Company: RPID
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001380106-25-000089
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Company: RAPID MICRO BIOSYSTEMS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form: DEF 14A
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 TO BE VOTED ON AT THE ANNUAL MEETING PROPOSAL 1: Election of Directors At the Annual Meeting, Class I Directors are to be elected to hold office until the 2028 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until such director’s successor is elected and qualified or until such director’s earlier death, resignation or removal. In accordance with the terms of our restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws, our Board is currently divided into three classes with staggered, three-year terms. At each annual meeting of stockholders, the successor to each director whose term then expires will be elected to serve from the time of election and qualification until the third annual meeting of stockholders following election or such director’s death, resignation or removal, whichever is the earliest to occur. The current class structure is as follows: Class I, whose term will expire at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders and whose subsequent term will expire at the 2028 Annual Meeting of Stockholders; Class II, whose term will expire at the 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders; and Class III, whose term currently expires at the 2027 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. Inese Lowenstein is our current Class I Director whose term expires at the Annual Meeting. The Board, upon the recommendation of our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, has nominated Inese Lowenstein and Dafni Bika for election as Class I Directors, to hold office until the 2028 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until their respective successors have been duly elected and qualified or until their earlier death, resignation or removal. The nominees receiving the highest number of affirmative “FOR” votes will be elected as Class I Directors. This is called plurality. Votes withheld and broker non-votes will have no effect on the outcome of the vote on this proposal. If you submit a proxy but do not indicate any voting instructions, the persons named as proxies will vote the shares of Class A common stock represented by the proxy for the election of the persons whose name and biographies appear below as Class I Directors. Inese Lowenstein, whose name and biography appears below, is currently serving as our director. In the event any of the nominees should become unable to serve or for good cause will not serve as a director, it is intended that votes will be cast for a substitute nominee designated by the Board or the Board may elect to reduce its size. The Board has no reason to believe that each nominee named below will be unable to serve if elected. Each nominee has consented