Company: SWKH
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form Type: DEFR14A
Source: 0001628280-25-021125
Chunk: 12

Company: SWK Holdings Corp
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form: DEFR14A
Chunk 12
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 Nominating Committee during 2024 were Mr. Albright, Mr. Hatcher (Chair) and Mr. Pennington. Mr. Pennington resigned from the Board effective October 1, 2024.

The Governance and Nominating Committee met one time in 2024. Mr. Albright and Mr. Hatcher each meet the independence and other requirements to serve on our Governance and Nominating Committee under The Nasdaq Stock Market Rules and the rules of the SEC. As discussed above, due to his relationship with Carlson, Mr. Pennington did not meet the applicable Nasdaq independence requirements for service on the Governance and Nominating Committee. Mr. Pennington served on the Governance and Nominating Committee in reliance on the controlled company exemption under applicable Nasdaq rules. Please see the section above entitled “Controlled Company” for more information.

The Board has adopted a written charter for the Governance and Nominating Committee, a copy of which is posted in the Corporate Governance section of our Internet website (at www.swkhold.com ). The Governance and Nominating Committee considers the performance of the members of the Board and nominees for director positions and evaluates and oversees corporate governance and related issues.

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The goal of the Governance and Nominating Committee is to ensure that the members of the Board possess a variety of perspectives and skills derived from high-quality business and professional experience. The Governance and Nominating Committee seeks to achieve a balance of knowledge, experience and capability on the Board. To this end, the Governance and Nominating Committee seeks nominees with the highest professional and personal ethics and values, an understanding of our business and industry, diversity of business experience and expertise, a high level of education, broad-based business acumen and the ability to think strategically. Although the Governance and Nominating Committee uses these and other criteria to evaluate potential nominees to the Board, it has no stated minimum criteria for such nominees. The Governance and Nominating Committee does not use different standards to evaluate nominees depending on whether they are proposed by our directors and management or by our stockholders. To date, we have not paid any third parties to assist us in this process.

The Governance and Nominating Committee will consider stockholder recommendations for director candidates. The Governance and Nominating Committee has established the following procedure for stockholders to submit such recommendations for which there has been no material change: the stockholder should send the name of the individual and related personal and professional information,