Company: KITTW
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001849820-25-000115
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Company: Nauticus Robotics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form: PRE 14A
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 the 17th Congressional District of Texas. He currently serves as Chair of Serolf Technologies LLC (wholly owned by Mr. Flores); Chair of the Board of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT); Director and Audit Committee Chair of CO2 Energy Transition (NASDAQ); Director and Audit Committee Chair of New Era Helium (NASDAQ); member of the Strategic Advisory Committee of Veriten LLC; and member of the boards of several non-profit organizations. Following graduation from Texas A&M University – College Station with a BBA in Accounting, Bill began his career with a “Big 4” accounting firm in Texas. He is a Texas licensed CPA and earned an MBA from Houston Christian University.

#### BIOGRAPHIES OF OTHER DIRECTORS
The following are the biographies of our incumbent directors that are either continuing in service on the Board or that have elected to not stand for election at the Meeting:

| Jim Bellingham |     |                     |     | Age: 63 |
|                |     | Director since 2022 |     |         |

Dr. Bellingham has served as a director on our Board since 2022 and chair of our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee since 2024. He concurrently serves as a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor with joint appointments in the Whiting School’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Applied Physics Laboratory. Dr. Bellingham is the Executive Director of the Institute for Assured Autonomy. Previously he was the founding Director of the Center of Marine Robotics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, founded the Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Laboratory at MIT, and co-founded Bluefin Robotics. He was Director of Engineering and Chief Technologist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. Dr. Bellingham is a pioneer in the development, operation, and commercialization of autonomous marine robots. He has led and participated in research expeditions around the world from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Dr. Bellingham’s research activities span from fundamental research on marine autonomy to optimization of observation systems for prediction of ocean processes. He spearheaded the development of small, high performance Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (“AUVs”), resulting in a class of systems which are now widely used within the military, industry, and scientific communities. Dr. Bellingham serves on several institutional boards and advisory boards including Innovasea Systems Inc., the Institute of Marine Research, Norway, and ThayerMahan Inc. He served on the Naval Research Advisory Committee including as Chair, on the Secretary of the Navy Advisory Panel, the Naval Studies