Company: TMCWW
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-032724
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Company: TMC the metals Co Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form: PRE 14A
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 the Business Combination and has served as DeepGreen’s Head of Financial Markets and Investor Relations since February 2021. Mr. Shesky has over 15 years combined experience in public investing, metals research and investment banking in New York. From August 2008 until July 2020, Mr. Shesky was employed by King Street Capital Management, most recently as senior analyst in charge of recommending investments in the global metals and mining space. Mr. Shesky has analyzed electrification trends, battery chemistries and the resulting impacts on supply and demand for critical base metals, with particular expertise in nickel and copper. He also has significant experience navigating complex, legal-driven investments around the world, as King Street was one of the largest creditors in over a dozen global Lehman Brothers entities. From July 2006 to July 2008, Mr. Shesky served as an analyst on the insurance and asset management investment banking team at Morgan Stanley. Mr. Shesky graduated magna cum laude with a B.S. in Finance from the University of Notre Dame.

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### EXECUTIVE OFFICER AND DIRECTOR COMPENSATION

#### Introduction
This section provides an overview of our executive compensation programs, including a narrative description of the material factors necessary to understand the information disclosed in the summary compensation table below.

We are currently considered a “smaller reporting company” within the meaning of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, for purposes of the SEC’s executive compensation disclosure rules. Accordingly, we are required to provide a Summary Compensation Table and an Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year End Table, as well as limited disclosures regarding executive compensation for our last two completed fiscal years. Further, our reporting obligations extend only to the following “Named Executive Officers” (“NEOs”), which are the individuals who served as principal executive officer and the next two most highly compensated executive officers for the year ended December 31, 2024. As of December 31, 2024, our NEOs were:

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Gerard Barron, Chief Executive Officer;

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Craig Shesky, Chief Financial Officer; and

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Erika Ilves, Chief Strategy Officer

In 2024, we entered into new compensation arrangements for Gerard Barron, our Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, which were approved by our shareholders on an advisory basis at our 2024 annual meeting of shareholders held on May 30, 2024.

Our current executive compensation plan for our