Company: JOUT
Filing Date: 2025-01-10
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-000715
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Company: JOHNSON OUTDOORS INC
Filing Date: 2025-01-10
Form: DEF 14A
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 Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the New Orleans Saints, a National Football League team, and the New Orleans Pelicans, a National Basketball Association team, since 2012. President of Business Operations and Alternate Governor of the Nashville Predators, a National Hockey League team, from 2007 to 2010. Executive Vice President of Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer of the Nashville Predators from 2004 until 2007 and Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Nashville Predators from 1997 until 2003. Mr. Lang has broad experience in financial matters, accounting and auditing from his activities as a chief financial officer, together with experience in corporate transactions, operations and enterprise risk management. Mr. Lang also has experience in leisure industries and consumer products. This broad financial and other business experience led to the conclusion that he should serve as a director. |

Board of Directors Recommendation

| The Company’s Board of Directors recommends that shareholders vote “FOR” the election of each nominee listed above as a director of Johnson Outdoors Inc. |

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

DIRECTORS’ MEETINGS AND COMMITTEES Meetings and Attendance The Board of Directors has standing Executive, Audit, Compensation, and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees. During the year ended September 27, 2024 (“fiscal 2024”), there were seven meetings of the Board of Directors, seven meetings of the Audit Committee, four meetings of the Compensation Committee, three meetings of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and no meetings of the Executive Committee. Each director attended at least 75 percent of the aggregate number of (i) meetings of the Board of Directors held during the period for which he or she was a director during fiscal 2024 and (ii) meetings of the committees on which the director served during fiscal 2024. Executive sessions or meetings of outside (non-management) directors without management present are held regularly for a general discussion of relevant subjects. In fiscal 2024, the outside directors met in executive session at least two times in accordance with the requirements of the NASDAQ Stock Market.

| Name                      |     | Executive 
 Committee |     | Audit     
 Committee |     | Compensation 
 Committee    |     | Nominating and 
 Corporate      
 Governance     
 Committee      |
| John M. Fahey, Jr.        |     |           |     |           |     |              |     |                |
| Jeffrey M. Stutz          |     |           |     |           |