Company: BWNB
Filing Date: 2025-04-21
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-036850
Chunk: 86

Company: Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-21
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 86
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ation and Bylaws; (5) “FOR” the ratification of the appointment of BDO USA, P.C. as our independent registered public accounting firm; and (6) “FOR” the approval, on a non-binding advisory basis, of the compensation of our named executive officers in the discretion of the proxy holders upon such other business as may properly come before the Annual Meeting. If you are a stockholder of record and you do not return your proxy, no votes will be cast on your behalf on any of the items of business at the Annual Meeting. For beneficial owners of shares held in street name, the brokers, banks, or nominees holding shares for beneficial owners must vote those shares as instructed. Absent instructions from you, brokers, banks and nominees may vote 58 TABLE OF CONTENTS your shares only as they decide as to matters for which they have discretionary authority under the applicable NYSE rules. A broker, bank or nominee does not have discretion to vote on the election of directors or approval of executive compensation. If you do not instruct your broker, bank or nominee how to vote on those matters, no votes will be cast on your behalf on the election of directors or the advisory vote on executive compensation. Your broker will be entitled to vote your shares in its discretion, absent instructions from you, on the ratification of the appointment of BDO USA, P.C. as our independent registered public accounting firm. Any shares of our common stock held in the Thrift Plan that are not voted or for which Vanguard does not receive timely voting instructions, will be voted in the same proportion as the shares for which Vanguard receives timely voting instructions from other participants in the Thrift Plan. We are not aware of any other matters that may be presented or acted on at the Annual Meeting. If you vote by signing and returning the enclosed proxy card or using the Internet or telephone voting procedures, the individuals named as proxies on the card may vote your shares, in their discretion, on any other matter requiring a stockholder vote that comes before the Annual Meeting. Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials Pursuant to rules adopted by the SEC, we have elected to provide access to our proxy materials over the Internet. Accordingly, we are sending a Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials to our stockholders. All stockholders will have the ability to access the proxy materials on the website referred to in the Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials or request to receive an electronic copy or printed set of the proxy materials. Instructions on how to access the proxy materials over the