Company: CALX
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001406666-25-000011
Chunk: 16

Company: CALIX, INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 16
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 Directors    
 (All Committee Members are Independent) |     |                                   |     |                                                       |
| Audit Committee                         |     | Talent and Compensation Committee |     | Nominating and Corporate                              
 Governance Committee                                  |
| Chair: Kathleen Crusco                  
 Other Members: Eleanor Fields           
 & Kevin Peters                          |     | Chair: Christopher J. Bowick      
 Other Members: Kira Makagon       
 & Rajatish Mukherjee              |     | Chair: Kevin Peters                                   
 Other Members: Christopher J. Bowick & Wade Oosterman |
| Cybersecurity Committee                 |     |                                   |     | Strategic Committee                                   |
| Chair: Kevin Peters                     
 Other Members: Kira Makagon             
 & Rajatish Mukherjee                    |     |                                   |     | Chair: Wade Oosterman                                 
 Other Members: Kathleen Crusco                        
 & Eleanor Fields                                      |

#### Audit Committee
Our Audit Committee is established in accordance with Section 3(a)(58)(A) of the Exchange Act and is responsible for overseeing management of Calix’s risks relating to accounting matters, financial reporting and legal and regulatory

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compliance. Each director serving on our Audit Committee is independent within the meaning of the NYSE listing standards and applicable rules and regulations of the SEC.

The current members of our Audit Committee are Mses. Crusco and Fields and Mr. Peters, with Ms. Crusco serving as the Audit Committee chair. Our Board has determined that Ms. Crusco and Mr. Peters are each an “audit committee financial expert” as defined under the SEC rules and that Ms. Crusco’s service on the audit committee of one other public company would not impair her ability to effectively serve on our Audit Committee. Ms. Fields will no longer serve on the Board nor on any committee of the Board upon the expiration of her term on May 8, 2025. Upon the commencement of Mr. Berry's service on the Board, it is expected that he will serve on the Audit Committee as an "audit committee financial expert" as defined under the SEC rules. During 2024, the Audit Committee met eleven times and conducted private sessions with our independent registered public accounting firm and with individual members of management at its regularly scheduled meetings. The Audit Committee also meets regularly in executive session without management present at its scheduled meetings.

Our Audit Committee oversees our corporate accounting and financial reporting process. Among other matters, the Audit Committee evaluates the independent registered public accounting firm’s qualifications, independence and performance; determines the engagement of the independent