Company: BKTI
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001437749-25-012867
Chunk: 22

Company: BK Technologies Corp
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 22
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 2011, Mr. Suzuki served as Senior Vice President, Sales of EFJohnson Technologies. Mr. Suzuki has a broad background in general management, strategy, product development, sales, marketing, supply chain, operations and engineering, and mergers and acquisitions. He is a strategic thinker with extensive experience in developing and growing new business opportunities. Mr. Suzuki holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Ottawa and an MBA from Duke University.

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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE</div>

The Board of Directors is committed to good business practices, transparency in financial reporting and the highest level of corporate governance. The Board of Directors, which is elected by the stockholders, is our ultimate decision-making body, except with respect to those matters reserved to our stockholders. The Board selects the senior management team, which is charged with the conduct of our business. Having selected the senior management team, the Board of Directors acts as an advisor and counselor to senior management and ultimately monitors its performance.

Board of Directors Independence

The NYSE American corporate governance listing standards provide that the Company, as a smaller reporting company, may have a board of directors consisting of at least fifty percent (50%) independent directors. Our Board of Directors reviews the relationships that each director and any director nominee has with us and other parties. Only those directors who do not have any of the categorical relationships that preclude them from being independent within the independence requirements of the NYSE American corporate governance listing standards and who the Board of Directors affirmatively determines have no relationships that would interfere with the exercise of independent judgment in carrying out the responsibilities of a director are considered to be independent directors. The Board of Directors reviews a number of factors to evaluate the independence of each of its members. These factors include its members’ current and historic relationships with us and our subsidiaries; their relationships with management and other directors; the relationships their current and former employers have with us and our subsidiaries; and the relationships between us and other companies of which our Board members are directors or executive officers. The Board of Directors reviewed the various factors described above and, pursuant to such evaluation, the Board of Directors determined that Mr. Jackson, Mr. Lanktree, Ms. O’Hara, General Payne and Mr. Sams were “independent” directors within the independence requirements of the NYSE American corporate governance listing standards and all applicable rules and regulations of the SEC. All members of the standing Board committees during 2024 were, and all current members of the standing Board committees are