Company: CALX
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001406666-25-000011
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Company: CALIX, INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
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, Calix believes holding the Annual Meeting online enables broader stockholder attendance and participation from any location around the world, minimizing travel time and cost. In designing our online format, we have taken measures to facilitate easy access and to ensure our virtual meeting provides all stockholders with equal access to ask questions of our Board and management. Our virtual meeting allows participating stockholders to vote on proposals, access our Proxy Statement and 2024 Annual Report and engage in a live Q&A with our Board, management and auditors. In addition, a recording of our Annual Meeting is publicly available for a year following each annual meeting at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/CALX2025 .

#### What am I being asked to vote on?
You are being asked to vote on:

• election of three Class III directors to hold office until our 2028 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (Proposal No. 1);

• approval of the Fourth Amended and Restated 2019 Equity Incentive Award Plan (as amended and restated, the "2019 Plan") to increase the number of shares of common stock issuable under the 2019 Plan by 4,000,000 shares (Proposal No. 2);

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• approval of the 1,250,000 shares of our common stock reserved for issuance under the matching component of the Stock Purchase and Matching Plan (Proposal No. 3);

• approval, on a non-binding, advisory basis of the compensation of our named executive officers (“NEOs”) as disclosed in this Proxy Statement (Proposal No. 4); and

• ratification of the selection of KPMG LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025 (Proposal No. 5).

In addition, you are entitled to vote on any other matters that are properly brought before the Annual Meeting.

How does the Board recommend I vote on the Proposals?

The Board recommends that you vote:

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#### FOR

#### each of the Class III director nominees;
• FOR approval of the 2019 Plan to increase the number of shares of common stock issuable under the 2019 Plan by 4,000,000 shares;

• FOR approval of the 1,250,000 shares of our common stock reserved for issuance under the matching component of the Stock Purchase and Matching Plan;

• FOR approval, on a non-binding, advisory basis, of the compensation of our NEOs; and

• FOR ratification of the