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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF
1933
AutoWeb, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware
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1-34761
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33-0711569
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(State
or other jurisdiction of incorporation)
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(Commission
File Number)
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(IRS
Employer Identification No.)
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18872 MacArthur
Boulevard, Suite 200, Irvine, California
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92612-1400
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(Address
of principal executive offices)
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(Zip
Code)
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Registrant’s telephone number,
including area code (949) 225-4500
Inducement Stock Option Award Agreement
(Full
title of the plan)
Glenn E. Fuller, Esq.
Executive Vice President, Chief Legal and
Administrative
Officer and Secretary
18872 MacArthur Blvd., Suite 200,
Irvine, California 92612-1400
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(Name
and address of agent for service)
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(949) 862-1392
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(Telephone
number of agent for service)
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With a copy to:
Keith Paul Bishop, Esq.
Allen, Matkins, Leck, Gamble, Mallory & Natsis LLP
1900 Main Street, 5th Floor
Irvine, California 92614-7321
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Telephone: (949) 851-5428
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Indicate by check
mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an
accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting
company, or emerging growth company. See the definitions of
“large accelerated filer,” “accelerated
filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and
“emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange
Act.
Large accelerated filer ☐
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Non-accelerated filer ☐ (Do not check if a smaller reporting
company)
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Smaller reporting company ☒
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Emerging growth company ☐
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If
an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the
registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period
for complying with any new or revised financial accounting
standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Exchange
Act.
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CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title
of Securities To Be Registered
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Amount
To
Be
Registered
(1)
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Proposed
Maximum
Offering Price
Per
Share
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Proposed
Maximum
Aggregate
Offering
Price
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Amount
of
Registration
Fee
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Common
Stock, par value $0.001 and associated preferred share purchase
right (2)
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1,000,000
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(3)
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$
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3.26
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(4)
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$
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3,260,000
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405.87
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(1)
The
number of shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the
“Common Stock”),
stated above consists of the aggregate number of shares which may
be sold under the Inducement Stock Option Award Agreement
(Non-Qualified Stock Options) entered into with Jared R. Rowe on
April 12, 2018 (“Inducement
Agreement”). The maximum number of shares which may be
sold under the Inducement Agreement is subject to adjustment in
accordance with certain anti-dilution and other provisions of the
Inducement Agreement. Accordingly, pursuant to Rule 416 under the
Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement includes, in
addition to the number of shares stated above, an indeterminate
number of shares which may be subject to grant or otherwise
issuable after the operation of any such anti-dilution and other
provisions. The preferred share purchase rights, which are attached
to the shares of Common Stock registered hereunder, will be issued
for no additional consideration. Accordingly, no additional
registration fee is required.
(2)
Each
share of Common Stock being registered hereunder, if issued prior
to the termination by the Registrant of its Tax Benefit
Preservation Plan dated May 26, 2010 with Computershare Trust
Company, N.A., as amended by Amendment No. 1 dated as of April 14,
2014 and Amendment No. 2 dated April 13, 2017, includes rights to
acquire Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock. Prior to the
occurrence of certain events, these rights will not be exercisable
or evidenced separately from the Common Stock and have no value
except as reflected in the market price of the shares to which they
are attached.
(3)
Represents
1,000,000 shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to the
Inducement Agreement.
(4)
Such
shares are issuable upon exercise of outstanding options with a
fixed exercise price. Pursuant to Rule 457(h) of the Securities
Act, the aggregate offering price and the fee have been computed
upon the basis of the price at which the option may be exercised,
which was the closing price of a share of Common Stock on the date
of grant of such option as reported on the NASDAQ Capital Market on
April 12, 2018.
PART I
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
The
documents containing the information required by Part I of Form S-8
will be sent or given to the employee as specified by Rule
428(b)(1) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended
(“Securities
Act”). These documents are not required to be and are
not filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
(“Commission”)
either as part of this registration statement or as prospectuses or
prospectus supplements pursuant to Rule 424. These documents and
the documents incorporated by reference in this registration
statement pursuant to Item 3 of Part II of this Form S-8, taken
together, constitute a prospectus that meets the requirements of
Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item
3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
AutoWeb, Inc., a
Delaware corporation (“Registrant”), is subject to the
informational and reporting requirements of Sections 13(a) and 14
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended
(“Exchange
Act”), and in accordance therewith files reports,
proxy statements and other information with the
Commission.
The
following documents, which are on file with the Commission, are
incorporated herein by reference:
(a) The
Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year
ended December 31, 2017, filed on March 15, 2018.
(b) The
Registrant’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarter
ended March 31, 2018, filed on May 10, 2018, and for the quarter
ended June 30, 2018, filed on August 2, 2018.
(c) The
Registrant’s Current Reports on Form 8-K filed on February
20, 2018, March 8, 2018, March 28, 2018, and June 27,
2018.
