Item 5.02Item 5.02 - Departure/Election of Directors
Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
Appointment of Chief Financial Officer
Effective January 6, 2025 (the “Appointment
Date”), Everspin Technologies, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed William Cooper to serve as the Company’s Chief
Financial Officer (“CFO”). Mr. Cooper, age 59, is a certified public accountant and joins the Company from Advanced Micro
Devices, Inc. (“AMD”) where he held various executive finance positions from March 2017 to December 2024. Most
recently, from January 2024 to December 2024, Mr. Cooper served as Director of Financial Planning and Analysis leading
the annual and quarterly planning and budgeting process globally for AMD as well as supporting external reporting and reporting to the
board of directors. From March 2017 to January 2024, Mr. Cooper’s previous AMD roles included Director of Finance,
with global responsibility for inventory reporting and Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance, and finance support for supply chain, global operations,
and inventory management. Mr. Cooper was also global lead for integration of Xilinx, Inc.’s manufacturing costs and inventory
after its acquisition by AMD. From January 2015 to June 2016, Mr. Cooper served as Chief Financial Officer for the Data
Division of Volex plc, a maker of data cables used in Networking and Data Centers, as well as in high end medical equipment such as MRI
machines. From December 2004 to January 2015, Mr. Cooper held various executive and managerial finance positions with AMD
including leading Financial Planning and Analysis, Operations Finance directly supporting the spin-off of AMD’s manufacturing facilities
to Global Foundries, Controller of the Europe, Middle East and Africa regions for Sales finance based in Milan, Italy, and Mobile
Client division Chief Financial Officer. Prior to AMD, Mr. Cooper spent a decade working in various finance management positions
in the medical device industry as well as over five years in the public accounting sector with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Mr. Cooper
earned his Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Accounting at the University of Texas at Austin.
The Company and Mr. Cooper executed an offer
letter (the “Employment Agreement”), dated November 12, 2024, which includes the following terms: (i) an annual
base salary of $300,000 (the “Base Salary”), (ii) an annual target bonus equal to 75% of the Base Salary, (iii) subject
to his continued service of a one-year period, a sign-on bonus of $45,000, and (iv) subject to approval by the Company’s Board
of Directors, an equity award to be granted under the Company’s Amended and Restated 2016 Equity Incentive Plan for 100,000 restricted
stock units (“RSUs”) pursuant to the Company’s standard form RSU agreement. The equity award will vest at the rate of
25% per year on the anniversary date of the grant, subject to his continued service. He will also be eligible for other benefits as described
in the Employment Agreement.
In addition, Mr. Cooper will be a participant
in the Company’s Executive Change in Control Plan, as may be amended from time to time (the “CIC Plan”), pursuant to
which, in the event of termination of his employment with the Company or any acquirer or successor without Cause (as defined in the CIC
Plan), or his voluntary termination of his employment for Good Reason (as defined in the CIC Plan), in each case, during the period commencing
three months prior to a Change in Control (as defined in the CIC Plan) and ending 12 months following a Change in Control, then, subject
to his execution and non-revocation of a general release of claims in favor of the Company within 45 days following the date of such termination,
the Company will be obligated to provide the following payments and benefits to Mr. Cooper:
a cash payment equal to 12 months of his then-current base salary;
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a payment of his target incentive bonus payout in the amounts equal to 100% of his incentive bonus target;
12 months of COBRA benefits continuation; and
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acceleration of the vesting of the shares subject to any Equity Awards (as defined in the CIC Plan) held
by him on the date of termination such that the then unvested Equity Awards shall vest and become exercisable as to the number of shares
subject to such Equity Award that would have vested if he had completed an additional 12 months of employment following the termination
date.
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A copy of the Employment Agreement is attached
hereto as Exhibit 10.1 and the description of the material terms of the Employment Agreement is qualified in its entirety by reference
to such exhibit.
There are no arrangements or understandings between
Mr. Cooper and any other person pursuant to which Mr. Cooper was appointed as CFO and there are no family relationships between
Mr. Cooper and any director or other executive officer of the Company, and he has no direct or indirect material interest in any
transaction required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.
On January 8, 2025, the Company issued a press release announcing
the above, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.
Interim Chief Financial Officer
On January 6, 2025, and in connection with
Mr. Cooper’s appointment, the Company and Matthew Tenorio mutually agreed that he will cease service as the Company’s
Interim Chief Financial Officer, principal financial officer and principal accounting officer, effective as of the Appointment Date, and
that he will transition to serve, for an interim period, as the Company’s Vice President, Finance.