Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-058174
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Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form: DEF 14A
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 management and the surgical management of astigmatism. Dr. Yeu was voted to The Ophthalmologist's Power List as follows: Global Top 100 Power List 2022 and 2020, Top 100 Women in Ophthalmology in 2021, Emerging Leader in 2019, Rising Stars in 2017 and Top 40 Under 40 in 2015. Dr. Yeu received the Women in Medicine’s Top Ophthalmologist Award in 2021, the inaugural Clinical Rising Star award in 2018 by the Ophthalmic Innovations Summit (OIS), was recognized as a Castle Connelly Top Doc 2016-2022 and received their Exceptional Women in Medicine Award in 2017-2018, earned the Best Doctors Award by her peers from 2013-2016, the Millennial Eye Award in 2015, and was recognized as Top 40 Under 40 through Virginia’s Inside Business Journal. Since December 2021, Dr. Yeu has served on the Board of Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: TARS), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of therapeutic candidates to address a prevalent disease with limited treatment options. Since November 2024, she has served as Chief Medical Officer of Tarsus. Education.  Dr. Yeu earned her medical degree through an accelerated and combined undergraduate/ medical school program at the University of Florida College of Medicine. She completed her Ophthalmology residency at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, where she served as Chief Resident (2006-2007). Dr. Yeu completed a fellowship in cornea, anterior segment and refractive surgery at Baylor College of Medicine’s Cullen Eye Institute from 2007 to 2008, and she served as an Assistant Professor after her fellowship training. |                                                                                      |

| 2025 Proxy Statement | – 7 – |

#### ––Information Regarding Director Nominees––
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| Qualifications.  The Board concluded that Ms. Zhou should serve as a director based on her extensive experience in capital allocation, corporate finance, and corporate governance spanning more than 20 years. She brings a global investor’s perspective and disciplined capital stewardship, which the Board believes will support its oversight of long-term shareholder value creation. Ms. Zhou also contributes valuable insights into business practices in the