Company: WHWK
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-020311
Chunk: 19

Company: Whitehawk Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 19
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 director successor is duly elected and qualified or until the earlier of his or her death, resignation or removal. Our Certificate of Incorporation provides that our directors may be removed from office at any time, but only for cause, and only by the affirmative vote of the holders of at least a majority of the voting power of the issued and outstanding capital stock of the Company entitled to vote in the election of directors. Newly created directorships resulting from any increase in the number of directors, created in accordance with our bylaws, and any vacancies on the Board resulting from death, resignation, disqualification, removal or other cause shall be filled only by the affirmative vote of a majority of the remaining directors then in office, even though less than a quorum of the Board, or by a sole remaining director, and not by the stockholders.

Our Certificate of Incorporation provides that our Board is divided into three classes of directors, with the classes as nearly equal in size as practicable, designated Class I, Class II and Class III. Each of our directors previously identified serves in the class indicated. Subject to any earlier resignation or removal in accordance with the terms of our Certificate of Incorporation and our bylaws, if elected, our Class II directors will serve until the 2028 annual meeting of stockholders, our Class I directors will serve until the 2027 annual meeting of stockholders, and our Class III directors will serve until the 2026 annual meeting of stockholders. Any additional directorships resulting from an increase in the number of directors will be apportioned among the classes as to make all classes as nearly equal in number as practicable.

Director Nomination Process

Our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee is responsible for reviewing with the Board, on an annual basis, the appropriate characteristics, skills and experience required for the Board as a whole and its individual members. In evaluating the suitability of individual candidates (both new candidates and current members), the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, in recommending candidates for election, and the Board, in approving (and, in the case of vacancies, appointing) such candidates, will take into account many factors, including the following:

• character and professional integrity;

• ethics and values;

• experience in corporate management, such as serving as an officer or former officer of a publicly held company;

• experience in the industries in which we compete;

• experience as a director or executive officer of another publicly held company;

• diversity with respect to education, race, ethnicity, gender, age and geography;

• conflicts