Company: ANY
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-015485
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Company: Sphere 3D Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 18
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 or had a receiver, receiver manager or trustee appointed to hold its assets;

(c) has, within the 10 years before the date of this Proxy Statement, become bankrupt, made a proposal under any legislation relating to bankruptcy or insolvency, or become subject to or instituted any proceedings, arrangement, or compromise with creditors, or had a receiver, receiver manager or trustee appointed to hold the assets of the proposed director; or

(d) has been subject to any penalties or sanctions imposed by a court relating to securities legislation or by a securities regulatory authority or has entered into a settlement agreement with a securities regulatory authority or been subject to any other penalties or sanctions imposed by a court or regulatory body that would be likely to be considered important to a reasonable security holder in deciding whether to vote for a proposed director.

#### Vote Required
The affirmative vote of a majority of votes cast for each director nominee by shareholders represented in person or by proxy at the Meeting is required to approve the election of each of the director nominees.

The Board recommends a vote “FOR” each of the director nominees named above.

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### CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

#### General
National Policy 58-201 - Corporate Governance Guidelines and National Instrument 58-101 - Disclosure of Corporate Governance Practices (“ NI 58-101 ”) set out a series of guidelines for effective corporate governance. The guidelines address matters such as the composition and independence of corporate boards, the functions to be performed by boards and their committees and the effectiveness and education of board members. Each reporting issuer, such as the Company, must disclose on an annual basis and in prescribed form, the corporate governance practices that it has adopted. The following is the Company’s required annual disclosure of its corporate governance practices.

#### Director Independence
The Board has determined that the following current directors are independent within the meaning of NI 58-101 and NI 52-110 and Nasdaq Marketplace Rule 5605(a)(2): Timothy Hanley, Susan Harnett, and Duncan McEwan. The Board is currently comprised of three independent directors and a majority of independent directors.

#### Meetings of Independent Directors
The independent directors on the Board and each of the committees meet regularly without management (including non-independent directors) present as part of Board meetings scheduled in the ordinary course. During the last completed fiscal year of the Company, the Board and the committees met as follows:

|                                     |     | Board Meetings Held |     | Board Meetings Held 
  Without Management |     | Unanimous Written Cons