Company: IONQ
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-059289
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Company: IonQ, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: DEF 14A
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, all applicable Company policies and all applicable laws, rules and regulations, including those promulgated by the SEC. Our nominating and corporate governance committee will evaluate such recommendations in accordance with its charter, our amended and restated bylaws and corporate governance guidelines and other applicable policies and the director nominee criteria described above.

A stockholder that wants to recommend a candidate to our board of directors should direct the recommendation in writing by letter to our Corporate Secretary at IonQ, Inc., 4505 Campus Drive, College Park, Maryland 20740, Attention: Corporate Secretary. Such recommendation must include the candidate’s name, age, home and business contact information, the principal occupation or employment of such nominee, relevant qualifications, a written consent from the candidate confirming willingness to serve, information regarding any relationships between the candidate and us and evidence of the recommending stockholder’s ownership of our capital stock. Such recommendation must also include a statement from the recommending stockholder in support of the candidate. Our amended and restated bylaws contain a full description of the information required to be included in a stockholder’s notice. Our nominating and corporate governance committee has discretion to decide which individuals to recommend for nomination as directors.

Under our amended and restated bylaws, stockholders may also directly nominate persons for our board of directors. Any nomination must comply with the requirements set forth in our amended and restated bylaws and the rules and regulations of

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the SEC and should be sent in writing to our Corporate Secretary at the address above. To be timely for our 2026 annual meeting of stockholders, nominations must be received by our Corporate Secretary observing the deadlines discussed below under “Other Matters—Stockholder Proposals or Director Nominations for 2026 Annual Meeting.”

Communications with the Board of Directors

Stockholders and other interested parties wishing to communicate directly with our non-management directors, may do so by writing and sending the correspondence to our Corporate Secretary by mail to our principal executive offices at IonQ, Inc., 4505 Campus Drive, College Park, Maryland 20740, Attn: Corporate Secretary. Our Corporate Secretary, in consultation with appropriate directors as necessary, will review all incoming communications and screen for communications that (1) are solicitations for products and services, (2) relate to matters of a personal nature not relevant for our stockholders to act on or for our board of directors to consider and (3) are matters of a type that are improper or irrelevant to the functioning of our board of