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Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
On January 31, 2022, Embark Technology, Inc. (the “Company”) announced the appointment of Stephen Houghton to serve as Chief Operating Officer of the Company, effective as of January 27, 2022. Since June 2021, Mr. Houghton has served as the Company’s Chief Operations and Fleet Officer. Mr. Houghton, 42, previously served as the Head of Autonomous Vehicles (AV) Go To Market at Amazon (AWS) from November 2020 until June 2021, as Vice President of Global Markets running operations for Cruise, General Motors' Autonomous Vehicles Division from May 2016 to November 2002. Mr. Houghton also served as an active duty Officer in the United States Marine Corps. Mr. Houghton has a Master of Business Administration from Stanford Business School, a Master in Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a Bachelor of Business Administration from Southern Methodist University.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
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| Exhibit No. | Description |
| 10.1 | Employment Agreement, dated May 15, 2021, between the Company and Stephen Houghton. |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive File (the cover page tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL document) |
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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.
| EMBARK TECHNOLOGY, INC. | |||
| Date: | February 1, 2022 | By: | /s/ Siddhartha Venkatesan |
| Name: | Siddhartha Venkatesan | ||
| Title: | Chief Legal Officer | ||