Company: CALX
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001406666-25-000011
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Company: CALIX, INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
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 rules of the NYSE. Mr. Peters is “independent” as defined under the rules of the NYSE and has significant executive leadership, strategic and operational experience including multiple executive leadership roles at large publicly-traded technology companies. The Board believes that the current board leadership structure is best for Calix and its stockholders at this time. Our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee periodically reviews and recommends to the Board the leadership structure of the Board.

#### Board Independence
Among other considerations, the Board strongly values independent board oversight as an essential component of strong corporate performance. On at least an annual basis, the Board undertakes a review of the independence of each director and considers whether any director has a material relationship with Calix. The Board evaluates each director under the independence rules of the NYSE and the non-employee director and audit committee independence requirements of the SEC.

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Seven of the total nine current directors of our Board are independent under NYSE rules:

| Director              |     | Independent     |     | Director Since |
| Christopher J. Bowick |     | Independent     |     |           2014 |
| Kathleen Crusco       |     | Independent     |     |           2017 |
| Eleanor Fields (1)    |     | Independent     |     |           2023 |
| Kira Makagon          |     | Independent     |     |           2017 |
| Rajatish Mukherjee    |     | Independent     |     |           2022 |
| Wade Oosterman        |     | Independent     |     |           2024 |
| Kevin Peters          |     | Independent     |     |           2014 |
| Carl Russo            |     | Not Independent |     |           1999 |
| Michael Weening       |     | Not Independent |     |           2023 |

(1) Ms. Fields will no longer serve on the Board nor any committee of the Board upon the expiration of her term on May 8, 2025.

The NYSE rules require listed company boards have at least a majority of independent directors. Based on its evaluation, our Board determined that each of Messrs. Bowick, Mukherjee, Oosterman and Peters and each of Mses. Crusco, Fields and Makagon, representing seven of Calix’s nine current directors, and Michael J. Berry, a nominee for Class III director, are independent directors as defined under the NYSE rules. Mr. Russo, our