Company: HFFG
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001680873-25-000022
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Company: HF Foods Group Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
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inees for Board of Directors” section.

Cindy Yao has served as Chief Financial Officer since May 1, 2024. Ms. Yao joins HF Foods with over three decades of Finance and Accounting leadership experience. For the past 10 years, Ms. Yao served as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President for Markel Food Group, a company providing high-quality, innovative automated process solutions, consulting services and technical support to food producers. Prior to that, from 2002 to 2013, Ms. Yao served as Vice President and Corporate Treasurer for Bausch + Lomb Corporation (NYSE: BLCO), an eye health company with $4.8 billion in annual revenue. Ms. Yao also served in various Finance and Accounting leadership roles with Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW), Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE: KODK), and Coopers & Lybrand LLP, (now part of PwC) prior to 2002. Ms. Yao holds a Master’s degree in Accounting from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and an Executive Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Simon Business School of the University of Rochester.

Christine Chang has served as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer since September 8, 2021. Ms. Chang previously served as Vice President - Legal Affairs, Labor Relations and Litigation for Boyd Gaming Corp. (NYSE: BYD). From 2014 through August 2020, she served in various capacities as Corporate Counsel, Litigation, Senior Corporate Counsel, Litigation, and Vice President and Chief Counsel, Litigation, for Caesars Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: CZR). Ms. Chang also served as an associate at the law firm of Dentons LLP, from 2008 to 2013. Ms. Chang holds a Bachelor of Arts in Rhetoric from the University of California and a Juris Doctorate from Columbia University.

There are no arrangements or understandings between any executive officer pursuant to which such officer was selected as an executive officer.

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### CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

#### Director

#### Independence
As required under the Nasdaq Capital Market listing rules (“Listing Rules”), a majority of the members of a listed company’s Board of Directors must qualify as “independent,” as affirmatively determined by the Board of Directors. An “independent director” is defined generally as a person other than an officer or employee of the company or its subsidiaries or any other individual having a relationship which,