Company: RPID
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001380106-25-000089
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Company: RAPID MICRO BIOSYSTEMS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form: DEF 14A
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 to being named in this proxy statement and to serve if elected. NOMINEES FOR CLASS I DIRECTORS (CURRENT TERM TO EXPIRE AT THE 2025 ANNUAL MEETING) The nominees for election to the Board as Class I Directors are as follows:

| Name             |     | Age |     | Served as a 
    Director 
       Since |     | Positions with Rapid Micro Biosystems |
| Inese Lowenstein |     |  52 |     |        2021 |     | Director                              |
| Dafni Bika       |     |  60 |     |         N/A |     | Director Nominee                      |

The principal occupations and business experience, for at least the past five years, of the Class I Director nominees, as of April 8, 2025, are as follows:

| INESE LOWENSTEIN |     | Age 52 |

Inese Lowenstein has served as a member of our Board since December 2021. Ms. Lowenstein has over 20 years of business and leadership experience in the life science, diagnostic and high-tech material industries. Ms. Lowenstein served in a part-time role as Senior Talent Advisor to Danaher Corporation (NYSE: DHR) ("Danaher") from April 2021 to March 2022. Prior to her role as Senior Talent Advisor, Ms. Lowenstein was President of SCIEX, a Danaher company, from September 2017 to March 2021, and was Senior Vice President of Global Sales & Service at SCIEX from August 2016 to September 2017. Prior to joining SCIEX, she held roles of increasing responsibility at Merck KGaA and EMD Millipore, most recently as Executive Vice President, Head of Display Materials Business Unit. Ms. Lowenstein has served on the board of directors of PerkinElmer Limited since August 2023. Ms. Lowenstein holds a Bachelor of Economics, Engineering Science from Riga Technical University, Latvia, and an M.B.A. from Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley. We believe that Ms. Lowenstein’s extensive cross-industry and international business and leadership experience qualify her to serve on our Board. 9

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| DAFNI BIKA |     | Age 60 |

Dafni Bika has over 25 years of business and leadership experience in development and manufacturing science and technology. Dr. Bika has served as