(d) The
description of the Common Stock and associated preferred share
purchase rights which is contained in the Registrant’s
Registration Statements on Form 8-A filed under the Exchange Act on
March 13, 1997, March 5, 1999, and June 2, 2010.
All
documents subsequently filed by the Registrant with the Commission
pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14, and 15(d) of the Exchange
Act, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this
registration statement which indicates that all securities offered
have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining
unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this
registration statement and to be a part hereof from the date of
filing of such documents with the Commission.
Any
statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be
incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or
superseded for purposes of this registration statement to the
extent that a statement contained herein or in any other
subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be
incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such
statement. Any statement so modified or superseded shall not be
deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part
of this registration statement. Unless expressly incorporated by
reference into this registration statement, a report (or portion
thereof) furnished, but not filed, on Form 8-K under the Exchange
Act is not incorporated by reference into this registration
statement.
Item 4. Description of Securities.
Not
applicable.
Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.
Not
applicable.
Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
Section
145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (“DGCL”) authorizes the Registrant
to indemnify its directors and officers subject to specified
conditions. Section 145 provides that it is not exclusive of other
rights to which a director or officer may be entitled under any
bylaw, agreement, vote of the stockholders or disinterested
directors or otherwise.
Article
IX of the Registrant’s Sixth Restated Certificate of
Incorporation generally requires the Registrant to indemnify to the
fullest extent permitted and in accordance with the laws of
Delaware any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be
made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit
or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or
investigative by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a
director, officer, employee or agent of the Registrant, or is or
was serving at the request of the Registrant as a director,
officer, employee or agent of another enterprise against expenses
(including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts
paid in settlement actually and reasonably occurred provided
specified conditions are met. Article IX also requires (in the case
of a director) and permits (in the case of an officer, employee or
agent) the Registrant to advance expenses incurred in defending a
proceeding upon the receipt of an undertaking to repay the advance
if it is ultimately determined that the person is not entitled to
be indemnified. The rights set forth in Article IX are not
exclusive.
Article
VII of the Registrant’s Seventh Amended and Restated Bylaws
generally requires the Registrant to indemnify to the maximum
extent and in the manner permitted by the DGCL any person who was
or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any
threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding,
whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative by reason
of the fact that the person is or was a director, officer, employee
or agent of the Registrant, or is or was serving at the request of
the Registrant as a director, officer, employee or agent of another
enterprise, or as a member of any committee or similar body,
provided specified conditions are met. Article VII also requires
the Registrant to advance expenses incurred by a present or former
officer or director in defending a proceeding upon receipt of an
undertaking to repay the advance if it is ultimately determined
that the person is not entitled to be indemnified. The Registrant
has entered into agreements to indemnify its directors and officers
to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law. These agreements,
subject to specified conditions, indemnify the Registrant’s
directors and officers for expenses including attorneys’
fees, judgments, fines and settlement amounts incurred by any such
person in any action or proceeding arising out of such
person’s services as an officer or director of the
Registrant.
As
permitted by Section 102(b)(7) of the DGCL, Article IX of the
Registrant’s Sixth Restated Certificate of Incorporation
provides that a director shall not be personally liable to the
Registrant or any stockholder for monetary damages for breach of
fiduciary duty, except for any matter in respect of which that
director (1) is liable under Section 174 of the DGCL (or any
amendment or successor thereto), or (2) is liable by reason that,
in addition to any and all other requirements for liability, the
director: (a) shall have breached the director’s duty of
loyalty to the Registrant or its stockholders; (b) shall not have
acted in good faith or, in failing to act, shall not have acted in
good faith; (c) shall have acted in a manner involving intentional
misconduct or a knowing violation of the law or, in failing to act,
shall have acted in a manner involving intentional misconduct or a
knowing violation of law; or (d) shall have derived an improper
personal benefit.
To the
extent indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities
Act may be permitted to directors, officers or persons controlling
the Registrant as discussed above, the Registrant has been informed
that in the opinion of the Commission such indemnification is
against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is
therefore unenforceable.
A
policy of directors’ and officers’ liability insurance
is maintained by the Registrant that insures directors and officers
for losses as a result of claims against directors and officers of
the Registrant in their capacity as directors and officers and also
reimburses the Registrant for payments permitted by the
DGCL.
Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.
Not
applicable.
Item 8. Exhibits.
Exhibit No.
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Description
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Sixth Restated Certificate of Incorporation
of AutoWeb, Inc., incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.4 to the
Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on October 10, 2017
(SEC File No. 001-34761) (“October 2017 Form
8-K”).
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Seventh Amended and Restated Bylaws of AutoWeb dated October 9,
2017, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.5 to the October 2017
Form 8-K.
