EXTREME NETWORKS INC

Our Board of Directors (our “Board”) is soliciting your proxy for the 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on Thursday, November 14, 2024, or at any postponements or adjournments of the meeting, for the purposes set forth in the accompanying Notice of Annual Meeting of Stockholders. This proxy statement and related materials are first being made available to stockholders on or about September 27, 2024. References in this proxy statement to the “Company,” “we,” “our,” “us” and “Extreme Networks” are to Extreme Networks, Inc., and references to the “Annual Meeting” or the “2024 Annual Meeting” are to the 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. When we refer to the Company’s fiscal year, we mean the annual period ending on June 30. This proxy statement covers our 2024 fiscal year, which began on July 1, 2023 and ended on June 30, 2024 (“fiscal 2024”).