Company: HBCP
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001174947-25-000483
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Company: HOME BANCORP, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 10
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 the Investor Relations heading. Nominating Committee. The Nominating Committee considers various criteria when selecting individuals for nomination including: ensuring that the Board of Directors, as a whole, is diverse and consists of individuals with various and relevant career experience, relevant technical skills, industry knowledge and experience, financial expertise (including expertise that could qualify a director as a “financial expert,” as that term is defined by the rules of the SEC), local or community ties, minimum individual qualifications, including strength of character, mature judgment, familiarity with our business and industry, independence of thought and an ability to work collegially. The Nominating Committee also may consider the extent to which the candidate would fill a present need on the Board of Directors, such as industry or board expertise. The Nominating Committee will also consider candidates for director suggested by our management or shareholders. Any shareholder wishing to make a nomination must follow our procedures for shareholder nominations, which are described under “Shareholder Proposals, Nominations and Communications with the Board of Directors” at page 40 below. Director nominations for the 2025 annual meeting were made by the Nominating Committee. All of the members of the Nominating Committee are independent directors as defined in the Nasdaq listing standards. A copy of the Nominating Committee’s charter is available on our website at www.home24bank.comunder the Investor Relations heading. Directors’ Attendance at Annual Meetings Although we do not have a formal policy regarding attendance by members of the Board of Directors at Annual Meetings of shareholders, we expect that our directors will attend. Three of our directors attended our Annual Meeting of Shareholders held in May 2024. 10 Code of Conduct and Ethics and Insider Trading Policy Home Bancorp maintains a comprehensive Code of Conduct and Ethics which requires that our directors, officers and employees avoid conflicts of interest; maintain the confidentiality of information relating to Home Bancorp and its customers; engage in transactions in the common stock only in compliance with applicable laws and regulations and the requirements set forth in the Code of Conduct and Ethics; and comply with other requirements which are intended to ensure that they conduct business in an honest and ethical manner and otherwise act with integrity and in the best interest of Home Bancorp. Our Code of Conduct and Ethics specifically imposes standards of conduct on our Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and other persons with financial reporting responsibilities who are identified in regulations issued by the SEC dealing with corporate codes of conduct. Our directors, officers and employees are required to affirm in writing that they have reviewed and understand the Code of