Company: BHE
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-051057
Chunk: 19

Company: BENCHMARK ELECTRONICS INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form: DEF 14A
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 and cybersecurity. The Audit Committee also receives an annual risk assessment report from the Company’s internal auditor and quarterly reports on identified risk areas. The Audit Committee also has oversight of compliance with legal and regulatory requirements and ethical standards and evaluates the qualifications and independence of the Company’s outside auditors. The Audit Committee also receives quarterly cybersecurity updates from the Company’s Chief Digital & Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer.

| 17  Benchmark. Benchmark Electronics, Inc.     •    2025 Proxy Statement |

#### PROPOSAL 1 — ELECTION OF DIRECTORS
The Human Capital and Compensation Committee is responsible for overseeing the Company’s human capital practices and management compensation philosophy, including incentive compensation and equity-based plans for executives. The Committee also reviews and makes recommendations on executive and director compensation as informed by engagement with shareholders and its third-party compensation consultant. The Nominating, Sustainability and Governance Committee is responsible for identifying and recommending to the Board individuals qualified to become Board members and makes recommendations to the Board concerning committee appointments. In assessing the appropriate composition of the Board, the Nominating, Sustainability and Governance Committee believes that directors should reflect diversity in the broadest sense, including geography, gender, ethnicity, viewpoint, education, skills, and professional experience. The Nominating, Sustainability and Governance Committee also has direct oversight over the Company’s sustainability policies and programs, including reviewing and evaluating its ESG plans and practices.

The Board held five meetings during 2024. Each director attended at least 75% of the total meetings of the Board and committees on which they served. Mr. Benck, who served as President and CEO and director of the Company, did not vote in committee meetings or participate in portions of Human Capital and Compensation Committee meetings that determined, or Board meetings that ratified, his compensation. The non-employee directors regularly meet in executive session without members of management present. These sessions are typically held either before or after the Board’s regularly scheduled Board and committee meetings with the Board Chair or respective committee chairs presiding. Additional executive sessions can be scheduled at the request of the non-employee directors.

Each of the Audit, Human Capital and Compensation, and Nominating, Sustainability and Governance Committees operates under a written charter approved by the Board, which can be found on our website atwww.bench.comunder “Investors—Corporate Governance.” The committee members and the number of committee meetings held in 2024, was as follows:

| Director              |     | Audit |       |     | Human Capital and Compensation |     | Nominating