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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. |
(d) On February 1, 2022, Clarus Corporation (the “Company”) appointed Mr. James E. Walker III to serve on the Company’s Board of Directors until the Company’s next Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until his successor is duly elected and qualified.
Mr. Walker, 59 years old, has more than 30 years of banking and investment management experience in multiple leadership roles for a number of investment and asset management firms. Since 2021, Mr. Walker has been the Managing Partner and Founder of Vinson Ventures, LLC, a boutique investment firm focused on building and growing early-stage companies by actively working with founders and management. Since November 2017, Mr. Walker has served as a member and lead independent director of the board of directors of Starwood Real Estate Income Trust, Inc., a publicly registered REIT where he also serves on its audit committee. From June 2020 to August 2021, he was the chief executive officer and a partner at Palm Ventures, LLC, a private investment firm in Greenwich, CT, where Mr. Walker managed and oversaw investments in the health and wellness as well as education industries. From April 2008 until December 2016, Mr. Walker served as a managing partner of Fir Tree Partners (“Fir Tree”), a global alternative investment firm with over $10 billion of assets. At Fir Tree, Mr. Walker was jointly responsible for overall firm management, identified new areas of investment opportunity, co-founded Fir Tree’s real estate opportunity funds, co-led the development of Fir Tree’s real estate effort and was also a member of Fir Tree’s real estate investment committee as well as the chairman of its risk committee. Previously, Mr. Walker was a senior member of Kidder, Peabody & Co.’s structured finance group managing proprietary investment vehicle and he began his career in structured finance at Bear Stearns & Co. in its asset-backed securities group. Mr. Walker received a B.S. in Economics from Boston College’s School of Management in 1984 and is a member of the Board of Regents of Boston College. Mr. Walker is also a board member of Team USA, the foundation for the US Olympic Committee.
Mr. Walker will receive compensation as a non-employee director in accordance with Company’s director compensation program described in the Company’s proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 26, 2021.
| Item 9.01. | Financial Statements and Exhibits |
(d) Exhibits.
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| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document). |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
Dated: February 1, 2022
| CLARUS CORPORATION | ||
| By: | /s/ Michael J. Yates | |
| Name: | Michael J. Yates | |
| Title: | Chief Financial Officer | |