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Turtle Beach Corp

For the period ended Jun 11, 2024. Filed Apr 29, 2024.

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Jun 11, 2024 · Filed Apr 29, 2024

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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

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Terry Jimenez Chairman of the BoardTurtle Beach 2024 Stockholder Letter April 29, 2024 Dear Fellow Turtle Beach Stockholders: We are pleased to invite you to the 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”) of Turtle Beach Corporation (“we,” us,” or “Turtle Beach”). Details regarding how to participate in the webcast of the Annual Meeting and the business to be conducted at the Annual Meeting are provided in the accompanying Notice of Annual Meeting of Stockholders and Proxy Statement. At the Annual Meeting, we will ask you to: (1) elect eight director nominees named in the attached proxy statement to our Board of Directors (the “Board”); (2) ratify the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2024; and (3) approve, on a non-binding advisory basis, the compensation of our named executive officers. At the Annual Meeting, which will be held virtually, you will be able to vote your shares electronically and submit your questions. The Board unanimously recommends that you vote “FOR” the election of Terry Jimenez, L. Gregory Ballard, Cris Keirn, David Muscatel, Katherine L. Scherping, Julia W. Sze, Andrew Wolfe, Ph.D., and William Wyatt. Whether you intend to virtually attend the Annual Meeting or not, we hope you will vote as soon as possible. Thank you for being a stockholder of Turtle Beach. We believe the future is bright as we execute on our proven strategy to drive growth and build on our innovative expansion of gaming categories and products. We appreciate your continued partnership and support. Sincerely, /s/ Terry Jimenez Terry Jimenez Chairman of the Board Turtle Beach Corporation

44 South Broadway, 4th Floor White Plains, New York 10601

NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS

Virtual Meeting Only www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/HEAR2024Meeting on: Tuesday, June 11, 202412:00 P.M. ETFor Stockholders as of: Close of Business April 25, 2024

Dear Stockholder:

You are cordially invited to attend the 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”) of Turtle Beach Corporation (“we,” “us,” or the “Company”), which will be held online at 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time on June 11, 2024. We will hold our Annual Meeting in a virtual meeting format only via the Internet (noin-person meeting). As a result, more stockholders will be able to participate without traveling. Stockholders will be able to listen, vote, and submit questions from any remote location with Internet connectivity. Information on how to participate in the Annual Meeting can be found on the first page of the accompanying proxy statement (the “Proxy Statement”). The Annual Meeting will be accessible at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/HEAR2024. At the Annual Meeting, we will ask you to:

1.Vote to elect eight members to the Board of Directors to serve until the next annual meeting of stockholders and until their successors are duly elected and qualified (Item 1);
2.Vote to ratify the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2024 (Item 2);
3.Vote in an advisory manner on the compensation of our named executive officers (“Named Executive Officers”) (Item 3).

We will also ask you to transact such other business that is properly brought in front of and presented at the Annual Meeting and any adjournments or postponements thereof.

Additional details regarding the Annual Meeting, the business to be conducted, and information about the Company that you should consider when you vote your shares are described in the accompanying Proxy Statement. You may vote if you were a record owner of Turtle Beach Corporation common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”), at the close of business on April 25, 2024.

All stockholders are cordially invited to virtually attend the Annual Meeting. You will be able to virtually attend and participate in the Annual Meeting, vote your shares electronically, and submit your questions during the meeting by visiting the website address listed above on the meeting date and time described in the accompanying Proxy Statement. Whether you plan to virtually attend the Annual Meeting or not, it is important that your shares be represented at the Annual Meeting, regardless of the number of shares you may hold. Even though you may plan to attend the Annual Meeting virtually, please promptly vote using one of the following methods:

1.by telephone, by calling the toll-free telephone number printed on your Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials;
2.via the Internet, by accessing the website address printed on your Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials; or
3.by mail, by completing, signing and dating your Proxy Card and mailing it (if you received a printed copy of the proxy materials).

Voting by any of these methods will not prevent you from attending the Annual Meeting. You may change or revoke your proxy at any time before it is voted. Your vote is extremely important, and we appreciate you taking the time to vote promptly.

If your brokerage firm, bank, broker-dealer or other similar organization is the holder of record of your shares (i.e., your shares are held in “street name”), you will receive a voting instruction form from the holder of record. You must provide voting instructions by filling out the voting instruction form in order for your shares to be voted. We recommend that you instruct your broker or other nominee to vote your shares in the manner directed by them.

The Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”) strongly and unanimously recommends that you vote“FOR” the election of Terry Jimenez, L. Gregory Ballard, Cris Keirn, David Muscatel, Katherine L. Scherping, Julia W. Sze, Andrew Wolfe, Ph.D., and William Wyatt as directors of the Company,“FOR” the ratification of the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, and“FOR” the compensation of the Named Executive Officers.

