Company: KITTW
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001849820-25-000115
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Company: Nauticus Robotics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form: PRE 14A
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 served as a director on our Board since 2022 and chair of our Compensation Committee since 2024. He is a Founder and Managing Partner at Material Impact, a unique venture fund that focuses on investing in and building successful companies with novel products based on innovations in the underlying material, hardware, and manufactured goods technologies, since January 2016. He additionally serves as member of the Board of Directors for over a dozen private companies. Before starting Material Impact, Dr. Sharkawy held a series of executive operating roles in publicly traded healthcare companies. These include Sr. Vice President of the Medicines Company and Head of their Surgery and Perioperative Care Global Business Unit, Executive Leadership Team Member of Abbott Vascular, and Senior Leadership team member of Smith and Nephew. Prior to his large corporate roles, Dr. Sharkawy was an entrepreneur and was involved in the foundation and exit of several venture-funded companies. Dr. Sharkawy has also been a consultant to or on the Advisory Board of companies spanning industries such as aerospace, oil & gas, battery, and medical device. Dr. Sharkawy holds a Ph.D. from Duke University in Biomaterials / Biomedical Engineering. He also holds a M.S. from Texas A&M University from the Institute of Innovation and Design in Engineering. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the American University, Cairo and before that, studied pre-medicine and Biology at the Honors Program at the University of Delaware. He is a scientific inventor and holds 23 issued U.S. patents and numerous international patents.

| Eli Spiro |     |                     |     | Age: 53 |
|           |     | Director since 2022 |     |         |

Mr. Spiro has served as a director on our Board since 2022. Mr. Spiro has over 28 years of capital markets experience. Mr. Spiro is currently a Venture Partner with Plaza Ventures, a Toronto based VC firm with a focus on private company secondary market transactions. From 2010 until 2023, Mr. Spiro served as the Chief Executive Officer of Axxcess Capital Partners, a boutique investment banking firm he co-founded. At Axxcess, Mr. Spiro closed over $1.5 billion of transactions since inception. He was involved in a number of transactions in the clean energy space including his role as President of Axxcess Energy Group, investing in a business applying proprietary technology to reduce energy expenses. Mr. Spiro was also involved in the development of an organic, hydro