Company: CIFRW
Filing Date: 2025-04-21
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001819989-25-000027
Chunk: 30

Company: Cipher Mining Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-21
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 30
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 consists of persons with sufficiently diverse and independent backgrounds;

• recommending to our Board the persons to be nominated for election as directors and to each committee of the Board;

• developing and recommending to our Board corporate governance guidelines, and reviewing and recommending to our Board proposed changes to our corporate governance guidelines from time to time; and

• overseeing the periodic evaluations of our Board and its committees.

Our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee currently consists of Caitlin Long, Holly Morrow Evans and Wesley Williams, with Ms. Long serving as chair. Our Board has determined that each member of our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee qualifies as “independent” under applicable Nasdaq rules applicable to nominating and corporate governance committee members.

#### Board and Board Committee Meetings and Attendance
During fiscal 2024, our Board of Directors met nine times, the Audit Committee met five times, the Compensation Committee met five times and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee met four times. In 2024, each of our current directors attended at least 75% of the meetings of the Board and committees on which he or she served as a member held during the period for which he or she was a member of the Board and committees, as applicable.

#### Executive Sessions
Executive sessions, which are meetings of the non-management members of the Board, are periodically scheduled throughout the year. In addition on a regularly scheduled basis, but no less than twice a year, the independent directors meet in a private session that excludes management and any non-independent directors. At each of these meetings, the non-management and independent directors in attendance, as applicable, determine which member will preside at such session.

Director Attendance at Annual Meeting of Stockholders

We do not have a formal policy regarding the attendance of our Board members at our annual meetings of stockholders, but we expect directors to attend any meeting of stockholders. All directors then-serving attended last year’s annual general meeting of stockholders, and, to the Company’s knowledge.

#### Director Nominations Process
The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee is responsible for recommending candidates to serve on the Board and its committees. In considering whether to recommend any particular candidate to serve on the Board or its committees or for inclusion in the Board’s slate of recommended director nominees for election at the annual meeting of stockholders, the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee considers the criteria set forth in our Corporate Governance Guidelines. Specifically, the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee may take into account many factors, including: personal and professional integrity, ethics and values