Green Dot Corporation (NYSE:GDOT) Files An 8-K Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

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Green Dot Corporation (NYSE:GDOT) Files An 8-K Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

On March 2, 2017, Green Dot Corporation (the “Company”) agreed with Konstantinos Sgoutas on the terms of his transition from an employee of the Company to a transitional advisory position. As discussed in the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 7, 2016, