Company: SLNH
Filing Date: 2025-07-21
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001641172-25-020351
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Company: Soluna Holdings, Inc
Filing Date: 2025-07-21
Form: DEF 14A
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aire has been a successful entrepreneur, venture capitalist and has served as Chief Executive Officer of Company and its pre-merger entity, Soluna Callisto, which the Board believes qualifies him to serve as a director.

<div align='center'>Class III Directors Continuing in Office until the 2026 Annual Meeting</div>

William Hazeliphas served as a member of the Board since February 2021. From 2015 to March 2022, he has served as Vice President of National Grid PLC (“National Grid”), a multinational electricity and gas utility company and has served as its Senior Vice President since April 2022. He has also served as National Grid’s President, Global Transmission (US) from 2017 to 2019 and President of Strategic Growth for National Grid Ventures since August 2019, developing new business opportunities in electric transmission, energy storage, and renewable energy. Prior to joining National Grid, he was the Managing Director, Business Development at Duke Energy Corporation and the President of Path 15 Transmission, LLC, an independent electric transmission company in California, where he led the acquisition for Duke Energy Corporation. Mr. Hazelip also has extensive experience serving on the boards of directors of companies. He currently serves as a member of the board of directors of Millennium Pipeline Corporation, a natural gas pipeline company, the Vice-Chairman of the board of directors of New York Transco, an electric transmission company, and a member of the board of directors of Community Offshore Wind, a clean energy joint venture of RWE AG and National Grid. Mr. Hazelip began his career as an Area Director for CWL Investments, LLC, a Michigan investor group that owns and operates restaurant franchises including Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwich Shops. Mr. Hazelip earned a B.A. from Emory University and an I.M.B.A. from the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. Mr. Hazelip is an accomplished leader in the energy industry, with deep experience in utility project development, financing, regulation, and operations, which the Board believes, particularly in light of the Company’s involvement with the renewable energy sector as it relates to their cryptocurrency mining subsidiary, qualifies him to serve as a director.

Thomas J. Marusakhas served as a member of the Board since December 2004. Additionally, Mr. Marusak served as a member of the board of directors of our former subsidiary, MTI Instruments, Inc., since April 2011, and has served as a member of the board of directors