Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
In order to re-incentivize and retain its employees, on
The board considered a number of factors in adopting the Repricing, including the following:
? Most of our competitors and companies with which we compete for employees are private companies, which are able to offer stock options with very low or nominal exercise prices. As a public company, it is impractical for us to issue stock options with an exercise price below the current market price for our common stock. Therefore, we are at a competitive disadvantage when our employees receive employment offers from our competitors. ? We believe that our employees are currently being paid compensation (including bonuses) at rates that are at the low end of market rates. Thus, we are vulnerable to our employees leaving for higher paid positions, especially when their option exercise prices exceed the current market price for our common stock. ? Because we have only six key employees, we believe that the loss of any one of them could substantially delay the implementation of our business plan to our detriment. ? Many of the options being repriced have significant portions that are currently unvested.
Pursuant to the Repricing, the exercise price of each Relevant Option (as
defined below) was reduced to
The Relevant Options held by our executive officers are set forth in the table
below. The exercise price of each was
Name and Title Number of Options Expiration Date Gert Funk, Executive Chairman 500,000 March 15, 2031Peter M. Jensen , Chief Executive Officer and Director 2,393,842 September 15, 2030 265,982 * February 15, 2031Bennett J. Yankowitz , Chief Financial Officer and Director 500,000 August 8, 2028 500,000 March 15, 2031 Rohan Hall, Chief Technology Officer 500,000 September 14, 2030 600,000 February 1, 2031Kurt Kumar , Vice President, Marketing and Business Development 478,768 February 15, 2031 Scott Klein, Advisory Board Member 24,960 January 1, 2031 Ankit Khullar, Sale Manager 100,000 July 1, 2031 * Consists of a warrant issued outside of the Plan.
We will record the impact of the repricing (which will be a charge to operations
over the remaining terms of the options) in the quarter ending
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