board and Annual Meeting Attendance
The Board met eleven times in 2024. During 2024, each director attended at least 75% of the meetings of the Board and committees of the Board on which such director served since the date of his or her appointment. Each director is expected to attend the Annual Meeting and each director at such time also attended the Company’s last annual meeting.

#### Independence
The Board has adopted the definitions, standards and exceptions to the standards for evaluating director independence provided in The Nasdaq Stock Market rules and determined that each of Mr. Albright, Ms. Dotter and Mr. Hatcher are independent under the rules of The Nasdaq Stock Market. In addition, Marcus Pennington, who resigned from the Board effective October 1,