Company: HCKT
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-043233
Chunk: 18

Company: HACKETT GROUP, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 18
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 effective, collegial and responsive to the needs of the Company.

The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee is governed by a written charter. A copy of the charter can be found on the Company’s website athttps://www.thehackettgroup.com/governance/.

Stock Ownership Guidelines

The Company’s corporate governance guidelines also contain stock ownership guidelines for the Company’s CEO. Pursuant to these guidelines, the Company’s CEO is required to own a number of shares of the Company’s common stock equal in value to six times his annual base salary. The Company’s CEO currently satisfies these requirements. The Company’s CEO is required to purchase shares in the open market to satisfy these guidelines if necessary. Once the guidelines are achieved, the CEO will not be considered to be out of compliance with these guidelines due to fluctuations in the Company’s stock price.

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Policy Regarding Hedging and Pledging

The Company’s corporate governance guidelines contain restrictions that prohibit directors, officers and employees of the Company from, directly or indirectly, engaging in hedging transactions with respect to securities of the Company. A hedge transaction is defined as the purchase of any financial instrument (including prepaid variable forward contracts, equity swaps, collars and exchange funds) or any transaction that hedges, offsets, or is designed to hedge or offset, any decrease in the market value the Company’s common stock. The Company’s corporate governance guidelines also contain restrictions that prohibit directors and officers of the Company from pledging securities of the Company as collateral for a loan or otherwise using securities of the Company to secure a debt (e.g., to secure a margin loan) without the prior written approval of the Audit Committee.

Code of Conduct and Ethics

The Company has adopted a Code of Conduct and Ethics that is applicable to all directors, officers and employees of the Company and complies with the requirements of Section 406(c) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The Code of Conduct and Ethics reflects the Company’s policy of dealing with all persons, including its customers, employees, investors, regulators and vendors, with honesty and integrity. A copy of the Company’s Code of Conduct and Ethics can be found on the Company’s website athttps://www.thehackettgroup.com/governance/. The Company intends to post amendments to or waivers from the Code of Conduct and Ethics that are applicable to the Company’s CEO, CFO or Controller on its website in accordance with SEC rules. Historically, the Company’s employees were required to acknowledge that they