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Tax Benefit Preservation Plan dated as of
May 26, 2010, between Company and Computershare Trust Company,
N.A., as rights agent, together with the following exhibits
thereto: Exhibit A – Form of Right Certificate; and Exhibit B
– Summary of Rights to Purchase Shares of Preferred Stock of
Company, incorporated by reference to
Exhibit 4.1
to the Current Report on Form
8-K filed with the SEC on June 2, 2010 (SEC File No. 000-22239),
Amendment No. 1 to Tax Benefit Preservation Plan dated as of April
14, 2014, between Company and Computershare Trust Company, N.A., as
rights agent, incorporated by reference to
Exhibit 4.1
to the Current Report on Form
8-K filed with the SEC on April 16, 2014 (SEC File No. 001-34761),
Amendment No. 2 to Tax Benefit Preservation Plan dated as of April
13, 2017, between Company and Computershare Trust Company, N.A., as
rights agent, incorporated by reference to
Exhibit 4.1
to the Current Report on Form
8-K filed with the SEC on April 14, 2017 (SEC File No.
001-34761).
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Certificate of Adjustment Under Section 11(m) of the Tax Benefit
Preservation Plan, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.3 to the
Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended
September 30, 2012, filed with the SEC on November 8, 2012 (SEC
File No. 001-34761).
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Opinion of Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis
LLP.
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Consent of Moss Adams LLP.
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Consent of Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
(included in Exhibit 5.1).
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Power of Attorney (included on the Signature Page).
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Inducement Stock Option Award Agreement (Non-Qualified Stock
Options), dated April 12, 2018, by and between the Company and
Jared R. Rowe, which is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2
to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on April 18,
2018 (SEC File No. 001-34761).
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* Filed herewith
Item 9. Undertakings.
The
undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:
A.
(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being
made, a post-effective amendment to this registration
statement:
(i) To
include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the
Securities Act;
(ii) To
reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the
effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent
post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the
aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set
forth in the registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the
total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that
which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of
the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form
of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if,
in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more
than 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth
in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the
effective registration statement; and
(iii)
To include any material information with respect to the plan of
distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement
or any material change to such information in the registration
statement;
provided, however, that paragraphs (A)
(1) (i) and (A) (1) (ii) do not apply if the information required
to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is
contained in reports filed or furnished to the Commission by the
Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange
Act that are incorporated by reference in this registration
statement.
(2)
That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed
to be a new registration statement relating to the securities
offered herein, and the offering of such securities at that time
shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering
thereof.
(3) To
remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any
of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the
termination of the offering.
B. The undersigned
Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any
liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the
Registrant’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or
Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each
filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant
to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated by
reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new
registration statement relating to the securities offered therein,
and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to
be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
C.
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and
controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing
provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in
the opinion of the Commission such indemnification is against
public policy as expressed in the Securities Act, and is,
therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by
the Registrant of expenses incurred by a director, officer or
controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of
any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director,
officer or controlling person in connection with the securities
being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its
counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent,
submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question of
whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as
expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final
adjudication of such issue.
Pursuant to the
requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1933, the Registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets
all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused
this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Irvine, State
of California, on August 2, 2018.
Date:
August 2, 2018
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AUTOWEB,
INC.
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By:
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/s/ Glenn E. Fuller |
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Glenn
E. Fuller, Executive Vice President, Chief
Legal
and Administrative Officer and Secretary
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POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW
ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature
appears below constitutes and appoints Jared R. Rowe, Glenn E.
Fuller, and Wesley Ozima, with full power to act without the other,
and each of them, as such person’s true and lawful attorney-
or attorneys-in-fact and agent or agents, with full power of
substitution and re-substitution, for such person and in such
person’s name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to
sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments)
to the registration statement, and to file the same, with all
exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with
the Securities and Exchange Commission and any other regulatory
authority, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and
each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and
every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in
connection therewith, as fully to all intents and purposes as he
might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all
that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their or
such person’s substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or
cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this
registration statement has been signed by the following persons in
the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature
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Title
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Date
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/s/ Michael J. Fuchs
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Chairman of the Board and Director
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August 2, 2018
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MICHAEL J. FUCHS
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/s/ Jared R. Rowe
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Chief Executive Officer, President and Director (Principal
Executive Officer)
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August 2, 2018
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JARED R. ROWE
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/s/ Wesley Ozima
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Interim Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President (Principal
Financial and Accounting Officer)
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August 2, 2018
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WESLEY OZIMA
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/s/ Michael A. Carpenter
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Director
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August 2, 2018
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MICHAEL A. CARPENTER
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/s/ Matias de Tezanos
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Director
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August 2, 2018
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MATIAS DE TEZANOS
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/s/ Mark N. Kaplan
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Director
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August 2, 2018
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MARK N. KAPLAN
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/s/ Jeffrey M. Stibel
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Director
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August 2, 2018
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JEFFREY M. STIBEL
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/s/ Janet M. Thompson
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Director
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August 2, 2018
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JANET M. THOMPSON
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/s/ Jose Vargas
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Director
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August 2, 2018
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JOSE VARGAS
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