Company: NEWTP
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001587987-25-000073
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Company: NewtekOne, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form: DEF 14A
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. Brunet has over 50 years of experience in the information technology and financial services sectors with specific focus in strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, Software as a Service (SaaS), patent commercialization, cyber security, compliance, and risk management. Mr. Brunet is currently the President and Chief Operating Officer at Advanced Cyber Security Corp, a strategic cyber security corporation focused on preventative, patented encryption technologies and applications. Mr. Brunet is also the founder and managing partner at Cyber Labs International, a global strategic technology consulting firm with specific expertise in cyber security. From January 2001 through December 2015, Mr. Brunet served as the Company’s Executive Vice President, CIO, CTO and CISO. Mr. Brunet’s executive and board member experience in many sectors, including financial services, Cloud Computing, Managed Services and IT security provides a significant addition to the Board of Directors.

#### Director Qualifications
Our Board of Directors believes that the nominees and incumbent directors collectively exhibit the diversity and depth and breadth of experience necessary to contribute to an engaged board that is capable of effectively and thoughtfully overseeing the Company’s management. The three nominees are incumbent directors and one is an officer of the Company. Each nominee was elected as a director at our 2022 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. No nominee has a family relationship to any other director or executive officer. The skills and experience categories highlighted in the table below have been identified by our Board as relevant to advancing the Board’s role and responsibilities, and are generally considered in the Board of Director Compensation, Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee’s (the “Nominating Committee”) process of identifying and reviewing director candidates.

|                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |     | Sloane |     | Downs |     | Salute |     | Brunet |     | Perez-Hickman |     | Zink |     | Razon-Feingold |
| Skills and Experience                                                                                                                                                                                                    |     |        |     |       |     |        |     |        |     |               |     |      |     |                |
| Finance- experience in understanding and overseeing financial reporting and internal controls                                                                                                                            |     | ●      |     | ●     |     | ●      |     | ●      |     | ●             |     | ●    |     |                |
| Leadership- overseeing a company or a significant business unit giving him/her leadership qualities and the ability to identify and develop those qualities in others                                                    |     | ●      |     | ●     |     | ●      |