Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-058174
Chunk: 23

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 23
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 business grows and evolves over time, and that fresh viewpoints and perspectives are regularly considered. Since 2023, the Nominating and Governance Committee has helped identify and recruit five new directors to join our Board.

| Board Refreshment and Director Nominee Tenure |     |                                               |
| •One new director joined our Board in 2023    
 •Two new directors joined our Board in 2024   
 •One new director joined our Board in 2025    |     | •Four directors have served less than 2 years 
 •One director has served 4+ years             
 •One director has served 9+ years             |

In the ordinary course, absent special circumstances, the Nominating and Governance Committee will generally re-nominate incumbent directors who continue to be qualified for Board service and are willing to continue to serve as directors. From time to time, the Nominating and Governance Committee may also consider and evaluate potential new director candidates who meet the criteria for selection as a Board nominee and have specific qualities or skills identified by the Board, and one or more of such candidates may be appointed as directors as appropriate and in accordance with the Company’s organizational documents. Director candidates are generally selected based on input from members of the Board, senior management and, if the Nominating and Governance Committee deems appropriate, a third-party search firm. In addition to candidates proposed by the Board or identified by the Nominating and Governance Committee, the Committee considers candidates for director suggested by our shareholders. Shareholders may recommend candidates for consideration by the Nominating and Governance Committee by submitting the names and supporting information to: Office of the Secretary, STAAR Surgical Company, 25510 Commercentre Drive, Lake Forest, California, 92630. The process for evaluating prospective nominees for director, including candidates recommended by shareholders, includes meetings from time to time to evaluate biographical information and background material relating to prospective nominees, interviews of selected candidates by members of the Nominating and Governance Committee and other members of the Board, and application of our general criteria for director nominees set forth in our Corporate Governance Guidelines. These criteria include, among other things, the prospective nominee’s integrity, business or other experience and expertise, and independence. The Nominating and Governance Committee uses the same criteria for evaluating candidates regardless of the source of referral. In selecting nominees for the Board of Directors, the Nominating and Governance Committee evaluates the general and specialized criteria set forth above, identifying the relevant specialized criteria prior to commencement of the recruitment process, considers previous