Clear Secure, Inc 8-K, filed Sep 13, 2021
Clear Secure, Inc. (YOU)
About this 8-K
Clear Secure, Inc filed this 8-K on September 13, 2021.
Items reported
- Item 5.02: Director or officer change, or executive pay
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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
Effective September 13, 2021, Mr. Dennis Liu has been appointed Chief Accounting Officer of Clear Secure, Inc. (the “Company”) and will assume the role of principal accounting officer.
Prior to joining CLEAR, Mr. Liu was an international controller at Ubiquiti Inc. (from 2016 to 2017) and a corporate controller at Ubiquiti Inc. (from 2017 to 2021). Mr. Liu holds a Masters in Accounting from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Mr. Liu, 38, will receive a base salary and an annual cash bonus opportunity equal to a percentage of base salary. He will be eligible to receive restricted stock units of the Company as approved by the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company under the terms of the Company’s 2021 Omnibus Incentive Plan and which shall vest and be governed by the relevant award agreements. Mr. Liu will also be eligible for participation in the Company’s 401(k) plan and benefits programs. Mr. Liu has also executed an agreement subjecting him to a confidentiality provision and one-year post-termination non-competition and non-solicitation covenants, and making him eligible for severance of up to six months of salary in the event of certain terminations of employment.
The Company and Mr. Liu will also enter into the Company’s standard form of indemnification agreement (the “Indemnification Agreement”), providing for the Company to indemnify Mr. Liu as an officer of the Company to the fullest extent as permitted by law, subject to certain exclusions as specified in the Indemnification Agreement. A copy of the Company’s form of Indemnification Agreement is attached as Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-256851), which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 7, 2021 and was declared effective on June 29, 2021, and is incorporated by reference herein.
The selection of Mr. Liu to serve as Chief Accounting Officer was not pursuant to any arrangement or understanding between Mr. Liu and any other person. There are no family relationships between Mr. Liu and any director or executive officer of the Company, and there are no transactions between Mr. Liu and the Company that would be required to be reported under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.
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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.
| CLEAR SECURE, INC. | ||||||
| Date: | September 13, 2021 | By: | /s/ Matthew Levine | |||
| Name: | Matthew Levine | |||||
| Title: | General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer | |||||