Company: SENEA
Filing Date: 2025-07-07
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001437749-25-022256
Chunk: 6

Company: Seneca Foods Corp
Filing Date: 2025-07-07
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 6
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2028 and until each of their successors is duly elected and shall qualify.

Unless instructed otherwise, proxies will be voted FOR the election of the three nominees listed below. Although the directors do not contemplate that any of the nominees will be unable to serve prior to the Meeting, if such a situation arises, the enclosed proxy will be voted in accordance with the best judgment of the person or persons voting the proxy.

Information Concerning Directors

The following biographies of each of the director nominees, as well as the directors whose terms continue beyond the Annual Meeting, contains information regarding that person’s principal occupation, tenure with the Company, business experience, other director positions currently held or held at any time during the past five years, and the specific experience, qualifications, attributes or skills that led to the conclusion by the Board of Directors that such person should serve as a director of the Company.

Nominee Standing for Election at the 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders for a Term Expiring in 2028

The Board of Directors unanimously recommends a vote FOR the election of each of the nominees listed below.

Kathryn J. Boor, age 66 – Dr. Boor was appointed as a director of the Company in January 2019. She is the Dean of the Graduate School and Vice Provost for Graduate Education at Cornell University. Dr. Boor has served on various boards including the US-Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund (BARD; 2019-2024) and the US Food and Drug Administration Science Board (2019-2024). She serves on the Innovation Committee and the Nomination and Governance Committee for International Flavors and Fragrance (since January 2021) and serves on the Compensation and Nomination and Governance Committees for Sarepta Therapeutics (since June 2022). She chaired the Food Safety Innovation Lab Advisory Committee for USAID Feed the Future (2020-2025). Dr. Boor earned a B.S. in Food Science from Cornell University, an M.S. in Food Science from the University of Wisconsin and a Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of California, Davis.

John P. Gaylord, age 64 – Mr. Gaylord has been a director of the Company since October 2009. He has operating and management experience in manufacturing and distribution businesses, including experience as President of FishHawk LP. Mr. Gaylord currently serves as a member of the compensation committee as well as the corporate governance and nominating committee of the Company's Board of Directors.