Company: GCTS
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-102009
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Company: GCT Semiconductor Holding, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form: DEF 14A
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AAQ), and an Operating Partner of Atlas Merchant Capital. Mr. Tuder was also the Chief Executive Officer of Concord I. Previously, Mr. Tuder founded Tremson Capital Management, LLC to invest in undervalued public equities and to make private equity and credit investments in partnership with a number of family offices. Prior to founding Tremson, Mr. Tuder held various investment positions at JHL Capital Group, KSA Capital Management, and CapitalSource Finance, where he was a Managing Director and Head of its Special Opportunity credit investment business. Mr. Tuder began his career as a private equity professional at Fortress Investment Group, where he underwrote and managed private equity investments for Fortress’ various investment vehicles; Nassau Capital, LLC, which managed the private assets of Princeton University’s Endowment; and ABS Capital Partners.

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Mr. Tuder is currently Chairman of the board of directors of Inseego Corporation (Nasdaq: INSG) and serves as a board advisor to various private companies. He previously served on the board of directors of Unico American (Nasdaq: UNAM), Seachange International (Nasdaq: SEAC) and Nam Tai Properties (NYSE: NTP). Mr. Tuder received a B.A. in English Literature from Yale College.

We believe Mr. Tuder is qualified to serve on our Board based on his extensive experience in corporate governance, financing and management of public companies, as well as his skills and expertise in strategic and investment transactions.

Required Vote

The two nominees receiving the highest number of affirmative “FOR” votes will be elected as Class I directors. Shares represented by executed proxies will be voted, if authority to do so is not withheld, for the election of the two nominees named above. If any nominee becomes unavailable for election due to an unexpected occurrence, shares that would have been voted for the nominee will instead be voted for the election of a substitute nominee proposed by our Board and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Under applicable rules, brokers are prohibited from giving proxies to vote on elections of directors unless the beneficial owner of the shares has given voting instructions on the matter. This means that if your broker is the record holder of your shares, you must give voting instructions to your broker with respect to the two nominees in this Proposal 1 if you want your broker to vote your shares on the matter. Otherwise, your shares will be treated as broker non-votes. Broker non-votes will have no effect on the