Company: ADAMM
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001273685-25-000038
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Company: ADAMAS TRUST, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: DEF 14A
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 risk oversight and urged the Board of Directors to continue challenging management on both strategy and risk management to safeguard the Company’s long-term success. We maintain regular engagement with our Board of Directors through meetings and other communications that address both short-term objectives and long-term goals, ensuring that risks are carefully considered within the broader context of our strategic planning and execution. Additionally, we provide consistent updates to our Board of Directors regarding risk mitigation efforts, shifts in the risk landscape, and the ongoing performance of our risk management strategies.

Stockholder Outreach Program

In addition to our routine stockholder communications, our enhanced outreach program encompasses strategic engagement through the Proxy Statement, Annual Meeting and Stockholder Engagement as delineated below. These phases collectively represent opportunities to augment stockholder engagement, transparency, and alignment with our primary stakeholders' interests. By leveraging diverse communication channels, we aim to cultivate substantive dialogue and fortify relationships with our stockholders.

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#### Proxy Statement
The Proxy Statement not only fulfills regulatory obligations but also serves as a platform to highlight our governance practices, executive compensation policies, and corporate responsibility initiatives. Through the use of comprehensive disclosure that explains or provides our rationale for our various decisions, policies and programs, we aim to reinforce transparency and accountability with our stockholders.

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#### Annual Meeting
The Annual Meeting represents a pivotal event wherein stockholders and companies convene to deliberate on significant corporate governance, executive compensation, and other matters. Beyond voting on specific matters on the meeting's agenda, it provides a platform for stockholders to directly communicate views and concerns to leadership.

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#### Stockholder Engagement
As a proactive initiative, Stockholder Engagement entails comprehensive outreach to and engagement with stockholders to facilitate further clarification of stockholder concerns regarding corporate governance, executive compensation, and corporate responsibility matters. Tailored outreach to key stockholders ensures personalized attention, while feedback garnered during this period informs future decision-making, aligning corporate initiatives with stockholder expectations where appropriate.

We believe that good governance includes maintaining a consistent and transparent dialogue with our stockholders and that understanding the perspectives and interests of stockholders, and sharing that information with our Board of Directors, helps contribute to the Company’s long-term success . We continue to engage in stockholder outreach through various engagement channels and solicit feedback on our executive officer compensation program and other topics. We are committed to engaging with our stockholders on a regular basis and incorporating their comments and addressing their concerns regarding our operations when and as appropriate.

NEO Compensation Program Objectives for 2024

The Compensation Committee of our