The nominees of the Board for election as directors of the Company are listed in the accompanying Proxy Statement and Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials. IT IS IMPORTANT THAT YOUR SHARES BE REPRESENTED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT YOU PLAN TO VIRTUALLY ATTEND. ACCORDINGLY, AFTER READING THE ACCOMPANYING PROXY STATEMENT, PLEASE FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS ON THE NOTICE OF INTERNET AVAILABILITY OF PROXY MATERIALS AND PROMPTLY SUBMIT YOUR PROXY BY INTERNET, TELEPHONE OR PROXY CARD (IF YOURECEIVED A PRINTED COPY OF THE PROXY MATERIALS). PLEASE NOTE THAT EVEN IF YOU PLAN TO VIRTUALLY ATTEND THE ANNUAL MEETING, WE RECOMMEND THAT YOU VOTE PRIOR TO THE ANNUAL MEETING TO ENSURE THAT YOUR SHARES WILL BE REPRESENTED. EVEN IF YOU VOTE YOUR SHARES PRIOR TO THE ANNUAL MEETING, IF YOU ARE A RECORD HOLDER OF SHARES, OR A BENEFICIAL HOLDER WHO OBTAINS A “LEGAL” PROXY FROM YOUR BROKER, BANK, TRUSTEE, OR NOMINEE, YOU STILL MAY VIRTUALLY ATTEND THE ANNUAL MEETING AND VOTE YOUR SHARES.

Regardless of the number of shares of Common Stock of the Company that you own, your vote will be important. Thank you for your continued support, interest and investment in Turtle Beach Corporation.

A Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials will be first sent or made available to our stockholders on or about April 29, 2024, and the proxy materials relating to the Annual Meeting will first be made available on or about the same date.

IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING THE AVAILABILITY OF PROXY MATERIALS FOR THE ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS TO BE HELD ON JUNE 11, 2024. We have elected to furnish our Proxy Statement and our 2023 Annual Report (the “Annual Report”) to certain of our stockholders over the Internet pursuant to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) rules. Beginning on April 29, 2024, we will release to certain stockholders the Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials containing instructions on how to access the Proxy Statement and Annual Report online. The Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials contains instructions as to how you may elect to receive printed copies of the Proxy Statement and the Annual Report. For stockholders who have elected to receive printed copies of our proxy materials, the Proxy Statement and Annual Report will first be mailed on or about April 29, 2024. This Notice of Annual Meeting of Stockholders provides an overview of the matters to be voted upon at the Annual Meeting. The Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials, Proxy Statement, and the Company’s Annual Report to Stockholders (which includes the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023) contain important information and are available free of charge at www.viewourmaterial.com/HEAR. Information on this website, other than the accompanying Proxy Statement, is not a part of the accompanying Proxy Statement. Only stockholders who held our Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share, as of the close of business on April 25, 2024 (the “Record Date”), are entitled to receive notice of, and vote at, the Annual Meeting. Please vote as soon as possible. Submitting your proxy now will not prevent you from voting your shares at the Annual Meeting, as your proxy is revocable at your option. If you do not plan on voting at the Annual Meeting, please submit your proxy prior to 11:59 p.m., Eastern Time, on June 10, 2024. ******************** The accompanying Proxy Statement provides a detailed description of the business to be conducted at the Annual Meeting. We urge you to read the accompanying Proxy Statement, including any appendices, carefully and in their entirety.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

/s/ Terry Jimenez

Terry Jimenez

Chairman of the Board

April 29, 2024

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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ABOUT THE MEETING1
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE7
Board Leadership Structure7
The Board’s Role in Environmental, Social, & Governance (“ESG”) Oversight7
The Board’s Role in Risk Oversight8
Independence8
Conflicts of Interest and Corporate Governance Matters9
Code of Business Conduct and Ethics9
Anti-Hedging and Pledging Policy9
Communications with the Board of Directors9
Meetings of the Board of Directors and Stockholders9
Committees of the Board of Directors10
SUBMISSIONOF STOCKHOLDER PROPOSALS AND DIRECTOR NOMINATIONS12
ITEM 1—ELECTION OF DIRECTORS13
Board Diversity15
Nominees for Director16
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS20
SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT21
AUDIT COMMITTEE REPORT23
ITEM 2—RATIFICATION OF APPOINTMENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM25
ITEM 3—ADVISORY VOTE ON THE COMPENSATION OF THE COMPANY’S NAMED EXECUTIVE OFFICERS27
COMPENSATION DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS28
Introduction28
Executive Summary28
Executive Compensation Philosophy and Objectives32
Compensation-Setting Process33
Compensation Elements35
Other Compensation Policies44
Risks Related to Our Compensation Policies and Practices45
Tax and Accounting Considerations45
COMPENSATION COMMITTEE INTERLOCKS AND INSIDER PARTICIPATION46
COMPENSATION COMMITTEE REPORT47
EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION48
2023 Summary Compensation Table48
Grants of Plan-Based Awards Table49
2023 Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End Table50
2023 Option Exercises and Stock Vested Table51

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CEO Pay Ratio51
Employment Arrangements52
Post-Employment Compensation Arrangements52
Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control53
PAY VERSUS PERFORMANCE55
2023 Pay-Versus-Performance Table55
Financial Performance Measures57
Relationship Between Compensation Actually Paid and Performance Measures57
DIRECTOR COMPENSATION61
CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS63
DELINQUENT SECTION 16(a) REPORTS65
HOUSEHOLDING65
OTHER BUSINESS65
2024 Proxy Statementii

TURTLE BEACH CORPORATION

44 South Broadway, 4 th Floor

White Plains, New York 10601

PROXY STATEMENT

FOR ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS

TO BE HELD JUNE 11, 2024

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