Company: CERO
Filing Date: 2025-05-02
Form Type: PRER14A
Source: 0001213900-25-039149
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Company: CERO THERAPEUTICS HOLDINGS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-05-02
Form: PRER14A
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 Company’s Secretary. Any written notice of revocation or subsequent proxy card must be received by the Company’s Secretary prior to the taking of the vote at the Annual Meeting. Such written notice of revocation or subsequent proxy card should be hand delivered to the Company’s Secretary or sent to the Company’s offices at 201 Haskins Way, Suite 230, South San Francisco, CA 94080, Attention: Secretary. How many shares must be present or represented to conduct business at the Annual Meeting? A quorum of stockholders is necessary to hold a valid annual meeting of stockholders. A quorum will be present if the stockholders holding at least a majority of the voting power of the outstanding shares entitled to vote are present, in person or by remote communication or by proxy, at the Annual Meeting. On the Record Date, there were 5,169,723shares of Common Stock outstanding and entitled to vote. Thus, the holders of at least 2,584,862shares of Common Stock must be present or represented by proxy at the Annual Meeting to have a quorum. Your shares will be counted towards the quorum only if you submit a valid proxy (or one is submitted on your behalf by your broker, bank or other nominee) or if you vote live online at the Annual Meeting. Abstentions and shares represented by broker non -votesare counted for the purpose of determining whether a quorum is present. If there are insufficient votes to constitute a quorum at the time of the Annual Meeting, the holders of Common Stock representing a majority of the voting power present at the Annual Meeting or the presiding officer may adjourn the Annual Meeting to another place (if any), date or time and from time to time. How are votes counted? Votes will be counted by the inspector of election appointed for the Annual Meeting, who will separately count for Proposal Nos. 1 and 6 (each of which is considered a “routine matter”) and Proposal Nos.2,3,4, 5 and 7 (each of which is considered a “non -routinematter”) votes “FOR” and “AGAINST,” and abstentions and, if applicable, broker non -votes. What are “broker non-votes ”? A “broker non -vote” occurs when your broker, bank or other agent has not received voting instructions from the beneficial owner of the shares and the broker, bank or other agent cannot vote the shares because the matter is considered “non -routine.” Under the rules that govern brokers