Company: KITTW
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001849820-25-000115
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Company: Nauticus Robotics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form: PRE 14A
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 TO ENACT A REVERSE SPLIT OF ITS SHARES AT A RATIO BETWEEN ONE TO TWO AND ONE TO NINE IN THE BOARD’S DISCRETION.

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#### ITEM 5: ADJOURNMENT PROPOSAL

#### Overview
In the Adjournment Proposal, we are asking stockholders to authorize the holder of any proxy solicited by the Board to vote in favor of adjourning the Meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof. If our stockholders approve this Item 5, we could adjourn the Meeting, and any adjourned session of the Meeting, to use the additional time to solicit additional proxies in favor of the other proposals contained in this Proxy Statement.

Required Vote and Recommendation of Board of Directors

Approval of Item 5 requires the affirmative vote of stockholders representing a majority of votes cast at the Meeting. Abstentions and “broker non-votes,” if any, will have no effect on the outcome of this vote.

The Board of Directors believes that, if the number of voting shares voting in favor of any of the Items presented at the Meeting is insufficient to approve an Item, it is in the best interests of our stockholders to enable the Board of Directors, for a limited period of time, to continue to seek to obtain a sufficient number of additional votes in favor of the Item. Any signed proxies received by us in which no voting instructions are provided on such matter will be voted in favor of an adjournment in these circumstances. The time and place of the adjourned meeting will be announced at the time the adjournment is taken. Any adjournment of the Meeting for the purpose of soliciting additional proxies will allow our stockholders who have already sent in their proxies to revoke them at any time prior to their use at the Meeting as adjourned.

THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS RECOMMENDS A VOTE “FOR” THE APPROVAL OF A PROPOSAL TO ADJOURN THE MEETING TO A LATER DATE OR DATES, IF NECESSARY OR APPROPRIATE, TO PERMIT FURTHER SOLICITATION AND VOTE OF PROXIES IN THE EVENT THAT THERE ARE INSUFFICIENT VOTES FOR, OR OTHERWISE IN CONNECTION WITH, ONE OR MORE OF THE OTHER ITEMS TO BE VOTED ON AT THE MEETING.

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### COMPENSATION OVERVIEW AND STRATEGY
Our executive compensation program has been designed to ensure that we are