Company: OCC
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001437749-25-004188
Chunk: 1

Company: OPTICAL CABLE CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 1
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2017 Plan; |

| (3) | ratify the appointment of Crowe LLP as the independent registered public accounting firm for the Company for fiscal year 2025; |

| (4) | approve, on a non-binding advisory basis, the compensation paid to our named executive officers; and |

| (5) | vote, on a non-binding advisory basis, on the frequency of future advisory votes on named executive officer compensation. |

We also will be pleased to report on the affairs of the Company.

Whether or not you are able to attend, it is important that your shares be represented and voted at this meeting. Submitting the proxy before the annual meeting will not preclude you from voting in person at the annual meeting if you should decide to attend. Your prompt response would be greatly appreciated.

| Sincerely,                            |
| Neil D. Wilkin, Jr.                   |
| Chairman of the Board of Directors,   |
| President and Chief Executive Officer |

YOUR VOTE IS IMPORTANT

Even if you plan to attend the meeting, please make sure to vote. You may vote by one of the following methods: (1) completing, signing and returning promptly the enclosed proxy in the envelope provided; (2) going online tohttp://www.proxyvote.com, as appropriate, and following the online instructions or (3) in person if you so desire even if you have previously sent in your proxy or voted online. Please note that the method by which you vote last will be the vote the Company counts.

<div align='center'>OPTICAL CABLE CORPORATION

Notice of Annual Meeting of Shareholders

March 25, 2025</div>

TO THE SHAREHOLDERS:

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the annual meeting of shareholders of Optical Cable Corporation, a Virginia corporation (the “Company” or “OCC®”), is scheduled to be held on Tuesday, March 25, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. local time at the Green Ridge Recreation Center, 7415 Wood Haven Road, Roanoke, Virginia for the following purposes:

| 1. | to elect five directors from the slate of directors nominated in accordance with the Company’s bylaws to serve until the next annual meeting of shareholders and until their successors are duly elected and qualified; |

| 2. | to approve the Second Amendment (the “Second Amendment”) to the Optical Cable Corporation 2017 Stock Incentive Plan, as amended (the “2017 Plan” or the “2017 Stock In