Company: NOTV
Filing Date: 2025-01-23
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-002250
Chunk: 17

Company: Inotiv, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-01-23
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 17
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 Directors") for election, by the holders of the Company’s common shares, each to serve as a Class I director of the Company for a term expiring at the 2028 Annual Meeting and until his successor is elected and qualified. Proxies cannot be voted for a greater number of persons than two, the number of nominees named in this proxy statement. If elected, each Nominated Director has consented to serve as a director of the Company.

The Board of Directors recommends that shareholders vote FOR the election of the Nominated Directors .

Unless authority to vote for the Nominated Directors is withheld, the accompanying proxy will be voted FOR the election of the Nominated Directors; however, the persons designated as proxies reserve the right to cast votes for another person designated by the Board of Directors in the event any of the Nominated Directors becomes unable to serve or for any reason will not serve. If a quorum is present, the nominees receiving a plurality of the votes cast will be elected to the Board of Directors.

#### Nominated Directors
Certain information about the Nominated Directors is set forth below.

| Name                   |     | Age |     | Position                                        |     |      Served as 
 Director Since |
| Robert W. Leasure, Jr. |     |  65 |     | President, Chief Executive Officer and Director |     |           2019 |
| R. Matthew Neff        |     |  69 |     | Director                                        |     |           2017 |

#### Business Experience of the Nominated Directors
Robert W. Leasure, Jr. joined the Company as President and Chief Executive Officer and a director on January 12, 2019. Mr. Leasure serves as the managing partner and president of LS Associates LLC (“LS”), a management and turnaround firm formed in 2002. From September 2016 until Mr. Leasure’s employment, the Company engaged LS as a financial consultant. Mr. Leasure’s experience working with management teams in areas including strategic planning and implementation, problem solving, operations, mergers and acquisitions and financial transactions, and in particular Mr. Leasure’s experience leading the Company’s turnaround and current growth, well situate him for his role as President and Chief Executive Officer and as a director. Mr. Leasure’s current term on the Board expires at the 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders.

R. Matthew Neff was elected to the board on August 1, 2017 and was appointed as our Chairman of the Board on March 26,