Company: DMRC
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001437749-25-009135
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Company: Digimarc CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form: DEF 14A
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 shareholder community, and address new ways to enhance overall Board and Company operations.

Board Independence

The Board has been, and continues to be, a strong proponent of Board independence. Currently, all our directors other than the Chief Executive Officer, including each member of the Board’s Audit Committee, Compensation and Talent Management Committee, and Governance, Nominating, and Sustainability Committee, are independent directors under the Nasdaq listing rules.

The Board believes that Digimarc’s corporate governance principles and policies ensure that strong and independent directors will continue to effectively oversee Digimarc’s management and key issues related to long-range business plans, long-range strategic matters and risks, and integrity. The following are keys to independent oversight:

| ● | The independent directors meet at regularly scheduled Board meetings, in an executive session chaired by the Chair of the Board without the Chief Executive Officer or other management present. |

| ● | In addition to presiding over these executive sessions, the Chair of the Board serves as the principal liaison between the independent directors and management and determines information to be sent to the Board, meeting agendas, and meeting schedules. |

| ● | Each director is encouraged to suggest items for the Board agenda and to raise at any Board meeting subjects that are not on the agenda for that meeting. |

| ● | The independent Chair of the Board’s significant, clearly delineated duties and responsibilities are highly effective in providing oversight of management and direct accountability to shareholders by ensuring that the Board’s views and directives are communicated to and understood by management. |

| ● | Our corporate governance principles provide that the Board and all Board committees, including those whose members are exclusively independent directors, may seek financial, legal, or other expert advice from a source independent of management, with funding provided by Digimarc. |

Board Committees

The Board of Directors had three standing committees for 2024: an Audit Committee, a Compensation and Talent Management Committee, and a Governance, Nominating, and Sustainability Committee. The current members of these committees as of the date of this proxy statement are set forth in the following table:

<div align='center'>Members of the Board Committees</div>

| Non-Employee Directors     |     | Audit  |     | Governance, Nominating & Sustainability |     | Compensation and Talent Management |
| LaShonda Anderson-Williams |     |        |     | Member                                  |     | Chair                              |
| Sheila Cheston             |     | Member |     | Chair                                   |     | Member                             |
| Sandeep Dadlani            |