Company: GAINI
Filing Date: 2025-06-20
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-143255
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Company: GLADSTONE INVESTMENT CORPORATION\DE
Filing Date: 2025-06-20
Form: DEF 14A
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     | General Counsel for the Company, Gladstone Capital, Gladstone Commercial and Gladstone Land since October 2009 and Gladstone Alternative since 2024. Secretary for the Company, Gladstone Capital, Gladstone Commercial and Gladstone Land since October 2012 and Gladstone Alternative since 2024. President of the Administrator since July 2013. Managing Principal and Chief Legal Officer of Gladstone Securities and member of its board of managers since October 2010. General Counsel and Secretary of Gladstone Acquisition from January 2021 until October 2022. |

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| Name, Age, Address                                                                                           |     | Position(s) Held With Company         |     | Term of Office and Length of Term Served                  |     | Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| Taylor Ritchie (36) Gladstone Investment Corporation 1521 Westbranch Drive, Suite 100 McLean, Virginia 22102 |     | Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer |     | Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer since October 2024. |     | Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of the Company since October 2024. Served as the Company’s Accounting Manager from November 2018 until July 2020, the Company’s Controller from July 2020 until July 2022 and as the Company’s Controller and Director of Financial Reporting since July 2022. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Ritchie worked for Ernst & Young from 2011 until 2018 as a Manager in the Financial Services practice, focusing on Banking and Capital Markets. |

| * | Mr. Gladstone and Ms. Novara are interested persons of Gladstone Investment Corporation, within the meaning of Section 2(a)(19) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), due to their positions as officers of the Company, and our Adviser and their employment by our Adviser. |

Qualifications of Director Nominees When considering whether our director nominees have the experience, qualifications, attributes and skills, taken as a whole, to enable our Board to satisfy its oversight responsibilities effectively in light of our operational and organizational structure, the Ethics Committee and the Board focused primarily on the information discussed in each of the individual backgrounds set forth above and on the following particular attributes:

| • |     | Mr. Gladstone was selected to serve as a director on our Board due to the fact that he is our founder and has greater than 30 years of experience in the industry