Company: KITTW
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001849820-25-000120
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Company: Nauticus Robotics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: DEF 14A
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 OVERVIEW AND STRATEGY
Our executive compensation program has been designed to ensure that we are able to attract and retain talented and experienced executive officers, motivate and reward both individual and team efforts, enhance accountability of the executive officers to the Board, and align incentives of our executive officers with our shareholders’ interests.

Our Compensation Committee is responsible for establishing, implementing and monitoring our compensation program. Each year the Compensation Committee evaluates the design of executive compensation within the context of Company performance, strategic priorities and market expectations. Through this process, they determine the appropriate mix of cash and non-cash compensation and short- and long-term incentive compensation for our executive officers in order to reward near-term performance and to encourage commitment to our long-range goals.

Our 2024 executive compensation program consisted of base salary, short-term incentives and long-term incentives, as described below. Named executive officers are eligible to participate in our employee benefit plans, including medical, dental, and vision care programs, Company-paid accidental death, dismemberment, and life insurance, and our 401(k) plan, on the same basis as other employees. We have historically matched 401(k) contributions at certain percentage levels.

Our Compensation Committee considered data from published survey sources and information from our directors, management, and other sources to evaluate our executive compensation. Our Compensation Committee did not engage a compensation consultant in 2024.

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### EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND COMPENSATION
The following disclosure describes the material components of the compensation for the Company’s “Named Executive Officers,” for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024. The Company is an “emerging growth company” and a “smaller reporting company” under the federal securities laws. As such, the Company meets the compensation disclosure requirements of Item 402 of Regulation S-K by providing the reduced disclosures required of a “smaller reporting company.”

#### NAMED EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
Our named executive officers for 2024 were as follows:

• John W. Gibson Jr., Chief Executive Officer

• John D. Yamakoski, Chief Technical Officer

• John Symington, General Counsel

• Nicolaus Radford, Former Chief Executive Officer

• Nicholas J. Bigney, Former General Counsel

Mr. Radford departed the company on January 4, 2024. Mr. Bigney resigned from the Company effective August 21, 2024. For more information, please see the Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the