Company: IPGP
Filing Date: 2025-04-07
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001111928-25-000054
Chunk: 98

Company: IPG PHOTONICS CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-07
Form: DEF 14A
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76 NOTICE OF 2025 ANNUAL MEETING AND PROXY STATEMENT

<div align='center'>Appendix A: IPG PHOTONICS CORPORATION 2025 INCENTIVE COMPENSATION PLAN</div>

### IPG PHOTONICS CORPORATION

#### 2025 INCENTIVE COMPENSATION PLAN
IPG Photonics Corporation (the “ Company ”) hereby establishes the IPG Photonics Corporation 2025 Incentive Compensation Plan for the benefit of its eligible Participants for the purposes hereinafter set forth. The Plan permits the award of Stock Options, Restricted Stock, Performance Shares, Performance Units, Stock Units, Cash, and SARs.

#### 1. DEFINITIONS
The following terms shall have the following meanings unless the context indicates otherwise:

1.1. “ Affiliate ” means a corporation that, for purposes of Section 422 of the Code, is a Parent or Subsidiary of the Company within the meaning of Sections 424(e) and 424(f) of the Code.

1.2. “Award” means a Stock Option, a SAR, a Restricted Stock Award, a Stock Unit, a Performance Share, a Performance Unit, or a Cash Award.

1.3. “ Award Agreement ” means an agreement between the Company and a Participant that establishes the terms, conditions, restrictions, and/or limitations applicable to an Award, in addition to those established by the Plan and by the Committee. The Award Agreement may consist of a written notice, a term sheet, and/or an agreement, and may be provided in electronic form. With respect to any Award, the date of the grant of the Award specified by the Committee in a resolution or other writing, duly adopted, and as set forth in the Award Agreement shall be the “ Award Date ,” provided that such Award Date may not be earlier than the date of the Committee action.

1.4. “ Board ” means the Board of Directors of the Company.

1.5. “ Cash Award ” means a grant by the Committee to a Participant of an award of cash as described in Section 11 below.

1.6. “ Cause ” shall have the same meaning given to such term or similar term in any employment, consulting,