Company: VGASW
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-020032
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Company: Verde Clean Fuels, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
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 of material non-public information. Neither the Board nor the Compensation Committee takes material nonpublic information into account when determining the timing and terms of equity-based awards, including stock options, and, during 2024, the Company did not time the disclosure of material nonpublic information for the purpose of affecting the value of executive compensation. During 2024, we granted stock options to Mr. Burdette in connection with his hiring one business day after the filing of our current report on Form 8-K disclosing Mr. Burdette’s appointment and related compensation. The following table provides information regarding each instance in 2024 when the Company awarded a stock option to a named executive officer in the period beginning four business days before the filing of a periodic report on Form 10-Q or Form 10-K, or the filing or furnishing of a current report on Form 8-K, and ending one business day after the filing or furnishing of such report in accordance with SEC rules:

| Name            |     | Grant date |     |           |     | Number of  
 securities 
 underlying 
 the award  |     |         |     | Exercise price of the award ($/Sh) |     | Grant date fair value of the award |     | Percentage change in the closing market price of the securities underlying the award between the trading day ending immediately prior to the disclosure of material nonpublic information and the trading day beginning immediately following the disclosure of material nonpublic 
 information                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| George Burdette |     |            |     | 10/2/2024 |     |            |     | 310,985 |     |                              $5.99 |     |                           $410,500 |     | (4.76)%                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |

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#### Summary Compensation Table
The following table summarizes the total compensation paid to or earned by each of the NEOs for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, as well as the grant date fair values of share-based compensation awarded to such officers during such fiscal years, calculated in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718.

| Name and Principal Position |     |      |     |   Salary 
      ($) |     | Option Awards($)(a) |     |          |     | Total 
 ($)   |     |            |
| Ernest Miller               |     | 2024 |     | $508,000 |     |                     |     | $640,479 |     |       |