Company: LIDRW
Filing Date: 2025-02-24
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001437749-25-004906
Chunk: 656

Company: AEye, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-24
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 4
Chunk 656
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 of Board meetings and committee meetings on which he or she then served.

We encourage our directors to attend our annual meetings of stockholders and believe that attendance at annual meetings is just as important as attendance at Board and committee meetings. At our 2024 annual meeting, all of our directors were present.

BOARD COMMITTEES

The composition, duties, and responsibilities of our committees are as set forth below. As of December 31, 2024, the standing committees of our Board of Directors consisted of an Audit Committee, a Compensation Committee, and a Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.  In addition, in 2024 our Board of Directors established a Strategic Financing and M&A Committee. In the future, our Board of Directors may establish other committees, as it deems appropriate, to assist it with its responsibilities. 

As of February 18, 2025, the chair and members of each committee are identified in the following table.

      Name (Class) 
      Audit Committee 
      Compensation Committee 
      Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee  
      Strategic Financing and M&A Committee 

      Timothy J. Dunn (Class I)* 
      C 
      M 
      
      M 

      Prof. Dr. Bernd Gottschalk (Class III) 
      M 
      
      C 

      Jonathon B. Husby (Class III) 
      M 
      M 
      
      C 

      Sue E. Zeifman (Class I) 
      
      C 
      M 

      C = Committee Chair  

      M = Member  

      * = Lead Independent Director  

Audit Committee

Our Audit Committee met four (4) times in 2024. Our Audit Committee is responsible for, among other matters:

     • 
      reviewing the audit plans and findings of our independent registered public accounting firm and our internal audit and risk review staff, as well as the results of regulatory examinations, and tracks management’s corrective action plans where necessary; 

     •
      reviewing our financial statements, including any significant financial items and/or changes in accounting policies, with our senior management and independent registered public accounting firm; 

     •
      reviewing our financial risk and control procedures, compliance programs and significant tax, legal, and regulatory matters; 

     •
      approving all audit and permissible non-audit services to be performed by our independent registered public accounting firm; 

     •
      having the sole discretion to annually appoint our independent registered public accounting firm,