Company: QLYS
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-015182
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Company: QUALYS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form: DEF 14A
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 in our proxy statement. Availability of Bylaws A copy of our bylaws is available on our website at http://investor.qualys.com. You may also contact our Corporate Secretary at our principal executive offices for a copy of the relevant bylaw provisions regarding the requirements for making stockholder proposals and nominating director candidates.

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Our business affairs are managed under the direction of our board of directors, which is currently composed of six members, five of whom are “independent” under the Nasdaq Stock Market listing standards. Our board of directors is divided into three staggered classes of directors. At each annual meeting of stockholders, a class of directors will be elected for a three-year term to succeed the same class whose term is then expiring. Each director’s term continues until the election and qualification of his successor, or his earlier death, resignation, or removal. Any increase or decrease in the number of directors will be distributed among the three classes so that, as nearly as possible, each class will consist of one-third of the directors. This classification of our board of directors may have the effect of delaying or preventing changes in control of our company.

| Class I Directors                         
 (Term Expires at the 2025 Annual Meeting) |     | Class II Directors                        
 (Term Expires at the 2026 Annual Meeting) |     | Class III Directors                       
 (Term Expires at the 2027 Annual Meeting) |
| Thomas P. Berquist                        |     | Wendy M. Pfeiffer                         |     | Jeffrey P. Hank                           |
| Kristi M. Rogers                          |     | John A. Zangardi                          |     | Sumedh S. Thakar                          |

The following table sets forth the names, ages as of April 23, 2025, and certain other information for each of the nominees for election as a director and for each of the continuing members of our board of directors.

| Name                            |     | Independent |     | Director 
    Since |     | Age |     |      Other 
 Public Co. 
     Boards |     | Audit     
 & Risk    
 Committee |     | Compensation 
 & Talent     
 Committee    |     | Nominating   
 & Governance 
 Committee    |
| Nominees for Director           |     |             |     |          |     |     |     |            |     |           |     |              |     |              |
| Thomas P. Berquist              |     | ✔           |     |