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Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Agreements of Certain Officers
On April 25, 2022, Stuart Stoller indicated his intention to resign as Chief Financial Officer of Ipsidy Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) in connection with his planned retirement. The resignation and retirement have a planned effective date of June 17, 2022 at which time Annie Pham will be appointed Chief Financial Officer in his place.
From July 2017 through April 2022, Ms. Pham served as Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer of SonicWall, Inc., a company engaged in computer and network security. Ms. Pham served as the Vice President of Finance and Corporate Controller for Applied Micro Circuits Corporation from September 2014 through June 2017. Prior to 2014, Ms. Pham held several roles with Broadcom, Hewlett Packard, Deloitte & Touche, KPMG, Grant Thornton and Ernst & Young. Ms. Pham received her MBA with a major in Corporate Finance from University of Sydney and her BA in Economics and Accounting from the National Economics University. Ms. Pham is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in the State of California.
On April 25, 2022, Ms. Pham and the Company entered an Offer Letter pursuant to which Ms. Pham agreed to serve as Chief Financial Officer with a planned employment date commencing June 20, 2022 or such other date as may be agreed. Ms. Pham will receive an annual salary of $275,000. The Company agreed to provide a bonus of 40% of the base salary (pro rated for 2022) based on achievement of performance milestones, calculated and payable in accordance with the corporate milestones approved by the Board for the year 2022. For subsequent fiscal years the bonus shall be subject to performance targets to be mutually agreed with the Compensation Committee of the Board. In addition, Ms. Pham will receive a signing bonus in the amount of $25,000, which is fully refundable to the Company if Ms. Pham leaves her employment voluntarily or is terminated for cause prior to the first anniversary of the commencement of employment. The employment of Ms. Pham will be at will and may be terminated at any time, with or without formal cause. The Company also entered an Executive Retention Agreement with Ms. Pham, pursuant to which the Company agreed to provide specified severance and bonus amounts and to accelerate the vesting on her equity awards upon termination upon a change of control or an involuntary termination, as each term is defined in the agreements. In the event of a termination upon a change of control or an involuntary termination, Ms. Pham is entitled to receive an amount equal to 100% of her base salary and the target bonus then in effect for the executive officer for the year in which such termination occurs. At the election of the executive officer, the Company will also continue to provide health related employee insurance coverage for up to twelve months, at the Company’s expense. Upon commencing employment, Ms. Pham will be granted an option to acquire 350,000 shares of common stock with an exercise price equal to the closing price of the Company’s common stock on the date of grant and an exercise period of ten years subject to certain performance vesting requirements.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits
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| 10.1 | Letter Agreement between Annie Pham and Ipsidy Inc. dated April 25, 2022 | |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document) |
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SIGNATURES
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.
| Ipsidy Inc. | ||
| Date: April 26, 2022 | By: | /s/ Stuart P. Stoller |
| Name: | Stuart P. Stoller | |
| Title: | Chief Financial Officer | |
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