Company: SPWH
Filing Date: 2025-04-16
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-054732
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Company: SPORTSMAN'S WAREHOUSE HOLDINGS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-16
Form: DEF 14A
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 Mr. Becker, Ms. Bejar, Mr. McBee and Mr. Sansom for election to the Board to serve until the 2026 annual meeting of stockholders and until their respective successors are duly elected and qualified. Each of the nominees is currently a member of our Board of Directors. The nominees for election have consented to be named in this Proxy Statement and to serve as directors if elected. If any of the nominees are unable or unwilling for good cause to serve as directors if elected (which is not anticipated), the persons who are designated as proxy holders may exercise discretionary authority to vote for a substitute nominee selected by our Board or our Board may reduce the number of directors serving on the Board. THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS RECOMMENDS A VOTE “FOR” EACH OF THE DIRECTOR NOMINEES NAMED IN THIS PROXY STATEMENT.

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Corporate Governance Guidelines

The Board has developed corporate governance practices to help it fulfill its responsibility to stockholders to oversee the work of management in the conduct of the Company’s business and to seek to serve the long-term interests of stockholders. The Company’s corporate governance practices are memorialized in our Corporate Governance Guidelines which direct our Board’s actions with respect to, among other things, our Board composition and director qualifications, composition of the Board’s standing committees, stockholder communications with the Board, succession planning and the Board’s annual performance evaluation. A current copy of our Corporate Governance Guidelines is available on our website at investors.sportsmans.com.

Annual Board Evaluation

Pursuant to our Corporate Governance Guidelines and the charter of the Nominating and Governance Committee, the Nominating and Governance Committee oversees an annual evaluation of the performance of the Board and each of its committees in order to assess the overall effectiveness of the Board and its committees. The evaluation process is designed to facilitate ongoing, systematic examination of the Board’s effectiveness and accountability, and to identify opportunities for improving its operations and procedures. The effectiveness of individual directors is considered each year when the directors stand for re-nomination

Director Independence

Our Board has determined that each of Mses. Bejar and Walsh and Messrs. Becker, McBee and Sansom qualify as an “independent director” under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5605(a)(2). Mr. Stone does not currently qualify as an independent director because he is employed as our President and Chief Executive Officer. In addition, our Board previously affirmatively determined that Erica Fortune, Greg Hickey and Philip Williamson qualified as independent directors during the