Company: AWRE
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-058702
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Company: AWARE INC /MA/
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 5
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 accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025, is considered to be a routine item under the applicable rules and your broker will be able to vote on

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this item even if it does not receive instructions from you, so long as your broker holds your shares in its name.

If a broker or nominee holds shares of common stock in “street name” for your account, then this proxy statement may have been forwarded to you with a voting instruction card, which allows you to instruct the broker or nominee how to vote your shares on the proposals described herein. To vote by proxy or instruct your broker how to vote, you should follow the directions provided with the voting instruction card. In order to have your vote counted on Proposal 1 and, Proposal 2, you must either provide timely voting instructions to your broker or obtain a properly executed proxy from the broker or other record holder of the shares that authorizes you to act on behalf of the record holder with respect to the shares held for your account.

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Our by-laws provide that a quorum at the annual meeting will be a majority in interest of all stock issued, outstanding and entitled to vote at the meeting. We will treat shares of common stock represented by a properly signed and returned proxy or a proxy properly delivered over the Internet or by telephone as present at the meeting for purposes of determining the existence of a quorum at the meeting. We will count votes withheld from any nominee for election as director, abstentions and broker “non-votes” as present or represented for purposes of determining the existence of a quorum at the meeting.

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A plurality of the votes properly cast at the annual meeting will be necessary to re-elect each of the two Class II directors to a three-year term. A majority of the votes properly cast at the annual meeting will be necessary to approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation paid to our named executive officers, and to ratify the appointment of RSM US LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025. Abstentions will not count as votes cast for or withheld from either nominee for re-election as a Class II director and accordingly will not affect the outcome of the vote on Proposal 1. Abstentions will also have no effect on the outcome of Proposal 2 or Proposal 3. Broker non-votes will have no effect on the outcome of