Company: KVHI
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-040173
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Company: KVH INDUSTRIES INC \DE\
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: DEF 14A
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 need to complete and mail your proxy card. If you plan to attend the meeting and vote in person, we will provide you with a ballot at the meeting. If your shares are registered directly in your name, you are considered the stockholder of record and you have the right to vote in person at the meeting. If your shares are held in the name of your broker or other nominee, you are considered the beneficial owner of the shares held in street name. If you wish to vote shares held in street name at the meeting, you will need to bring with you to the meeting a legal proxy from your broker or other nominee authorizing you to vote your shares. What constitutes a quorum? What is a broker “non-vote”? A quorum must be present in order for business to be conducted at the annual meeting. Our by-laws provide that a quorum consists of a majority of the shares of common stock outstanding and entitled to vote at the annual meeting. Shares of common stock represented by a properly signed and returned proxy card (including shares properly voted by telephone or on the Internet) will be treated as present at the annual meeting for purposes of determining the existence of a quorum at the annual meeting. Abstentions and broker “non-votes” are counted as present or represented for

5 KVH Industries, Inc. 2025 Proxy Statement

TABLE OF CONTENTS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS AND VOTING purposes of determining the existence of a quorum at the annual meeting. A “non-vote” occurs when a broker or nominee holding shares for a beneficial owner returns a proxy card but does not vote that owner’s shares on a proposal because the broker or nominee does not have discretionary voting power and has not received instructions from that owner. What vote is required for approval? A majority of the votes properly cast at the annual meeting will be necessary to elect two Class II directors to a three-year term (proposal 1), to approve, on an advisory (non-binding) basis, the compensation of our named executive officers for 2024 (proposal 2), and to approve the ratification of the appointment of Grant Thornton LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for 2025 (proposal 3). A majority of the votes properly cast at the annual meeting will be necessary to approve any other matter that may be properly acted upon at the annual meeting. For more information on majority voting for the election of directors, please see “Board of Directors and Committees of