Company: CULP
Filing Date: 2025-08-15
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-109242
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Company: CULP INC
Filing Date: 2025-08-15
Form: DEF 14A
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 2019. Mr. Saxon also has extensive financial management expertise, having worked in public accounting before joining the Company, and serving as the Company’s chief financial officer for many years.

ROBERT G. CULP, IV, age 54, has been employed by the Company since 1998 and has served in various capacities, including president of the Culp Home Fashions division from 2004 to 2019. The Board elected Mr. Culp as chief operating officer of the Company in October 2018 and as president of the Company in March 2019. He was elected by the Board as president and chief executive officer of the Company effective January 1, 2020.

Mr. Culp has very strong knowledge about the Company and its business, having been employed with the Company for more than 25 years. He developed management and executive skills in a number of leadership roles in the Company before his current role as president and chief executive officer, as well as significant knowledge of the bedding and furniture industries.

KIMBERLY B. GATLING, age 50, is a partner and the chief cultural engagement officer at the law firm of Fox Rothschild LLP (formerly Smith Moore Leatherwood LLP). She has been a partner at the firm since 2008 and has served in the above-referenced officer role or similar capacity for all of the firm’s 30 offices since 2020. Ms. Gatling is a United States Registered Patent Attorney and a North Carolina State Certified Trademark Specialist. Her legal practice is focused on intellectual property and information technology, including protection and enforcement of patents, trademarks, and copyrights; counseling clients on data protection and privacy, computer and internet related issues, and regulatory matters pertaining to product packaging, labeling, and advertising; and drafting and negotiating intellectual property license agreements, sponsored research agreements, joint development agreements, and software development and license agreements. Over the course of her legal career, she has counseled a variety of clients in the textile industry, and in her role as chief cultural engagement officer she serves as part of the firm’s leadership team and develops strategies that increase and promote a diverse workforce and inclusive environment at all levels of the firm. Throughout Ms. Gatling’s professional career, she has also invested in her community through service and leadership with various entities. Ms. Gatling is the immediate past chair of the board of directors for the Cone Health Foundation, having served on the board of directors from 2015 to 2024. She also serves as a