Company: CHUC
Filing Date: 2025-06-24
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001437749-25-021182
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Company: Charlie's Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-06-24
Form: DEF 14A
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 attended at least 75% of the aggregate number of meetings of the Board and committees on which he or she served that were held during 2024 and while he or she was a member of the Board or such committee, as appropriate. We do not have a formal policy requiring directors to attend annual meetings of stockholders, however we expect our directors will attend.

Director Independence

The Board currently consists of five members, four of whom qualify as independent within the meaning of the independent director guidelines of the Nasdaq Capital Market and the NYSE The Board has determined that Messrs. Cohen, Fox, Carmines, and King are considered independent directors as defined by the rules and regulations of Nasdaq and the NYSE.

Stockholder Communications

Stockholders may send communications to our directors as a group or individually, by writing to those individuals or the group: c/o the Secretary, 1007 Brioso Drive, Costa Mesa, CA 92627. The Secretary will review all correspondence received and will forward all correspondence that is relevant to the duties and responsibilities of the Board or our business to the intended director(s). Examples of inappropriate communication include business solicitations, advertising and communication that is frivolous in nature, relates to routine business matters, or raises grievances that are personal to the person submitting the communication. Upon request, any director may review communication that is not forwarded to the directors pursuant to this policy.

Committees of the Board of Directors

The Board currently has a standing Audit Committee and does not have an active Compensation Committee or Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. The full Board currently administers the duties of each of the Compensation Committee and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. A written charter for the Audit Committee is available on the Company’s website at www.charliesholdings.com under “Investors/Corporate Governance”. The responsibilities of the Audit Committee are described below. Members serve on committees until their resignation or until as otherwise determined by the Board.

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Audit Committee

The Company’s Audit Committee is responsible for, among other things:

| ● | appointing, compensating, retaining, evaluating, terminating, and overseeing the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm; |

| ● | discussing with the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm their independence from management; |

| ● | reviewing, with the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, the scope and results of their audit; |

| ● | approving all audit and permissible non-audit services to be performed by the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm