Company: GCTS
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-102009
Chunk: 22

Company: GCT Semiconductor Holding, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 22
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. Kyeongho Lee to serve as Chairman of the Board. Our Board is divided into three classes with staggered three-year terms. Only one class of directors will be elected at each annual stockholders’ meeting, with the other classes continuing for the remainder of their respective three-year terms. Upon the expiration of the term of a class of directors, a director in that class will be eligible to be elected for a new three-year term at the annual stockholders’ meeting in the year in which their term expires. Our directors are divided among the three classes as follows:

| Director         |     | Class |     | Term Expires at the Annual Stockholders’ Meeting in This Year |
| Dr. Kukjin Chun  |     | I     |     |                                                          2025 |
| Nelson C. Chan   |     | I     |     |                                                          2025 |
| Robert Barker    |     | II    |     |                                                          2026 |
| Hyunsoo Shin     |     | II    |     |                                                          2026 |
| John Schlaefer   |     | III   |     |                                                          2027 |
| Jeff Tuder       |     | III   |     |                                                          2027 |
| Dr. Kyeongho Lee |     | III   |     |                                                          2027 |

Board Meetings Our Board held seven meetings during 2024. Board and Committee Meeting Attendance During 2024, each director attended at least 75% of the meetings of the Board and the committees on which the director served. Under our Corporate Governance Guidelines, directors are expected to regularly attend meetings of the Board and committees on which the director sits and to review prior to meetings material distributed in advance for the meetings. Attendance at Annual Meeting All directors are encouraged to attend our annual meeting of stockholders. This Annual Meeting is the first annual meeting of stockholders to be held by the Company since the consummation of the Business Combination that formed the Company and the election of the current Board. Communication with Directors Stockholders and other interested parties who wish to communicate with our Board as a whole, Chairman of the Board, or independent directors as a group may do so by submitting the communication in writing to our Board, c/o our Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary. All communications are opened and reviewed, and communications that relate to matters that are within the scope of the responsibilities of the Board will be forwarded to the Chairman of the Board, or independent directors as a group, as applicable. If the correspondence