Company: LIDRW
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form Type: PREC14A
Source: 0001140361-25-010248
Chunk: 22

Company: AEye, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form: PREC14A
Chunk 22
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, a Compensation Committee, and a Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. In addition, in 2024 our Board of Directors established a Strategic Financing and M&A Committee. In the future, our Board of Directors may establish other committees, as it deems appropriate, to assist it with its responsibilities. As of the date of this proxy statement, the chair and members of each committee are identified in the following table.

| Name (Class)                           |     | Audit     
 Committee |     | Compensation 
 Committee    |     | Nominating and Corporate 
 Governance Committee     |     | Strategic     
 Financing and 
 M&A Committee |
| Timothy J. Dunn (Class I)*             |     | C         |     | M            |     |                          |     | M             |
| Prof. Dr. Bernd Gottschalk (Class III) |     | M         |     |              |     | C                        |     |               |
| Jonathon B. Husby (Class III)          |     | M         |     | M            |     |                          |     | C             |
| Sue E. Zeifman (Class I)               |     |           |     | C            |     | M                        |     |               |

C = Committee Chair M = Member * = Lead Independent Director Audit Committee Our Audit Committee met four (4) times in 2024. Our Audit Committee is responsible for, among other matters:

| • | reviewing the audit plans and findings of our independent registered public accounting firm and our internal audit and risk review staff, as well as the results of regulatory examinations, and tracks management’s corrective action plans where necessary; |

| • | reviewing our financial statements, including any significant financial items and/or changes in accounting policies, with our senior management and independent registered public accounting firm; |

| • | reviewing our financial risk and control procedures, compliance programs and significant tax, legal, and regulatory matters; |

| • | approving all audit and permissible non-audit services to be performed by our independent registered public accounting firm; |

| • | having the sole discretion to annually appoint our independent registered public accounting firm, evaluate its independence and performance and set clear hiring policies for employees or former employees of the independent registered public accounting firm; and |

| • | reviewing and approving in advance any proposed related party transactions. |

Our Audit Committee consists of Timothy J. Dunn, Prof. Dr. Bernd Gottschalk, and Jonathon B. Husby, with Mr. Dunn chairing this Committee. Rule