Company: ONEW
Filing Date: 2025-01-10
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001772921-25-000007
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Company: OneWater Marine Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-01-10
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 17
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 became a Managing Director in Onex Corporation’s New York office in 1999. Mr. Troiano serves on the board and is a chairman of numerous Beekman portfolio companies. Mr. Troiano is on the board of two academic institutions and is involved with various charitable organizations. Mr. Troiano graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Economics from The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania with concentrations in Finance and Accounting. Mr. Troiano then earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Our Board of Directors believes Mr. Troiano is qualified to serve on our Board of Directors because of his financial expertise and prior professional experience.

#### Vote Required
The nominees who receive the affirmative vote of a majority of the shares of the Company’s common stock that are present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote on the election of directors will be elected as directors, to hold office until the 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until their successors are elected and qualified, unless they resign or their seats become vacant due to removal or death. Abstentions will have the effect of a vote against a nominee and broker non-votes will not affect the election of directors.

Holders of proxies solicited by this proxy statement will vote the proxies received by them as directed on the proxy card or, if no direction is given, then FOR the election of the nominees named in this proxy statement.

THE BOARD RECOMMENDS A VOTE “FOR” THE NINE DIRECTOR NOMINEES IDENTIFIED ABOVE.

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<div align='center'>PROPOSAL NO. 2 - APPROVAL OF, ON AN ADVISORY (NON-BINDING) BASIS, THE COMPENSATION OF OUR NAMED EXECUTIVE OFFICERS</div>

### Background
Our Board is committed to excellence in governance. As part of this commitment, in accordance with the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the “Dodd-Frank Act”) and as required by Rule 14a-21 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), our Board is providing our stockholders with an opportunity to cast an advisory (non-binding) vote on a resolution to approve the compensation of our Named Executive Officers.

As described below under “Executive Compensation - Compensation Discussion and Analysis,” we have developed a compensation program that is designed to attract, retain and motivate key executives responsible for our success, to provide incentives that reward achievement of performance goals that directly correlate to the enhancement