Company: BHE
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-051057
Chunk: 20

Company: BENCHMARK ELECTRONICS INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 20
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, Sustainability and Governance |
| David W. Scheible     |     |       |       |     |                                |     |                                           |
| Douglas M. Britt      |     |       |       |     |                                |     |                                           |
| Anne De Greef-Safft   |     |       |       |     |                                |     |                                           |
| Robert K. Gifford     |     |       |       |     |                          Chair |     |                                           |
| Ramesh Gopalakrishnan |     |       |       |     |                                |     |                                           |
| Kenneth T. Lamneck    |     |       |       |     |                                |     |                                     Chair |
| Jeffrey S. McCreary   |     |       |       |     |                                |     |                                           |
| Lynn A. Wentworth     |     |       | Chair |     |                                |     |                                           |
| Meetings held:        |     |       |     8 |     |                              4 |     |                                         4 |

The Board does not have a written policy requiring members to attend annual shareholder meetings, although the Company expects that all of its directors will attend the Meeting. All Board members attended the prior year’s annual shareholder meeting.

Role of Audit Committee

The principal function of the Audit Committee is to assist the Board in fulfilling its responsibility to oversee (i) management’s conduct of the Company’s financial reporting process (including management’s development and maintenance of systems of internal accounting and financial controls), (ii) the integrity of the Company’s financial statements, (iii) the Company’s compliance with legal and regulatory requirements and ethical standards, (iv) the qualifications and independence of the Company’s outside auditors, (v) the performance of the Company’s internal audit function and the outside auditors, and (iv) oversight of the Company's cybersecurity program. The committee also prepares the Report of the Audit Committee required by the rules of the SEC and included later in this Proxy Statement. Additional information regarding the functions performed by the committee is set forth below in such report. The Board has determined that Ms. Wentworth, who chairs the committee, and Mr. Lamneck each qualify as “audit committee financial experts” under the rules of the SEC. In addition, the Board has determined that all members of the Audit Committee are independent under SEC and NYSE rules applicable to audit committee members. An “audit committee financial expert” is defined as a person who has the following attributes: (i) an understanding of generally