Company: HCWB
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-058961
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Company: HCW Biologics Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: DEF 14A
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-employee director, as defined pursuant to Rule 16b-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act. The primary purpose of our compensation committee is to discharge the responsibilities of our board of directors in overseeing our compensation policies, plans, and programs, and to review and determine the compensation to be paid to our executive officers, directors, and other senior management, as appropriate. Our compensation committee, among other things:

reviews and recommends to our board of directors the compensation of our chief executive officer and other executive officers;

reviews and recommends to our board of directors the compensation of our directors;

administers our equity incentive plans and other benefit programs;

reviews, adopts, amends, and terminates incentive compensation and equity plans, severance agreements, bonus plans, change-of-control protections, and any other compensatory arrangements for our executive officers and other senior management; and

reviews and establishes general policies relating to compensation and benefits of our employees, including our overall compensation philosophy.

The compensation committee may delegate its authority to a subcommittee of the compensation committee (consisting either of a subset of members of the committee or, after giving due consideration to whether the eligibility criteria described within the compensation committee charter with respect to committee members and whether such other board members satisfy such criteria, any members of the board of directors) except for its exclusive authority to determine the amount and form of compensation paid to the Chief Executive Officer.

Our compensation committee has a written charter approved by our board of directors. A copy of the charter is available on the Investor Relations section of our website, which is located athttps://investors.hcwbiologics.com/, by clicking on “Governance Documents” in the “Governance” section of our website.

The members of our compensation committee during 2024 included Messrs. Garrett, Greene and Winer, and Ms. Giles. None of the members of our compensation committee in 2024 was at any time during 2024 or at any other time one of our officers or employees, and none had or have any relationships with us that are required to be disclosed under Item 404 of Regulation S-K. During 2024, none of our executive officers served as a member of the board of directors, or as a member of the compensation or similar committee, of any entity that has one or more executive officers who served on our board of directors or compensation committee.

#### Board and Committee Meetings and Attendance
Our board of directors and its committees meet regularly throughout the year, and also hold special meetings and act by written consent from time to