Company: BWMN
Filing Date: 2025-04-21
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-087211
Chunk: 19

Company: Bowman Consulting Group Ltd.
Filing Date: 2025-04-21
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 19
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, 54.Mr. Swayze has served as our Chief Operating Officer since July 1, 2024. Mr. Swayze joined Bowman in 2022 as Executive Vice President of Energy Services and served as Executive Vice President and Divisional Manager of the Company’s transportation, MEP, and renewables practices from January 2024 until July 2024. Prior to joining the Company, from November 2016 until August 2022, Mr. Swayze was chief operating officer at Onyx Renewable Partners L.P., a national renewable energy developer and financier established by Blackstone in 2014. In this position, he led the engineering, procurement, construction and asset management divisions of the New York City-based company. Mr. Swayze earned a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering from The Pennsylvania State University and a Master in Business Administration from Rutgers University. There are no family relationships among any of our current directors or executive officers.

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PROPOSAL NO. 2 RATIFICATION OF APPOINTMENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM The audit committee of our Board has selected Ernst & Young LLP to serve as our independent registered public accounting firm to audit the consolidated financial statements of the Company for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025. We are asking our stockholders to ratify the selection of Ernst & Young LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2025. Although ratification is not required by our amended and restated bylaws or otherwise, the Board is submitting the selection of Ernst & Young LLP to our stockholders for ratification because we value our stockholders’ views on our independent registered public accounting firm and as a matter of good corporate practice. The affirmative vote of a majority of the shares of voting stock present at the annual meeting, in person or represented by proxy, and entitled to vote thereon is required for approval of this proposal. Broker non-voteswill have no effect on the outcome of this proposal, while abstentions will have the effect of a vote “AGAINST” this proposal. In the event that our stockholders fail to ratify the selection of Ernst & Young LLP, it will be considered a recommendation to the Board and the audit committee to consider other auditors for 2026. However, because of the difficulty in making any substitution of auditors after the beginning of the current year, the appointment for 2025 will stand unless the audit