PROPOSAL 1: ELECTION OF DIRECTOR NOMINEES
At the Annual Meeting, stockholders of the Company are being asked to consider the election of the eleven nominees named below. Pursuant to the Company’s Bylaws, the number of directors on the Board may not be fewer than the minimum number required by the Maryland General Corporation Law, which is one, or greater than twelve. Directors of the Company are elected annually for a term of one year, and serve until the next annual meeting of stockholders and until their successors are duly elected and qualified. The Board is currently comprised of nine directors.
Each director nominee named below has been nominated for election by the Board to serve aone-year term until the 2019 annual meeting of stockholders and until his or her successor is duly elected and qualified: (i) Barbara Adams, (ii) Frederick Arnold, (iii) Todd Builione, (iv) Brian R. Ford, (v) Michael C. Forman, (vi) Richard Goldstein, (vii) Michael J. Hagan, (viii) Jeffrey K. Harrow, (ix) Jerel A. Hopkins, (x) James H. Kropp and (xi) Joseph P. Ujobai.
Each director nominee has agreed to serve as a director if elected and has consented to being named as a nominee. No person being nominated as a director is being proposed for election pursuant to any agreement or understanding between such person and the Company.
A stockholder can vote for, or withhold his or her vote from, any or all of the director nominees.In the absence of instructions to the contrary, it is the intention of the persons named as proxies to vote such proxy FOR the election of each of the director nominees named above. If any of the director nominees should decline or be unable to serve as a director, the persons named as proxies will vote for such other nominee as may be proposed by the Board’s Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. The Board has no reason to believe that any of the persons named as director nominees will be unwilling or unable to serve.
Information about the Board and Director Nominees
The role of the Board is to provide general oversight of the Company’s business affairs and to exercise all of the Company’s powers except those reserved for the stockholders. The responsibilities of the Board also include, among other things, the oversight of the Company’s investment activities, the quarterly valuation of the Company’s assets, oversight of the Company’s financing arrangements and corporate governance activities.
A majority of the members of the Board are not “interested persons,” as defined in Section 2(a)(19) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), of the Company or FS/KKR Advisor, LLC, the Company’s investment adviser (the “Advisor”), and are “independent” as defined by Rule 303A.00 in the NYSE Listed Company Manual. These individuals are referred to as the Company’s independent directors (the “Independent Directors”). Section 2(a)(19) of the 1940 Act defines an “interested person” to include, among other things, any person who has, or within the last two years had, a material business or professional relationship with the Company. The members of the Board who are not Independent Directors are referred to as interested directors (the “Interested Directors”).
The Board is currently comprised of eight directors, six of whom are Independent Directors. Messrs. D’Alessio, Lederman, Rose, Sommer and Stuart and Ms. Fouss have not been nominated forre-election at the Annual Meeting. The Board has determined that the following directors and director nominees are, or if applicable, will be, Independent Directors: Ms. Adams, Ms. Fouss and Messrs. Arnold, D’Alessio, Ford, Goldstein, Hagan, Harrow, Hopkins, Kropp, Lederman, Rost, Sommer, Stuart and Ujobai. Based upon information requested from each director nominee concerning his or her background, employment and affiliations, the Board has affirmatively determined that none of the Independent Director nominees has, or within the last two years had, a material business or professional relationship with the Company, other than, if applicable, in his or her capacity as a member of the Board or any Board committee or as a stockholder. If each of the director nominees is elected, the Board will be comprised of eleven directors, nine of whom will be Independent Directors.
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