Company: VGASW
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-020032
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Company: Verde Clean Fuels, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
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 at the Annual Meeting. Votes withheld or “broker non-votes” will have no effect on the outcome of the vote on this proposal.

The Board of Directors unanimously recommends a vote “FOR” the re-election of Curtis Hébert, Jr. and Ron Hulme as Class II directors.

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### INFORMATION REGARDING DIRECTOR NOMINEES AND CONTINUING DIRECTORS
Nominees for Re-Election to a Three-Year Term Expiring at the 2028 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (Class II Directors)

#### Curtis Hébert, Jr.
, 62, has served as a director since February 2023. Mr. Hébert is the former Commissioner and Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“

#### FERC
”), where he served from November 1997 to September 2001, a former executive vice president for Entergy Corporation (NYSE: ETR), where he served from September 2001 to July 2010, and a former chief executive officer of Lexicon Strategy Group, an energy, finance and regulatory law advisory firm, where he served from August 2010 to July 2012. Mr. Hébert is currently a partner with the Brunini Law Firm, where he has advised energy companies and corporations throughout the globe on numerous matters, including building accountability and transparency into corporate governance, improving the quality of regulatory filings, reporting and relationships, and executing complex, structured regulatory settlements since July 2012. He also served as a visiting scholar with the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, where he co-chaired the Energy Reliability Task Force and the Cybersecurity Task Force. Mr. Hébert has broad and deep experience in multiple segments of the energy sector, spanning exploration and production, natural gas transportation, electric generation and distribution, chemicals, and mining. He brings a thorough knowledge of national and international energy markets, policy, and regulatory processes. Mr. Hébert also spent years in the telecommunications, transportation, and water/sewage sector on regulatory filings and administrative hearings. Mr. Hébert has served as an independent director and member of both the audit committee and compensation committee of AleAnna, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANNA) (“

#### AleAnna
”) since December 2024. Mr. Hébert served as an independent director, a member of the audit committee, a member of the nominating committee and the chairman of the compensation committee of Bluescape Opportunity Acquisition Corp. from September 2020 through