Company: PNNT
Filing Date: 2025-12-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-322723
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Company: PENNANTPARK INVESTMENT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-17
Form: DEF 14A
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 directors will expire at the annual meetings of stockholders in 2029, 2027 and 2028, respectively. Each director will hold office for the term to which he is elected and until a successor is duly elected and qualifies.

A Stockholder can vote for or against each nominee named below. In the absence of instructions to the contrary, it is the intention of the person named as proxy to vote such proxy FOR the election of each nominee named below. If a nominee should decline or be unable to serve as a director, it is intended that the proxy will be voted for the election of such person as is nominated by the Board as a replacement. The Board has no reason to believe that either nominee will be unable or unwilling to serve.

THE BOARD, INCLUDING ITS INDEPENDENT DIRECTORS, UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDS THAT YOU VOTE FOR THE ELECTION OF THE NOMINEES NAMED IN THIS PROXY STATEMENT.

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Certain information with respect to the nominees for election at the Annual Meeting, as well as each of the other directors, is set forth below, including their names, ages, a brief description of their recent business experience, including present occupations and employment, certain directorships that each person holds and the year in which each person became a director of the Company. The nominees currently serve as directors of the Company.

Each of Mr. Samuel Katz and Mr. Marshall Brozost have been nominated for election as a Class I director of the Company for a three-year term expiring at the annual meeting of stockholders in 2029. Neither Mr. Katz nor Mr. Brozost are being proposed for election pursuant to any agreement or understanding between either Mr. Katz or Mr. Brozost and the Company.

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| Name, Address and Age(1) |     | Position(s) heldwith Company |     | Company,Term of Officeand Length of TimeServed                |     | PrincipalOccupation(s)During, at least,the Past 5 Years                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |     | Number ofCompanies inFund ComplexOverseen byDirector |     | OtherDirectorshipsHeld by Directoror Nominee forDirector Duringthe Past 5 Years(2)                                                                                                |
| Independent Directors    |     |                              |     |                                                               |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |     |                                                      |     |                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| Adam K. Bernstein (62)   |