Company: GPOR
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001213900-25-024139
Chunk: 66

Company: GULFPORT ENERGY CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 66
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 to the Board of Directors that the audited financial statements be included in the Gulfport Energy Corporation 2024 Annual Report on Form 10K. This report is not soliciting material, is not deemed to be filed with the SEC, and is not to be incorporated by reference in any filing of the Company under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, whether made before or after this date and irrespective of any general incorporation language in any filing. This report has been furnished by the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors. THE AUDIT COMMITTEE David Wolf, Chair Jason Martinez Jeannie Powers David Reganato

| 2025 PROXY STATEMENT    63 |

| ABOUT THE ANNUAL MEETING |

Why am I receiving these materials? The Board of Directors has sent you this proxy statement and the accompanying proxy card to ask for your vote, as a stockholder of the Company, on certain matters that will be voted on at the Annual Meeting. Who is soliciting my vote? The Board of Directors is soliciting your vote at the Annual Meeting. The proposals to be voted on by the Company’s stockholders at the Annual Meeting are described below. What am I voting on? You are voting on: •The election of seven directors to serve until the 2026 Annual Meeting ( see Proposal 1 beginning on page 8 of this proxy statement). •The ratification of Grant Thornton LLP as our independent auditors for the year ended December31, 2025 ( see Proposal 2 beginning on page 60 of this proxy statement). •The approval, on an advisory, non -bindingbasis, of the compensation paid to the Company’s NEOs as described in this proxy statement ( see Proposal 3 beginning on page 61 of this proxy statement). •The approval of an amendment to the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to provide for exculpation of certain officers of the Company as permitted by amendments to Delaware law ( see Proposal 4 beginning on page 62 of this proxy statement). •Any other business properly coming before the meeting. How does the Board of Directors recommend that I vote my shares? Unless you give other instructions on your proxy card, the persons named as proxy holders on the proxy card will vote in accordance with the recommendations of our Board of Directors. The Board of Directors’ recommendations can be found with the description of each proposal in this proxy statement. In summary, the Board of Directors recommends a vote: •“ FOR” each of our director nominees. •