Company: HCKT
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-043233
Chunk: 73

Company: HACKETT GROUP, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 73
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 services in connection with audits of the Company’s benefit plans, mergers and acquisitions and recently issued accounting pronouncements.

(3) Represents fees for services provided in connection with the Company’s tax compliance program.

(4) Represents fees for services provided to the Company not otherwise included in the categories seen above.

If you are a beneficial owner of shares held on your behalf in “street name” by a broker or other nominee, and you do not provide your broker or other nominee with voting instructions, your broker or other nominee will have discretion to vote your shares with respect to this proposal. The proposal will be approved by the vote of a majority of the shares present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote on the proposal.

<div align='center'>THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDS A VOTE “FOR” PROPOSAL 4: TO RATIFY THE APPOINTMENT OF RSM US LLP AS THE COMPANY’S INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 26, 2025.

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CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED PERSON TRANSACTIONS</div>

Review, Approval or Ratification of Related Person Transactions

In accordance with the charter for the Audit Committee, the members of the Audit Committee, all of whom are independent directors, review and approve in advance any transaction which involves “related persons,” that is, parties whose relationship with the Company may enable them to negotiate terms more favorable than those available to other, more independent parties and all other transactions to the extent required by Nasdaq or applicable law to be approved by an audit committee or comparable body. For purposes of these procedures, the individuals and entities that are considered “related persons” include:

any of the Company’s directors, nominees for director and executive officers;

any person known to be the beneficial owner of five percent or more of the Company’s common stock (a “5% Shareholder”); and

any immediate family member, as defined in Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K, of a director, nominee for director, executive officer and 5% Shareholder.

The following related person transactions occurred during 2024 and 2025 on a year to date basis:

On February 23, 2024, the Company repurchased (i) 4,744 shares of its common stock from Maria Bofill, a member of the Board;(ii) 6,570 shares of its common stock from Richard Hamlin, a member of