Item 5.03 Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.
OnJanuary 19, 2021 ,R1 RCM Inc. (the "Company") filed a Certificate of Elimination of 8.00% Series A Convertible Preferred Stock ("Certificate of Elimination") with the Secretary of State of theState of Delaware to eliminate the Certificate of Designations of the 8.00% Series A Convertible Preferred Stock. All outstanding shares of the Company's 8.00% Series A Convertible Preferred Stock ("Series A Preferred Stock") have been converted into shares of common stock of the Company, and no shares of the Series A Preferred Stock are issued or outstanding. A copy of the Certificate of Elimination is filed as Exhibit 3.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
(c) On January 15, 2021,
Mr. Sparby , age 45, had been serving as Executive Vice President, Customer Operations of the Company sinceJanuary 2017 .Mr. Sparby joined the Company inJanuary 2004 as Customer Executive and has since served the Company as Shared Services Operating Executive fromJanuary 2008 toDecember 2010 , General Manager,East Region fromJanuary 2011 toDecember 2013 , Senior Vice President, Customer Operations fromJanuary 2014 toDecember 2016 , and Executive Vice President, Customer Operations fromJanuary 2017 toDecember 2020 . Prior to joining the Company,Mr. Sparby spent six years atStockamp & Associates leading large-scale, end to end revenue cycle re-engineering projects for primarily academic health systems achieving significant income statement and balance sheet improvements. In connection withMr. Sparby's appointment as Executive Vice President, Operations & Delivery and Chief Operating Officer, the Human Capital Committee (the "Committee") of the Board of Directors of the Company approved the following compensation forMr. Sparby :Mr. Sparby's base salary will be$500,000 per annum,Mr. Sparby's annual target bonus opportunity under the annual cash incentive program will be 100% of base salary, and the target amount of his annual equity grants for 2021 will be 200% of base salary.Mr. Sparby is also eligible to participate in the employee benefit programs of the Company generally available to senior executives of the Company.Mr. Sparby is a party to the Company's Letter Agreement for Executive Vice Presidents setting forth employment terms (the "Letter Agreement"), the form of which is filed as Exhibit 10.13 to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year endedDecember 31, 2019 . Pursuant to the Letter Agreement, in the event thatMr. Sparby's employment with the Company is terminated by the Company without Cause (as defined in the Letter Agreement), in addition to any earned but unpaid salary and his accrued and vested benefits under the employee benefit programs of the Company, which are payable upon any termination of employment,Mr. Sparby also will be entitled to receive continued salary and health benefits for a period of 12 months following the date of such termination, subject toMr. Sparby's compliance with the release requirements, all post-termination obligations to the Company, and the mitigation provisions of the Letter Agreement. The Letter Agreement provides for non-competition and non-solicitation covenants that prohibitMr. Sparby from engaging in certain restricted activities (including competition and solicitation of employees and customers of the Company) for 12 months (in the case of the non-competition covenant) or 18 months (in the case of the non-solicitation covenant) following his termination of service with the Company.Mr. Sparby will also be subject to confidentiality restrictions and inventions assignment obligations applicable during and after the period of his service with the Company that protect the Company's proprietary information. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In addition, the Company has an indemnification agreement withMr. Sparby in the form that the Company has entered into with its directors and other executive officers. Such agreement provides that the Company will indemnifyMr. Sparby to the fullest extent permitted by law for claims arising in his capacity as an executive officer of the Company, provided that he acted in good faith and in a manner that he reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the Company's best interests and, with respect to any criminal proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was unlawful. In the event that the Company does not assume the defense of a claim againstMr. Sparby , the Company will be required to advance his expenses in connection with his defense, provided that he undertakes to repay all amounts advanced if it is ultimately determined that he is not entitled to be indemnified by the Company. There are no arrangements or understandings betweenMr. Sparby and any other persons, pursuant to which he was appointed to the offices described above and no family relationships among any of the Company's directors or executive officers andMr. Sparby . Additionally,Mr. Sparby does not have any direct or indirect interest in any transaction that would require disclosure pursuant to Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K. (e) OnJanuary 16, 2021 , the Committee approved an increase in the compensation ofGary Long , the Company's Executive Vice President, Chief Commercial Officer.Mr. Long's base salary will be increased from$460,000 to$500,000 per annum. The target amount ofMr. Long's annual equity grants for 2021 will be increased from 100% to 200% of base salary. Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits. (d) Exhibit Number Description 3.1 Certificate of Elimination of 8.00%
Series A Convertible Preferred
Stock, datedJanuary 19, 2021 104 Cover Page Interactive Data File - the cover page iXBRL tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL document.
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