Company: GAINI
Filing Date: 2025-06-20
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-143255
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Company: GLADSTONE INVESTMENT CORPORATION\DE
Filing Date: 2025-06-20
Form: DEF 14A
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 by proxy to have a quorum.

Your shares will be counted towards the quorum only if you submit a valid proxy (or one is submitted on your behalf by your Brokerage Firm or other nominee) or if you vote at the meeting. Withhold votes, abstentions and broker non-votes will be counted towards the quorum requirement. If there is no quorum, either a chairman of the meeting or a majority of the votes present or represented by proxy at the meeting may adjourn the meeting to another date.

**How can I find out the results of the voting at the annual meeting?**

Preliminary voting results will be announced at the annual meeting. Final voting results will be published in a current report on Form 8-K that we expect to file with the SEC within four business days after the annual meeting. If final voting results are not available to us in time to file a Form 8-K within four business days after the meeting, we intend to file a Form 8-K to publish preliminary results and, within four business days after the final results are known to us, file an additional Form 8-K to publish the final results.

**What proxy materials are also available on the Internet?**

The Notice of Annual Meeting, Proxy Statement and Annual Report on Form 10-K are available at www.proxyvote.com.

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#### PROPOSAL 1

### ELECTION OF DIRECTORS
Our Board is divided into three classes, with staggered three-year terms. Effective as of August 22, 2024, the size of the Board was increased to eight directors and Katharine Cornell Gorka was elected by the Board to the class of 2027 (with a term expiring at the Company’s 2027 annual meeting of stockholders), filling the vacancy created by the increase in size. Subsequently, the Board reduced the size of the Board to seven directors in connection with the resignation of director Paul W. Adelgren, with such resignation and reduction in Board size effective as of December 15, 2024. Currently, our Board is comprised of seven directors, five of whom are independent.

Proxies cannot be voted for a greater number of persons than the number of nominees named. If elected at the annual meeting, each nominee would serve until the 2028 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until his successor is elected and has qualified, or, if sooner, until his death, resignation or removal.

The Company’s Ethics, Nominating & Corporate