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Item 9B. Other Information

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Item 9B. Other Information

Trading Arrangements

None of our officers or directors adopted or terminated a Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement or a non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement (as defined in Item 408(c) of Regulation S-K) during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2024.

Change of Control Agreements

On May 21, 2024, our Board of Directors approved a form of Change of Control Severance Agreement (the “Severance Agreement”) and authorized the Company to enter into such an agreement with Ganesh Moorthy, our Chief Executive Officer and President; Richard Simoncic, our Chief Operating Officer and J. Eric Bjornholt, our Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. The Severance Agreement provides that following the termination of employment under certain conditions (as described below) within the period beginning three months prior to a change of control of the company and ending on the two-year anniversary of the change of control (the “change of control period”), the executive’s employment is terminated by the company other than for “cause,” death or disability, or the executive resigns for “good reason,” then the executive will be entitled to receive:

  • a lump sum payment equal to twenty four months (for Mr. Moorthy) and eighteen months (for Messrs. Simoncic and Bjornholt) of his then-current annual base salary;

  • a lump sum payment equal to two hundred percent (200%) (for Mr. Moorthy) and one hundred and fifty percent (150%) (for Messrs. Simoncic and Bjornholt) of the employee’s highest annual incentive compensation amount paid during any of the preceding three (3) full plan years;

  • a lump sum payment representing the cost of COBRA premiums for medical, vision and dental coverage for the employee and employee’s eligible dependents for twenty-four months (for Mr. Moorthy) and eighteen months (for Messrs. Simoncic and Bjornholt); and

  • accelerated vesting as to one hundred percent (100%) of the employee’s outstanding equity awards subject to service-based vesting and accelerated vesting of outstanding equity awards subject to performance-based vesting criteria at the greater of target performance or the amount provided under the terms of the individual award agreement.

The Severance Agreement conditions receipt of the severance payments and benefits under the agreement on the executive entering into a release of claims in favor of the company.

The Severance Agreement will supersede and replace the terms of the existing change in control severance agreements with Mr. Moorthy, Mr. Simoncic and Mr. Bjornholt. The Severance Agreement effects certain changes to the existing change of control agreements for such executives including, for each such executive, the elimination of the payment to cover excise taxes under Section 4999 of the Internal Revenue Code if the payments provided in the change of control agreement result in “parachute payments” under Section 280G of the Internal Revenue Code and, for Mr. Bjornholt, the elimination of single-trigger vesting of all equity compensation upon a change of control.

The foregoing description of the form of Severance Agreement to be entered into with the executives specified above is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the form of Change in Control Severance Agreement, a copy of which is filed with this Annual Report on Form 10-K as Exhibit 10.27.

Board Member Retirement

On May 20, 2024, Wade Meyercord informed us of his retirement from our Board of Directors effective immediately prior to our Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on August 20, 2024.

We thank Mr. Meyercord for his many years of service on the Board of Directors.

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