Company: SWKH
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form Type: DEFR14A
Source: 0001628280-25-021125
Chunk: 18

Company: SWK Holdings Corp
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form: DEFR14A
Chunk 18
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 associates. He was a Walton Scholar and on the Dean’s List at the University of Arkansas, where he graduated with a B.A. in Finance. Mr. Staggs has earned the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Adam Rice, age, 44 has been serving as our Chief Financial Officer since July 1, 2024. Rice, from November 2023 to June 2024, was an independent consultant, providing fractional CFO services to companies. Prior to that, from

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December 2019 to November 2023, Mr. Rice served as the Chief Financial Officer for Park Cities Asset Management, a Dallas based asset management firm, where he oversaw business and fund operations, including accounting, finance, treasury management, and debt covenant reporting and compliance and previous to that he was the Director of Finance from July 2019 to December 2019. Previously, from March 2013 to July 2019, Mr. Rice held roles of increasing responsibility, including most recently as Vice President of Corporate FP&A from November 2017 to July 2019, at Mr. Cooper Group Inc. (FKA Nationstar Mortgage Holdings Inc.) one of the largest mortgage servicers in the United States. Prior to Mr. Cooper, Mr. Rice spent six years at Invesco Real Estate. Mr. Rice began his accounting career in the Assurance and Advisory Business Services practice with Ernst & Young. Mr. Rice earned his BA and MS in Accounting from Texas Tech University. Mr. Rice is a Certified Public Accountant in the state of Texas. There are no material legal proceedings to which our executive officers are a party adverse to us or any of our subsidiaries or in which any such person has a material interest adverse to us or our subsidiary.

### SUMMARY COMPENSATION TABLE
The table below summarizes the total compensation earned by each of the named executive officers for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 for services rendered to us in all capacities.

| Name and Principal                  
 Position                            |     | Fiscal 
   Year |     | Salary 
 ($)    |         |     | Bonus(1) 
 ($)      |         |     | Stock     
 Awards(2) 
 ($)       |         |     | All Other       
 Compensation(3) 
 ($)             |        |     | Total 
 ($)   |           |
| Joe D. Staggs,                      
 President & Chief Executive Officer |     |   2024 |     |