0001104659-14-063000.txt : 20140826 0001104659-14-063000.hdr.sgml : 20140826 20140826081537 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001104659-14-063000 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20140822 ITEM INFORMATION: Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers FILED AS OF DATE: 20140826 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20140826 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: AXCELIS TECHNOLOGIES INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001113232 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SPECIAL INDUSTRY MACHINERY, NEC [3559] IRS NUMBER: 341818596 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-30941 FILM NUMBER: 141063712 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 108 CHERRY HILL DRIVE CITY: BEVERLY STATE: MA ZIP: 01915 BUSINESS PHONE: 978 232 4001 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 108 CHERRY HILL DRIVE CITY: BEVERLY STATE: MA ZIP: 01915 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: EATON SEMICONDUCTOR EQUIPMENT INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20000501 8-K 1 a14-19989_18k.htm 8-K

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): August 22, 2014

 

Axcelis Technologies, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware

 

000-30941

 

34-1818596

(State or other jurisdiction

 

(Commission

 

(IRS Employer

of incorporation)

 

File Number)

 

Identification No.)

 

108 Cherry Hill Drive, Beverly, Massachusetts

 

01915

(Address of principal executive offices)

 

(Zip Code)

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (978) 787-4000

 

 

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

o            Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

o            Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

o            Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

o            Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 

 

 


 

Item 5.02    Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

 

(b) Directors Not Standing for Reelection.  As a result of a modification of the Governance Policies of Axcelis Technologies, Inc. (the “Company”) effective August 22, 2014, certain directors of the Company will not be nominated for re-election at the Company’s 2015 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. The Company’s Governance Policies were modified to include a policy that “no Director who has reached the age of 75 or will reach that age on or before the date of the next annual shareholders’ meeting will be nominated for election at that meeting.”  The directors affected by this policy and who will not be nominated for re-election at the Company’s 2015 Annual Meeting of Stockholders are Stephen R. Hardis, William C. Jennings and H. Brian Thompson.

 

SIGNATURE

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

Date: August 26, 2014

Axcelis Technologies, Inc.

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ LYNNETTE C. FALLON

 

 

Lynnette C. Fallon

 

 

Executive Vice President, HR/Legal

 

 

and General Counsel

 

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