Company: LASE
Filing Date: 2025-11-12
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001493152-25-021820
Chunk: 18

Company: Laser Photonics Corp
Filing Date: 2025-11-12
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 18
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| Technology/Digital      |     |       ● |     |      ● |     |      ● |     |        |
| Tenure                  
 and Independence        |     |         |     |        |     |        |     |        |
| Tenure                  
 (Years)                 |     |       6 |     |      2 |     |      1 |     |      1 |
| Independence            |     |         |     |      ● |     |      ● |     |      ● |
| Demographics            |     |         |     |        |     |        |     |        |
| Age                     |     |      65 |     |     54 |     |     79 |     |     71 |

For more information about our Board of Directors and Corporate Governance, see “Corporate Governance” below.

Profiles of Our Director Nominees

Wayne Tupuolahas been our Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer since August 2014. He joined our company as Chief Financial Officer in July 2013, leading our restructuring, and was promoted the following year. Mr. Thakker is an entrepreneurial leader with more than 20 years in finance and operations. He has significant hands-on experience in building and growing new and existing businesses in the online space. He founded and served as President of TripRental.com and TripRental Software, an online listing site for vacation rental properties, from March 2011 to June 2013. He previously served as the Chief Financial Officer for Apartments.com, a Classified Ventures Company from 2006 to 2011. Mr. Thakker also held leadership roles in financial management at Abbott Laboratories and Baxter International Inc. Mr. Thakker received an M.B.A. from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and is an accredited certified public accountant (inactive).

Troy Parkoshas been a member of the Board since August 15, 2023. Since June 1994, Mr. Parkos has been employed by Fastenal Company, a global distributor of wide-ranging industrial and construction products having annual sales in 2022 of approximately $7 billion. Mr. Parkos started his career at Fastenal Company as a sales representative from 1994 to 1997, becoming a Regional Sales Consultant Manager from 1997 to 2007, a District Manager from 2007 to 2018 and, since 2018, Vice President overseeing approximately 1,000 employees throughout the United States