Company: RPID
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001380106-25-000089
Chunk: 24

Company: RAPID MICRO BIOSYSTEMS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form: DEF 14A
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TABLE OF CONTENTS PART 3 – BOARD OF DIRECTORS BOARD OF DIRECTORS The following table sets forth our current directors, as of the date of this proxy statement, including one of our current directors who is nominated for re-election at the Annual Meeting.

| Name                  |     | Age |     | Positions with Rapid Micro Biosystems           |     | Class |
| Richard Kollender     |     |  55 |     | Director                                        |     | II    |
| Melinda Litherland    |     |  67 |     | Director                                        |     | III   |
| Inese Lowenstein      |     |  52 |     | Director                                        |     | I     |
| Kirk D. Malloy, Ph.D. |     |  58 |     | Director, Chair                                 |     | III   |
| Natale Ricciardi      |     |  76 |     | Director                                        |     | II    |
| Jeffrey Schwartz      |     |  46 |     | Director                                        |     | II    |
| Robert Spignesi       |     |  56 |     | Director, President and Chief Executive Officer |     | III   |

Our Board has nominated Inese Lowenstein for re-election at the Annual Meeting, to hold office until the 2028 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until her successor has been duly elected and qualified or until her earlier death, resignation or removal. Further, the biographical description below for Inese Lowenstein includes the specific experience, qualifications, skills, attributes and characteristics that led to the decision of our Board that she should serve as a director of Rapid Micro Biosystems. NOMINEE FOR CLASS I DIRECTOR: (TERM TO EXPIRE AT THE ANNUAL MEETING) The current member of the Board who is a Class I Director is as follows:

| Name             |     |    Served as a 
 Director Since |     | Positions with Rapid Micro Biosystems |
| Inese Lowenstein |     |           2021 |     | Director                              |

The principal occupations and business experience, for at least the past five years, of Inese Lowenstein, as of April 8, 2025, is set forth above under “Nominees for Class I Directors” on page 10 of this proxy statement. Dafni Bika has also been nominated by our Board for