Company: BHE
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-051057
Chunk: 58

Company: BENCHMARK ELECTRONICS INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 58
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,161 shares and (ii) holds such shares in its capacity as investment advisor. The address of Dimensional Fund Advisors LP is 6300 Bee Cave Road, Building One, Austin, TX 78746.

According to a January 27, 2025 Schedule 13G filing: (i) Franklin Mutual Advisers, LLC has sole power to vote or direct the vote of 1,758,903 shares and sole power to dispose or direct the disposition of 1,872,213 shares and (ii) holds such shares in its capacity as investment advisor. The address of Franklin Mutual Advisers, LLC is 101 John F. Kennedy Parkway, Short Hills, NJ 07078-2789.

| 48  Benchmark. Benchmark Electronics, Inc. • 2025 Proxy Statement |

<div align='center'>PROPOSAL 3 — RATIFICATION OF APPOINTMENT OF
INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM</div>

The Audit Committeedetermined that the appointment of KPMG is in the best interest of the Company and its shareholders and has appointed KPMG as the independent public accounting firm of the Company for the year ending December 31, 2025. Shareholders will be asked to ratify the appointment of KPMG at the Meeting. Ratification will require the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding Common Shares entitled to vote and present, in person or represented by proxy, at the Meeting. The current engagement partner has been in his role on the Company's account since March 2022. Representatives of KPMG will be present at the Meeting, will be given an opportunity to make a statement if they desire to do so, and will be available to respond to appropriate questions.

| ✓ |     | The Board of Directors recommends a vote FOR the proposal to ratify the appointment of the independent registered public accounting firm. |

| 49  Benchmark. Benchmark Electronics, Inc.     •    2025 Proxy Statement |

#### AUDIT COMMITTEE REPORT
Management is responsible for the Company’s financial reporting process, as well as the design and maintenance of systems of internal accounting and financial controls. The Audit Committee is responsible for providing independent, objective oversight of management’s conduct of the reporting process and the accounting and control systems. The committee operates under a written charter approved by the Board and met 8 times during 2024. The committee’s meetings are designed to facilitate and encourage communication between members of the committee and management, private communication between committee members and