Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors;
Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
On November 13, 2020, LightPath Technologies, Inc. (the "Company," "we," "us,"
or "our") entered into a letter agreement (the "Letter") with J. James Gaynor,
our former President and Chief Executive Officer, relating to additional
compensation to be paid to Mr. Gaynor in the amount of $400,000 (the "Cash
Award"), which amount was intended to partially compensate Mr. Gaynor for the
loss of certain expired stock options. The Cash Award will be paid in three
equal payments on November 16, 2020, January 15, 2020, and April 15, 2021. The
Letter also confirmed the amount of incentive compensation of $43,000 that Mr.
Gaynor earned during fiscal 2020, which amount will be paid on November 20,
2020.
The Letter contained standard release provisions and confirmed that the Letter
did not otherwise amend or modify Mr. Gaynor's Amendment to Employment Letter
dated March 13, 2020 and Employment Letter dated June 10, 2008.
The foregoing description of the Letter is not complete and is qualified in its
entirety by reference to the full text of the Letter, a copy of which will be
filed as an exhibit to the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
period ended December 31, 2020.
Item 5.07. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.
On November 12, 2020, we held the Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the
"Meeting"). A total of 26,012,831 shares of Class A common stock were issued and
outstanding as of the record date of the Meeting, September 16, 2020, and a
total of 20,236,542 shares of Class A common stock were present or represented
by proxy and voted at the Meeting, constituting a quorum. The following
proposals were voted on at the Meeting, as described in greater detail in the
Definitive Proxy Statement, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission on October 1, 2020 (the "Proxy Statement"):
Proposal 1 - To elect Class III directors to the Company's Board of Directors.
Our stockholders duly elected Mr. Leeburg, Mr. Dunham, and Mr. Rubin by at least
a plurality of the votes cast, to serve until his successor is elected and
qualified or until his earlier resignation or removal. The results of the voting
were as follows:
For Withheld Broker Non-Votes
Louis Leeburg 8,523,052 1,649,509 10,063,981
Craig Dunham 8,716,609 1,455,952 10,063,981
Shmuel Rubin 8,682,801 1,489,760 10,063,981
Proposal 2 - To hold a stockholder advisory vote on the compensation of our
named executive officers disclosed in the Proxy Statement under the section
titled "Executive Compensation," including the compensation tables and other
narrative executive compensation disclosures therein, required by Item 402 of
Securities and Exchange Commission Regulation S-K. Our stockholders approved, on
a non-binding, advisory basis, the executive compensation of the Company's named
executive officers. The results of the voting were as follows:
For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes
8,857,335 776,871 538,355 10,063,981
Proposal 3 - To ratify the selection of MSL, P.A. as the Company's independent
registered public accounting firm. Our stockholders ratified the selection of
MSL, P.A. as our independent registered public accounting firm. The results of
the voting were as follows:
For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes
19,809,643 356,000 70,899 0
Item 7.01. Regulation FD Disclosure.
We gave a presentation at the meeting. A copy of the presentation is available
at www.lightpath.com/presentations.
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