Company: APCXW
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001683168-25-002670
Chunk: 7

Company: AppTech Payments Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 7
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 the Annual Meeting, unless otherwise marked on the proxy card or ballot, respectively. A broker non-vote or a properly executed proxy
(or ballot) marked WITHHOLD ALL with respect to the election of a Class I director will not be voted with respect to directors. However,
it will be counted to determine whether there is a quorum.

<div align='center'>THE BOARD UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDS A VOTE “FOR ALL” ON THE ELECTION OF THOMAS J. KOZLOWSKI, JR. AND CALVIN D. WALSH TO THE BOARD.</div>

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<div align='center'>CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

BOARD OF DIRECTORS</div>

Continuing Directors Not Standing for Election

Certain information about
those directors whose terms do not expire at the Annual Meeting and who will otherwise continue to serve on the Board is furnished below,
including their business experience, director positions held currently or at any time during the last five years, involvement in certain
legal or administrative proceedings, if applicable, and the experiences, qualifications, attributes or skills that caused the nominating
and corporate governance committee and the Board to determine that the directors should serve as one of our directors. The age of each
director as of the record date is provided in the following table.

| Name              |     | Age |     | Positions and Offices Held with Company          |     | Director Timeline |
| Luke D’Angelo     |     |  56 |     | Director; Chairman of the Board                  |     | Since 2013        |
| Virgilio Llapitan |     |  64 |     | Director; President and Chief Operations Officer |     | Since 2020        |
| Albert L. Lord    |     |  79 |     | Director; Compensation Committee Chair           |     | Since 2024        |

Luke D’Angelohas served as
Chairman of the Board since 2013. Mr. D'Angelo also served as the Company's Chief Executive Officer from 2013 to 2017 and from December
2019 to December 2024. Mr. D'Angelo has over 25 years of experience in real estate, investment banking, venture capital, and commercial
operations. In 2006, he founded a merchant services company, Transcendent One, Inc., which became an Inc. 500 fastest-growing company,
ranked at #105. Mr. D'Angelo's company was the