MAIA Biotechnology, Inc. (MAIA) May 21, 2026 Annual General Meeting Transcript

Hello and welcome to Maya Biotechnology, Inc. annual meeting. I'd now like to hand the call over to Dr. Vlad Vitoch, Chairman, CEO and President. Please go ahead.

Thank you.

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I am Vlad Vitoch. I will be chairing this annual meeting. I hereby call this annual meeting of stockholders to order. On behalf of my fellow officers and directors, it is my pleasure to welcome you. Because the 2026 annual meeting is being held virtually, registered shareholders who have not already voted by proxy can do so during the meeting by clicking the vote here section on your screen and entering your control ID and request ID, which appears on the proxy materials previously sent to you. If you have already voted your shares by proxy prior to the meeting, you do not need to do anything at this time. We will conduct a business portion of our meeting first and answer questions at the end of the meeting. Though we may not be able to answer every question, we will do our best to provide a response to as many as possible and will address any unanswered questions on our corporate website shortly after the meeting. If you would like to ask a question or request to inspect the shareholder registry, please use the section on the bottom of the screen to ask those questions. Also joining us today are the following independent members of the board of directors of the company. Ms. Adelina Luingai, chair of the audit committee and chair of the nominating and corporate Governance Committee, Mr. Steven Chauky, Ramiro Guerrero, Christian Luputz, and Jean Manasseh Tergen, and Dr. Stan Smith, Chair of the Compensation Committee. Members of the company's executive management team are also in attendance, Mr. Jeffrey Himmelreich, Head of Finance, and Dr. Sergei Gryasnov, Chief Scientific Officer. Also, Mr. Marcel Mitsunaga, Executive Director, Data Analytics, and Joe Visea, the company's corporate secretary. We have Mr. Greg Carney of Shepard Mountain, the company's legal counsel. Joe Heatherly and Matt Williams of Grant Thornton LLP, the company's independent public accountants. Lastly, Mr. Christopher Mitchell and Ms. Alexandria Hawkins of Broadridge Financial Solutions Incorporated are attending as well. I have asked Joe Visaya to act as secretary of this annual meeting and to record the minutes of the meeting. Before considering the business to be discussed, I would like Mr. Visaya to report on the formal steps taken in connection with this annual meeting.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

The Board of Directors has adopted resolutions which provide this annual meeting to be held today and which fix the close of business on March 23rd, 2026 as the record date for the determination of stockholders entitled to notice of and to vote at this annual meeting. I hereby present the affidavit of Joanne Bogle, an employee of Broadwood Financial Solutions, Inc., which states that the notice of the annual meeting of stockholders, proxy statement, annual report on Form 10-K, and proxy card were mailed on April 7, 2026, to each holder of the company's common stock at the close of the business on the record date. I also submit a certified list of stockholders of the company's common stock as of the record date that was compiled by Computer Share and is available for inspection here today. The list set forth each stockholder's address and holdings as they appear on the records of Computer Share and on the company's share ledger. According to the list, there were 60,671,491 shares of common stock issued in outstanding on the record date. Each outstanding share of common stock is entitled to one vote per share on the matters presented at this meeting.

Thank you Mr. Visaya. I would like you to file the affidavit as to the mailing of the proxy material in the minute book of the company with the minutes of this annual meeting. It is 10.05 a.m. Central Time on Thursday, May 21st, 2026, and the polls are open. Any stockholder who hasn't yet voted or wishes to change their vote may do so by clicking on the voting button on the web portal following the instructions here. stockholders who have sent in proxies or voted via telephone or internet and do not want to change their vote do not need to take any further action joe visea the company's corporate secretary was appointed to act as inspector of election of this meeting by the company's board of directors on March 13, 2026. The inspector has executed an oath to carry out his duties impartially and to the best of his ability.

Mr. Chairman, I present to you the oath I have signed as inspector of election.

Thank you.

The oath of the inspector of election will be filed with the minutes of this annual meeting. Will the inspector of election now provide us with account of the stockholders present in person or by proxy?

Mr. Chairman, I can report that a preliminary count indicates the presence of a quorum. I'm in the process of completing the counts of all stockholders present in person by remote communication or by proxy and will render an exact report following the annual meeting.

Thank you.

Since the holders of record of at least the majority of the outstanding shares of common stock entitled to vote at this annual meeting are present in person by remote communication or by proxy, I declare that a quorum is present. The first order of business is the election of Adelina Louie Ngai and Steven Chauke to our board of directors as class one directors of the company. this is the board of election proposal the persons receiving an affirmative vote representing a plurality of the vote of the holders of the shares present in person by remote communication or represented by proxy at the annual meeting and entitled to vote generally on the election of directors will hold that position until the 2029 annual meeting of stockholders or until their successors are duly elected and qualified. I hereby open the floor for nominations.

Mr. Chairman, as a stockholder of records of the company, I, Christian Luput, hereby nominate Adelina Louis Ngari and Stephen Chauke for election as class 1 directors to each serve for a three-year plan.

I, Stan V. Smith, second the nomination. Thank you.

We have received nominations to elect Adelina Luenga E. and Stephen Chalki to serve as Class 1 directors of the company for a three-year term. If there are no further nominations, I will entertain a motion that the nominations for the election of directors be closed.

I, Christian Luput, move that the nominations for election of directors be closed.

And I, Stan V. Smith, second the motion.

Thank you. The second order of business is the ratification of the appointment of Grant Thornton LLP as the company's independent auditors for the fiscal year ending December 31st, 2026. This is the auditor's ratification proposal. This proposal needs to be approved by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the shares of stock present in person, by remote communication, or represented by proxy at the annual meeting and voting on this matter.

I will entertain a motion for the auditor's ratification proposal. I, Christian Luput, so move. I, Stan V. Smith, second the motion.

Are there any other matters to be brought before this meeting?

Not hearing any other matters and everyone having had the opportunity to vote I declare the polls for the annual stockholder meeting are closed now I would like to have the inspector of election share his report showing a preliminary count of the stock represented here today in person and by proxy and the tally of votes cast in regards to each proposal thank you Mr. Chairman as the inspector of election, I hereby report that there are 37,547,754 shares of common stock entitled to vote represented at this meeting either in person by remote communication or by proxy comprising

approximately 61.88% of outstanding common stock in the company. In voting for directors, I hereby report that Adelina, Louie, Nagar, Yee, and Steven Schauke each received the plurality of the votes cast. In voting for the auditor ratification proposal, I hereby report that a majority of the shares of Comstock represented in person by remote communication or by proxy with respect to this proposal and voting on the matter were voted in favor of the proposal.

Thank you, Joe.

I declare that Adelina Luingari and Steven Chalki have been elected as class one directors of the company to serve for a three-year term. And the appointment of Grant Thornton LLP as independent directors auditors of the company for the fiscal year ending December 31st, 2026 has been ratified. Now we would like to open things up for stockholders questions and comments we will take stockholders questions that are being entered today on the web portal please note we will attend to answer as many questions as time allows but only questions that are germane to the meeting will be addressed any questions that we do not get with to that we do not get to or will be addressed on our company website okay so there being no further questions or business to come before this meeting I will entertain a motion to adjourn this annual meeting of stockholders i uh christian luput move that the annual meeting be adjourned a second i are samsung naga second emotion there being no difference to the motion made to adjourn this annual meeting i hereby declare this annual meeting adjourned thank you to all and uh we'll see you at the next opportunity bye-bye thank

Thank you for attending today's meeting, you may now disconnect.