Company: FGI
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-020349
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Company: FGI Industries Ltd.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: DEF 14A
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 she was a vice president at Birchwood Investments, a single family office where she managed alternative assets. Ms. Weir started her career at Cambridge Associates, where she provided investment advice to endowments and families. Ms. Weir received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and she is also a Chartered Financial Analyst charter holder. We believe Ms. Weir’s experience in portfolio management and wealth management and expertise in environmental, social and governance initiatives and standards qualify her to serve on our board of directors.

Anagha Apte. Ms. Apte has been a director since 2024. She serves as the Senior Director, Ethics Counsel at eBay, Inc. since 2019. Prior to this, Ms. Apte served in ethics & compliance roles at Twitter, Inc. (now “X”) from 2016 to 2019 and Starwood Hotels & Resorts from 2013 to 2016. Ms. Apte started her career at Baker Hostetler LLP where she focused her practice on white collar criminal defense and commercial litigation. Ms. Apte received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. We believe Ms. Apte’s expertise in legal and compliance programs as well as her experience with public companies will be an asset to our board of directors.

#### Required Vote and Board Recommendation
The Board recommends that you vote “ FOR ” each of the five nominees to the Board. The election of each nominee requires the affirmative vote of a simple majority of votes cast, whether in attendance at the virtual meeting or by proxy, and entitled to vote at the meeting, provided that a quorum is present. Except as otherwise directed, the proxies will vote all valid proxies for each of the five nominees identified above.

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### CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

#### Director Independence
Our board of directors has determined that each of Todd Heysse, Kellie Zesch Weir and Anagha Apte are independent under applicable Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) rules and, accordingly, none of our directors, with the exception of David Bruce and John Chen, has a relationship that would interfere with the exercise of independent judgment in carrying out the responsibilities of a director and is independent under applicable Nasdaq rules. In making these determinations, our board of directors considered the current and prior relationships that each non-employee director has with our company and all other