AWARE, INC. (NASDAQ:AWRE) Files An 8-K Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
Item 5.07.
Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders. |
On May 24, 2017, we held an annual meeting of stockholders. A
total of 21,837,605 shares of our common stock were outstanding
as of April 4, 2017, the record date for the annual meeting. The
first matter acted upon at the annual meeting was the election of
two Class III directors of our board of directors. Our
stockholders elected Adrian F. Kruse and John S. Stafford, Jr. as
members of our board of directors as Class III directors for a
three-year term. The final results of the vote, as reported by
our inspector of elections, were as follows:
Nominee | For | Withheld | |
Adrian F. Kruse | 15,762,589 | 559,419 | |
John S. Stafford, Jr. | 15,826,808 | 495,200 |
The second matter acted upon at the annual meeting was an
advisory vote on the approval of named executive officer
compensation. Our stockholders approved, on an advisory basis,
the compensation of individuals identified in the Summary
Compensation Table, as disclosed in the Aware, Inc. 2016 proxy
statement to the compensation disclosure rules of the SEC. The
final results of the vote, as reported by our inspector of
elections, were as follows:
For | Against | Abstain | |
15,742,197 | 563,723 | 16,088 |
The third matter acted upon at the annual meeting was an advisory
vote on the approval of the frequency of holding stockholder
votes on the approval of executive compensation. Our stockholders
selected, on an advisory basis, Two Years on the frequency of
advisory votes on executive compensation. The final results of
the vote, as reported by our inspector of elections, were as
follows:
Three Years | Two Years | One Year | Abstain |
2,140,932 | 7,886,316 | 6,279,106 | 15,654 |
Our board of directors has decided to hold advisory stockholder
votes to approve the compensation paid to our named executive
officers as disclosed to Item 402 of Regulation S-K every two (2)
years until the next required vote on the frequency of such
advisory votes.
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About AWARE, INC. (NASDAQ:AWRE)
Aware, Inc. is a provider of software and services to the biometrics industry. The Company’s software products are used in government and commercial biometrics systems to identify or authenticate people. The Company’s products provide biometric functionality and are used to capture, verify, format, compress and decompress biometric images, as well as aggregate, analyze, process, match and transport those images within biometric systems. The Company classifies its biometrics software products into five product groups, including Software Development Kits (SKDs), Enrollment Controls and Applets, Applications, Middleware/Workflow Server and Cluster Computing Platform. The Company sells a range of software products for fingerprint, facial and iris modalities. It offers various software engineering services, including project planning and management; system design; software design, development, customization, configuration and testing, and software integration and installation. AWARE, INC. (NASDAQ:AWRE) Recent Trading Information
AWARE, INC. (NASDAQ:AWRE) closed its last trading session up +0.15 at 4.80 with 99,154 shares trading hands.