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| Item 5.02 | Departure of Directors or Principal Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Principal Officers. |
On March 2, 2022, Tony J. Hunt was appointed to the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of 908 Devices Inc. (the “Company”) expanding the Board from eight to nine directors. Mr. Hunt will serve as a Class II director, with a term expiring at the Company’s annual meeting of stockholders to be held in June 2022.
In accordance with the Company’s Non-Employee Director Compensation Policy (the “Policy”), Mr. Hunt will receive annual cash compensation of $40,000 for general availability and participation in meetings and conference calls of the Board, to be paid quarterly in arrears, pro-rated based on the number of actual days served by the director during such calendar quarter. No additional compensation will be paid for attending individual meetings of the Board. In addition, Mr. Hunt shall be granted an initial, one-time equity award (the “Initial Award”), representing $200,000 of value on the grant date, with 50% of the value allocated to Restricted Stock Unit awards (“RSUs”), and 50% of the value allocated to Non-Qualified Stock Option awards (“NQSOs”). The RSUs shall vest annually over three (3) years from the director commencement date, with pro rata vesting upon termination of service for any reason, and the NQSOs shall vest monthly over three (3) years from the director commencement date, provided that such director remains a service provider through the applicable vesting dates. The Initial Awards shall be granted under and subject to terms of the Company’s 2020 Stock Option and Incentive Plan.
Mr. Hunt will also be eligible for equity awards on the same terms as other continuing non-employee members of the Board. Currently, the Policy provides that, on or about the date of each annual meeting of stockholders of the Company (the “Annual Meeting”), each continuing non-employee director, other than a director who joined the Board and received an Initial Award within 90 days of such Annual Meeting, will receive an annual equity award (the “Annual Award”), representing $135,000 of value on the grant date, with 50% of the value allocated to RSUs, and 50% of the value allocated to NQSOs. The RSUs shall vest in full at the one year anniversary of the Annual Meeting, or the day prior to the next Annual Meeting, whichever is first to occur, with pro rata vesting upon termination of service for any reason, and the NQSOs shall vest monthly over one (1) year from the date of the Annual Meeting, provided that such director remains a service provider through the applicable vesting dates. The Annual Awards shall be granted under and subject to terms of the Company’s 2020 Stock Option and Incentive Plan.
All outstanding Initial Awards and Annual Awards held by a non-employee director shall become fully vested and exercisable upon a Sale Event (as defined in the Company’s 2020 Stock Option and Incentive Plan).
Mr. Hunt also executed the Company’s standard form of indemnification agreement, a copy of which has been filed as Exhibit 10.3 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-250954) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 25, 2020.
There are no arrangements or understandings between Mr. Hunt and any other persons pursuant to which Mr. Hunt was elected as a director. In addition, Mr. Hunt is not a party to any transaction, or series of transactions, required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.
On March 2, 2022, the Company issued a press release announcing the appointment of Mr. Hunt as a director. The press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.
| Item 9.01. | Financial Statements and Exhibits. |
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| 99.1 | Press Release dated March 2, 2022 | |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document) |
SIGNATURE
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.
| 908 DEVICES INC. | ||
| March 2, 2022 | By: | /s/ Kevin J. Knopp |
| Kevin J. Knopp | ||
| Chief Executive Officer | ||
Exhibit 99.1
908 Devices Appoints Tony J. Hunt, President and CEO, Repligen, to its Board of Directors
BOSTON, March 2, 2022 – 908 Devices (Nasdaq: MASS), a pioneer of purpose-built handheld and desktop mass spectrometry devices for chemical and biomolecular analysis, has appointed Tony J. Hunt, President and CEO, Repligen Corporation (Nasdaq: RGEN), to serve on its Board of Directors effective immediately.
Mr. Hunt brings a deep understanding of the bioprocessing market, with more than 20 years of life sciences management experience. He joined Repligen in 2014 as Chief Operating Officer and was promoted to his current role a year later. Mr. Hunt previously was President of Bioproduction at Life Technologies, which was acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific in 2014. From 2000 to 2008, he was with Applied Biosystems as Senior Director of Pharma Programs where he launched the pharma analytics business that in 2008 became part of the bioproduction platform at Life Technologies.
“I am delighted to welcome Tony to the 908 Devices’ Board of Directors,” said Kevin Hrusovsky, Chairman of 908 Devices. “Tony brings extensive market experience and valuable strategic insight into biopharmaceutical development and production. His significant track record of evaluating inorganic growth opportunities will also be an important addition to our Board.”
“I am honored to join the 908 Devices Board at this exciting stage of the company’s journey,” said Mr. Hunt. “The 908 Devices technology platform has tremendous potential to help researchers bring new therapeutics to market faster, and I look forward to partnering with the company’s leadership team to unlock this capability.”
“One of our key priorities is to create a comprehensive bioanalytics platform from biotherapeutic development through production,” said Kevin J. Knopp, CEO and co-founder of 908 Devices. “Tony’s wealth of knowledge and experience in downstream bioproduction workflows will be invaluable as we do so.”
For more information, visit www.908devices.com.
About 908 Devices
908 Devices Inc. (Nasdaq: MASS) is democratizing laboratory mass spectrometry with its simple handheld and desktop devices, addressing critical-to-life applications. The Company’s devices are used at the point-of-need to interrogate unknown and invisible materials and provide quick, actionable answers to directly address some of the most critical problems in life sciences research, bioprocessing, pharma / biopharma, forensics and adjacent markets. The Company is headquartered in the heart of Boston, where it designs and manufactures innovative products that bring together the power of mass spectrometry, microfluidic separations, software automation and machine learning.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release includes “forward looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements other than statements of historical facts are forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, statements regarding plans to develop a comprehensive bioanalytics platform and other strategic objectives. Words such as “may,” “will,” “expect,” “plan,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “intend” and similar expressions (as well as other words or expressions referencing future events, conditions or circumstances) are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and assumptions which may cause actual results to differ materially from any results expressed or implied by any forward-looking statement, including the risks outlined under “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission which are available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Additional information will be made available in the Company’s annual and quarterly reports and other filings that it makes from time to time with the SEC. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in its forward-looking statements are reasonable, it cannot guarantee future results. The Company has no obligation, and does not undertake any obligation, to update or revise any forward-looking statement made in this press release to reflect changes since the date of this press release, except as may be required by law.
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