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Section 5 - Corporate Governance and Management
Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
Effective September 15, 2021, Shanti Gupta has been appointed Chief Accounting Officer of AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (“AST SpaceMobile”) and will assume the role of principal accounting officer. Rulfo Hernandez, the prior Chief Accounting Officer, assumed the role of Chief Financial Officer – International Operations effective as of the same date.
Mr. Gupta has over 20 years of experience in finance and accounting providing assurance and advisory services to Fortune 500 and private companies in North America, Europe and Asia. Since 2014, Mr. Gupta has worked with Ernst & Young in New York where he has been a Partner and Managing Director in the Financial Accounting Advisory Services group. Previously, he has worked with Deloitte & Touche in New York and with KPMG in India. He is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in New York, and a Chartered Accountant from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He received his Bachelor of Commerce (Honors) from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University, India.
There is no arrangement or understanding between Mr. Gupta and any other person pursuant to which he was selected as an officer of the Company, and there is no family relationship between Mr. Gupta and any of the Company’s other directors or executive officers.
In connection with Mr. Gupta’s appointment as the Company’s Chief Accounting Officer, Mr. Gupta entered into an offer letter with the Company, which will be filed with the Company’s next Form 10-Q. The offer letter provides for a base salary of $250,000 and six months of severance in the event of a termination without cause as well as customary reimbursement of relocation expenses. The Company granted Mr. Gupta (i) 200,000 restricted stock units, each of which represents one share of the Company’s common stock (“RSUs”), vesting in four equal annual installments beginning on the first anniversary of his employment commencement date and (ii) 50,000 RSUs, which vest on the basis of satisfaction of certain stated performance criteria. Mr. Gupta will also enter into an Indemnification and Advancement Agreement with the Company, in the form previously filed as an exhibit to the Company’s registration statements on Form S-1.
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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.
Dated: September 17, 2021
| AST SPACEMOBILE, INC. | ||
| By: | /s/ Thomas Severson | |
| Name: | Thomas Severson | |
| Title: | Chief Financial Officer | |