Company: TPET
Filing Date: 2025-06-18
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001641172-25-015530
Chunk: 10

Company: Trio Petroleum Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-06-18
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 10
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 “2026 Annual Meeting”).

The term of office of the Class I Directors, consisting of John Randall and Thomas J. Bernice, will expire at the 2027 annual meeting of stockholders (the “2027 Annual Meeting”).

Current Directors and Terms

Our current directors, their respective positions and terms of office are set forth under the heading “Directors and Officers”on page 18 of this Proxy Statement.

Nominees for Class II Directors

Our nominating and corporate governance committee has recommended, and our Board of Directors has approved, William J. Hunter and James H. Blake, as nominees for election as Class II Directors. If elected by the stockholders at the Annual Meeting, they will each serve for a three-year term expiring at the 2028 Annual Meeting, or until the election and qualification of their respective successors in office, subject to their earlier death, resignation, or removal.

If you are a stockholder of record and you sign your proxy card or vote over the Internet or by telephone but do not give instructions with respect to the voting of directors, your shares will be voted FOR the election of William J. Hunter and James H. Blake as Class II Directors. We expect that the nominees will serve if elected. However, if a director nominee is unable or declines to serve as a director at the time of the Annual Meeting, proxies will be voted for any nominee who is designated by our Board of Directors to fill the resulting vacancy. If you own your stock through a broker, bank, or other nominee and you do not give voting instructions, then your shares will not be voted on this matter. The Board of Directors has no reason to believe that either of the nominees will be unable to serve.

Information about Board Nominees

This Proxy Statement under the heading “Directors and Officers”on page 18 includes certain biographical information, as of June 2, 2025, for each nominee for director, including all positions he or she holds, her or his principal occupation and business experience, and the names of other publicly held companies of which the director or nominee currently serves as a director or has served as a director.

We believe that all of our directors and nominees: display personal and professional integrity; satisfactory levels of education and/or business experience; broad-based business acumen; an appropriate level of understanding of our business and its industry and other industries relevant to our business; the ability and willingness to devote adequate time to the work of our Board of Directors and its committees; skills and personality that