Company: RPID
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001380106-25-000089
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Company: RAPID MICRO BIOSYSTEMS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form: DEF 14A
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 program in health administration and policy from the University of Chicago. We believe that Mr. Kollender’s knowledge of our company and experience in the life sciences industry qualify him to serve on our Board.

| NATALE RICCIARDI |     | Age 76 |

Natale Ricciardi has served as a member of our Board since March 2016. Mr. Ricciardi spent his entire 39-year career at Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) ("Pfizer"), a biopharmaceutical company, retiring in 2011 as a member of the Pfizer Executive Leadership Team. While holding the positions of President, Pfizer Global Manufacturing, and Senior Vice President of Pfizer, from 2004 until 2011, Mr. Ricciardi was directly responsible for all of Pfizer’s internal and external supply organization and global manufacturing activities. Previously, from 1999 to 2004, he had oversight for Pfizer’s U.S. manufacturing operations and from 1995 to 1999 was Vice President of Manufacturing for Pfizer’s Animal Health Group. Mr. Ricciardi served on the board of directors of Dynavax Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: NVAX) from June 2013 to May 2023 and Prestige Consumer Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE: PBH) from May 2016 to August 2024 and currently serves on the Senior Advisory Board of Healthcare Royalty Partners. Mr. Ricciardi holds an M.B.A. in Finance and International Business from Fordham University and a Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical Engineering from The City College of New York. We believe that Mr. Ricciardi’s extensive experience at Pfizer and his experience serving on boards of various life sciences companies qualify him to serve on our Board. 16

TABLE OF CONTENTS CLASS III DIRECTORS (TERMS TO EXPIRE AT THE 2027 ANNUAL MEETING) The current members of the Board who are Class III Directors are as follows:

| Name                  |     |    Served as a 
 Director Since |     | Positions with Rapid Micro Biosystems           |
| Kirk D. Malloy, Ph.D. |     |           2023 |     | Director, Chair                                 |
| Melinda Litherland    |     |           2021 |     | Director                                        |
| Robert Spignesi       |     |           2014 |     | Director, President and Chief Executive Officer |

The principal occupations and business experience, for at least the past five years, of