Company: HCWB
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-058961
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Company: HCW Biologics Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: DEF 14A
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 directors has other key attributes that are important to an effective board, including integrity, high ethical standards, sound judgment, analytical skills, and the commitment to devote significant time and energy to service on the board of directors and its committees.

We do not have a formal policy in place with regard to diversity in considering candidates for our board of directors, but the board strives to include a range of talents, experience, skills, diversity and expertise so that, as a group, the board of directors will possess the appropriate talent, skills and expertise to oversee our business.

Additional information regarding the process for properly submitting stockholder nominations for candidates for nomination to our board of directors is set forth in the Questions and Answers section discussing “Stockholder Proposals.”

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Board Diversity Matrix (as of April 22, 2025) The table below provides certain highlights of the composition of the board of directors as of April 22, 2025. Each of the categories listed in the table below has the meaning set forth in Nasdaq Rule 5605(f).

| Board Size:                  |
| Total Number of Directors: 5 |

| Gender:                                                          | Male |   |     | Female |   |     | Non- Binary |   |     | Gender Undisclosed |   |
| Number of directors based on gender identity                     |      | 4 |     |        | 1 |     |             | — |     |                    | — |
| Number of directors who identify in any of the categories below: |      |   |     |        |   |     |             |   |     |                    |   |
| African American or Black                                        |      | — |     |        | — |     |             | — |     |                    | — |
| Alaskan Native or American Indian                                |      | — |     |        | — |     |             | — |     |                    | — |
| Asian                                                            |      | 1 |     |        | — |     |             | — |     |                    | — |
| Hispanic or Latinx                                               |      | — |     |        | — |     |             | — |     |                    | — |
| Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander                              |      | — |     |        | — |     |             | — |     |                    | — |
| White                                                            |      | 3 |     |        | 1 |     |             | — |     |                    | —