Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors;
Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
New Director Appointment
On January 25, 2023, the Board of Directors of Astra Space, Inc. (the "Company")
appointed Julie Cullivan, as an independent director and as a member of the
Board of Directors. Ms. Cullivan's appointment is effective on February 1, 2023,
and she will serve as Class II director for a term expiring at the 2025 annual
meeting of stockholders (coterminous with the other Class II director). Ms.
Cullivan was also appointed as a member of the Company's Audit Committee.
Ms. Cullivan currently serves a special advisor to Brighton Park Capital, an
investment firm specializing in the technology and healthcare sectors, joining
there in 2020. From 2017 through 2021, she was the Chief Technology and People
Officer at Forescout Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of compliance and
cybersecurity for all connected devices, reporting to the CEO, where she was
responsible for leading the company's business model transformation, information
technology strategy, security risk and compliance program, customer production
operations, and human resources.
Prior to Forescout, Ms. Cullivan was the EVP, Business Operations and CIO at
FireEye, Inc. Ms. Cullivan was a member of the executive team that set the
company's strategy and helped scale FireEye from a private company with $80
million in revenue, through its successful IPO, to a global publicly traded
company with revenues of over $700 million and a $2.7 billion valuation.
Since 2017, Ms. Cullivan has served as a director for Axon Enterprise Inc.
(Nasdaq: AXON), a leader in global public safety technology, where she is a
member of the Audit Committee and chairs its Enterprise Risk and Information
Security Committee. She also serves on the board of directors of Heartflow,
Inc., a medical software company.
Ms. Cullivan has a B.S. degree in Finance from Santa Clara University.
Item 8.01 Other events
On January 27, 2023, the Company issued a press release announcing the
appointment of Ms. Cullivan to the Board. A copy of the press release is
attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits
Exhibit No. Description
99.1 Press release dated January 27, 2023, announcing appointment of new
director
104 Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded with the Inline XBRL
document)
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