Company: ACCS
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000843006-25-000014
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Company: ACCESS Newswire Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form: DEF 14A
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 Wesley T. Pollard  | 54 | 2024 | Chief Financial Officer of Primeritus Financial Services                              | ✓ | AC/CC |
| Joseph A. Staples  | 65 | 2024 | Executive Marketing Consultant; Retired Chief Marketing Consultant of Motivosity Inc, | ✓ | CC*   |
| Brian R. Balbirnie | 53 | 2006 | Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ACCESS Newswire Inc.                           | - | -     |

AC = Audit Committee

CC = Compensation Committee

* = Committee Chair

| PROXY STATEMENT | 2 |

| PROXY STATEMENT |

| Questions and Answers |

► WHY AM I RECEIVING THESE PROXY MATERIALS?

You are receiving these proxy materials because you owned shares of common stock of our company, ACCESS Newswire Inc. (the “Company”), at the close of business on April 17, 2025, and, therefore, are eligible to vote at the Company’s Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held virtually on Friday, June 13, 2025, at 9:00 a.m. ET (the “Annual Meeting”). Our Board of Directors (the “Board”) is soliciting your proxy to vote at the Annual Meeting.

► ON WHAT MATTERS WILL I BE VOTING?

Stockholders of record at the close of business on April 17, 2025 will be entitled to vote on the following proposals:

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 2. | To elect four (4) directors nominated by our Board of Directors as set forth in the proxy statement;                                            
 To ratify the appointment of Cherry Bekaert LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2025; and |
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| 3. | To transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting or any postponement or adjournment thereof.                             |

The Board does not know of any matters to be presented at our Annual Meeting other than those described in this Proxy Statement. However, if any other matters properly come before the meeting or any adjournment thereof, it is the intention of the persons named in the enclosed proxy to vote the shares represented by them in accordance with their best judgment.

►HOW CAN I PARTICIPATE IN THE ANNUAL MEETING?

You can attend the Annual Meeting by accessing the meeting via the URL at and entering in your stockholder information provided on your ballot or proxy information previously mailed to you.

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