Company: TMCWW
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-032724
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Company: TMC the metals Co Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form: PRE 14A
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 Weber Shandwick’s global sustainability practice for five years. From 1999 to 2004, Mr. May worked in oceans sustainability as Chief Executive of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC). Mr. May is a former contributing editor to Ethical Corporation and the former European chairman of the Rainforest Alliance. Mr. May holds an M.A. from the University of Oxford, where he read Philosophy, Politics & Economics. Mr. May’s qualifications to serve on the board of directors include more than 25 years in the sustainability world, first as an NGO campaigner, then as a corporate advisor. He and his company have worked all over the world with many leading companies and brands including Nestle, Unilever, Cargill, Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Avantium, Everland, Alliance Boots, Ovo Energy, APRIL, Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), Golden Agri Resources (GAR), IOI Group, Astra International, Sime Darby Plantation, Heathrow Airport Ltd, Drax Group Plc, Primark, Total Energies, Live Nation & Warner Music Group. He recently stepped down after four years as Chairman of Cargill’s Forest & Land Use Sustainability Advisory Panel. He is a regular commentator on corporate responsibility and sustainability issues. In 2019, his firm was acquired by Stonehaven, a London based strategy firm, where he is also Deputy Chairman. Mr. May’s qualifications to serve on the board of directors include his significant experience in advising on sustainability matters and his experience as an advisor to public and private companies.

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#### Stephen Jurvetson
has served on our board of directors as Vice Chairman and as a Special Advisor to our Chief Executive Officer since April 9, 2024. Mr. Jurvetson is a co-founder of Future Ventures, a venture capital firm formed in 2018, and previously was a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, a venture capital firm, from 1995 to 2017. Mr. Jurvetson sits on the SpaceX Board of Directors and was a member of the Board of Director of Tesla from 2006 to 2020. Before co-founding Future Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson, he was a Research and Development Engineer at Hewlett-Packard and he previously worked in product marketing at Apple and NeXT and management consulting with Bain & Company. Mr. Jurvetson holds B.S. and