Company: IPAR
Filing Date: 2025-07-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001753926-25-001189
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Company: INTERPARFUMS INC
Filing Date: 2025-07-28
Form: DEF 14A
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, we presently have one (1) member who self-identifies as a female and white, and one (1) male member who identifies as Hispanic and white (two or more races or ethnicities). The members of our Board of Directors are each elected with a plurality of votes cast in favor of their election for a one-year term or until their successors are elected and qualify. With the exception of Philippe Benacin, the officers are elected annually by the directors and serve at the discretion of the Board of Directors. There are no family relationships between executive officers or directors of our Company. All nine (9) incumbent directors, Jean Madar, Philippe Benacin, Michel Atwood, Philippe Santi, Francois Heilbronn, Robert Bensoussan, Veronique Gabai-Pinsky, Gilbert Harrison and Gerard Kappauf, were elected at our annual meeting held in September 202 4 , and all are all put forth as nominees for election to the Board of Directors. In addition, our Board of Directors is proposing to expand the number of our directors from nine (9) to eleven (11), by the add ition of two (2) new director nominees , Messrs. Patrick Bousquet-Chavanne and Herve Bouillonnec . Unless authority is withheld, the proxies in the accompanying form will be voted in favor of the election of the nominees named above as directors. Although all of the nominees have indicated their willingness to serve if elected, if at the time of the meeting, any nominee is unable or unwilling to serve, then the shares represented by properly executed proxies will be voted at the discretion of the person named in the proxies for another person designated by our Board of Directors. Business Experience The following sets forth biographical information as to the business experience of each nominee for director of our Company for at least the past five years.

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Jean Madar Jean Madar, age 64, a Director, has been the Chairman of the Board since our Company’s inception, and is a co-founder of our Company with Mr. Philippe Benacin. From inception until December 1993, he was the President of our Company; in January 1994, he became Director General of Interparfums SA, our Company’s subsidiary; and in January 1997, he became Chief Executive Officer of our Company. Mr. Madar was previously the managing director of Interparfums SA, from September 1983 until June 1985. At such subsidiary, he had the