Company: OCC
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001437749-25-004188
Chunk: 5

Company: OPTICAL CABLE CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 5
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 filing with the Corporate Secretary of the Company a written notice of revocation or a duly executed proxy bearing a later date, or by voting in person at the annual meeting. The Company’s Common Shares represented by executed and unrevoked proxies will be voted in accordance with the choice or instructions specified thereon. If no specifications are given, the shares represented thereby will be voted as follows:

FOR the five 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;

FOR the Second Amendment to the 2017 Stock Incentive Plan, to authorize an additional 350,000 new Common Shares of the Company for issuance under the 2017 Plan, with no other modifications to the terms of the existing 2017 Plan;

FOR the ratification of Crowe LLP as the independent registered public accounting firm for the Company;

FOR the approval, on a non-binding advisory basis, of the compensation paid to our named executive officers;

FOR the approval, on a non-binding advisory basis, of holding an annual advisory vote on executive compensation; and

in accordance with the best judgment of the Board of Directors on any other matters which may properly come before the annual meeting.

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Record Date, Voting Procedures, Quorum, Abstentions, and Broker Voting

Only shareholders of record at the close of business on January 24, 2025 (the “record date”) are entitled to notice of and to vote at the annual meeting. As of the record date, 8,220,344 Common Shares were issued and outstanding. Each Common Share is entitled to one vote on all matters that may properly come before the annual meeting.

A majority of votes entitled to be cast on a particular matter, represented in person or by proxy, constitutes a quorum for purposes of the annual meeting. Once a Common Share is represented for any purpose at a meeting, it is deemed present for quorum purposes for the remainder of the meeting and any adjournment thereof, unless a new record date is set for the adjournment. Abstentions will be counted in determining the existence of a quorum, but Common Shares held by a broker, as nominee, and not voted on any matter will not be counted for such purpose.

| Voting Matter                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |     | Voting Standard                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| Election of five directors.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |     | Plurality, which means the five persons receiving the most votes cast