Company: REI
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-017570
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Company: RING ENERGY, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: DEF 14A
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 Reserves, leading multi-disciplinary teams. From January 2019 to January 2020, she was a Managing Director of Energy Investment Banking at Raymond James. From February 2018 to May 2019, she was Director of Acquisitions and Divestitures at Citi Global Markets. From June 2012 to May 2016, she was Director of Mergers and Acquisitions at Lantana Energy Advisors.  Ms. Tharp graduated from Texas A&M University with a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering before working as a reservoir engineer in transactions and reserves reporting, senior and mezzanine debt finance and in a private equity portfolio company.  She is a licensed professional engineer in Texas and has held Series 79 and 63 FINRA licenses. 
 Carla is on the Board of Directors for the Houston Producers Forum, the Texas A&M University Petroleum Ventures Program as well as the ADAM Houston, ADAM Permian and ADAM Rockies, Acquisitions, Divestitures and Mergers (ADAM) groups.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
 The particular experience, qualifications, attributes, and skills that led our Board to conclude that Ms. Tharp should serve as a director include her significant financial background; deep technical expertise in oil and gas operations and reserves; and her extensive experience in banking.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| Carla Tharp 
 Age: 61     |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |

### BOARD RECOMMENDATION ON PROPOSAL
<div align='center'>The Board unanimously recommends a vote FOR the election of each of the director nominees named above. The management proxy holder will vote all properly submitted proxies FOR election of each director unless properly instructed otherwise.</div>

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#### RING ENERGY

### CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND OUR BOARD

### CORPORATE GOVERNANCE HIGHLIGHTS
| RELATING TO THE BOARD                                               |     |                                                                                 |
| aAnnual elections of the entire Board                               |     | aDedication to continuing director education                                    |
| aMajority independent directors                                     |     | aDedication to diversity on the Board                                           |
| aAnnual evaluations of the Board, each committee, and each director |     | aDesignated Lead Independent Director                                           |
| aInsider trading policy that prohibits hedging,                     
 pledging, and margin transactions in Company                        
 securities                                                          |     | aBoard committees comprised entirely of independent directors                   |
| aMaintains corporate