0000899243-17-011980.txt : 20170505 0000899243-17-011980.hdr.sgml : 20170505 20170505161603 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000899243-17-011980 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 3 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20170427 FILED AS OF DATE: 20170505 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20170505 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Hostess Brands, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001644406 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: BAKERY PRODUCTS [2050] IRS NUMBER: 000000000 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1 EAST ARMOUR BOULEVARD CITY: KANSAS CITY STATE: MO ZIP: 64111 BUSINESS PHONE: 816-701-4600 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1 EAST ARMOUR BOULEVARD CITY: KANSAS CITY STATE: MO ZIP: 64111 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: Gores Holdings, Inc. DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20150608 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Riley Darryl Patrick CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001705604 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 3 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-37540 FILM NUMBER: 17818562 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1 EAST ARMOUR BOULEVARD CITY: KANSAS CITY STATE: MO ZIP: 64111 3 1 doc3.xml FORM 3 SUBMISSION X0206 3 2017-04-27 0 0001644406 Hostess Brands, Inc. TWNK 0001705604 Riley Darryl Patrick RILEY DARRYL PATRICK 1 EAST ARMOUR BOULEVARD KANSAS CITY MO 64111 0 1 0 0 See remarks Restricted Stock Units 27000 D Stock Options 15.78 2027-03-22 Class A Common Stock 26248 D Consists of a grant of restricted stock units. Each restricted stock unit represents the right to receive a share of Class A Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share ("Class A Common Stock") of Hostess Brands, Inc. (the "Company"), upon vesting. Such restricted stock units shall vest in equal or nearly equal installments on each of November 4, 2017, November 4, 2018 and November 4, 2019 (a "Vesting Date"), assuming continued employment through the applicable Vesting Date. Consists of a grant of options to purchase shares of Class A Common Stock. Such options are subject to vesting in equal or nearly equal installments on November 4 of each of 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 (an "Option Vesting Date"), assuming continued employment through the applicable Option Vesting Date. Senior Vice President, Quality/Food Safety and R&D Exhibit 24.1 Power of Attorney Darryl P. Riley, /s/ Darryl P. Riley 2017-05-05 EX-24.1 2 attachment1.htm EX-24.1 DOCUMENT

                               POWER OF ATTORNEY

        KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned Darryl P. Riley, hereby
constitutes and appoints each of Jolyn Sebree and Thomas Peterson and each of
them acting individually, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact to:

        1.      execute for and on behalf of the undersigned Forms 3, 4 and 5
relating to the Class A Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of Hostess
Brands, Inc. (the "Company") in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act") and the rules thereunder;

        2.      do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the
undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete the execution of any
such Form 3, 4 or 5 and the timely filing of such form with the United States
Securities and Exchange Commission and any other authority, including NASDAQ;
and

        3.      take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with
the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit
to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being
understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the
undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall
contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in his or
her discretion.

        The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power
and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever
requisite, necessary and proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights
and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as such
attorney-in-fact might or could do if personally present, with full power of
substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming that such
attorney-in-fact, or his or her substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or
cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers
herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing
attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the
undersigned, are not assuming any of the undersigned's responsibilities to
comply with Section 16 of the Exchange Act.

        This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the
undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the
undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company,
unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the
foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned caused this Power of Attorney to be
executed as of this 5th day of May, 2017.



                                        /s/ Darryl P. Riley
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                                        Darryl P. Riley