Company: DMRC
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001437749-25-009135
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Company: Digimarc CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form: DEF 14A
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, or type of services require specific pre-approval. No services were provided by the independent auditors under the categories of “Audit-Related Fees” or “All Other Fees” in 2023 or 2024.

Vote Required

If a quorum is present, the appointment of KPMG LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm will be ratified if the votes cast in favor of this proposal exceed the votes cast opposing this proposal.

<div align='center'>The Board of Directors recommends a vote FOR the ratification of KPMG LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2025.

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Executive Officers

The following table contains information regarding our executive officers as of March 25, 2025. There are no arrangements or understandings between any executive officer and any other person pursuant to which the executive officer is or was to be selected as an executive officer. Additionally, there is no family relationship between any director and any executive officer of Digimarc.

| Name                | Age | Position                                                        |
| Riley McCormack     |  49 | Chief Executive Officer & President                             |
| Charles Beck        |  47 | Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer |
| Thomas (Tom) Benton |  54 | Executive Vice President, Chief Revenue Officer                 |
| George Karamanos    |  45 | Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary     |
| Carle Quinn         |  49 | Executive Vice President, Chief People Officer                  |
| Tony Rodriguez      |  56 | Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer              |
| Ken Sickles         |  54 | Executive Vice President, Chief Product Officer                 |

| Riley McCormack was named our Chief Executive Officer and President on April 12, 2021. Since 2015, Mr. McCormack has served as Managing Member and Chief Executive Officer of McCormack Family Investments and founded and has served as Managing Member and Chief Executive Officer of TCM|Strategic, a fund that invested $53.5 million in the Company. Previously Mr. McCormack was the founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Portfolio Manager of Tracer Capital Management, a $1.5 billion New York-based global technology, media, and telecommunication hedge fund. Prior to Tracer, he was a Partner at Coatue Capital and a high-yield Research Analyst at Morgan Stanley, covering media and telecom companies. Mr. McCormack graduated summa cum laude from