Company: ANY
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-018222
Chunk: 65

Company: Sphere 3D Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 65
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 year ended December 31, 2024, which was filed with the SEC on March 28, 2025 and available on-line with the other proxy related materials or accompanies this Proxy Statement, if requested.

Any material change report (except confidential material change reports) filed by the Company with applicable securities commissions or similar authorities in Canada under the Company’s issuer profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com from the date of this Proxy Statement until the date of the Meeting is also incorporated by reference herein.

You may obtain copies, without charge, of documents incorporated by reference in this Proxy Statement, by requesting them in writing at 243 Tresser Boulevard, 17th Floor, Stamford, CT 06901.

#### Approval by the Board of Directors
The Board has approved the content and delivery of this Proxy Statement.

#### DATED

#### as of the 17th day of April 2025.

### BY ORDER OF THE BOARD
Duncan McEwan

Chairman of the Board

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#### SPHERE 3D CORP.

#### 2025 PERFORMANCE INCENTIVE PLAN

#### 1.

#### PURPOSE OF PLAN
The purpose of this Sphere 3D Corp. 2025 Performance Incentive Plan (this “ Plan ”) of Sphere 3D Corp., a corporation incorporated under the laws of the Province of Ontario (the “ Corporation ”), is to promote the success of the Corporation and to increase shareholder value by providing an additional means through the grant of awards to attract, motivate, retain and reward selected employees and other eligible persons.

#### 2.

#### ELIGIBILITY
The Administrator (as such term is defined in Section 3.1) may grant awards under this Plan only to those persons that the Administrator determines to be Eligible Persons. An “ Eligible Person ” is any person who is either: (a) an officer (whether or not a director) or employee of the Corporation or one of its Subsidiaries; (b) a director of the Corporation or one of its Subsidiaries; or (c) an individual consultant or advisor who renders or has rendered bona fide services (other than services in connection with the offering or sale of securities of the Corporation or one of its Subsidiaries in a capital-raising transaction or as a market maker or promoter of securities of the Corporation or one of its Subsidiaries) to the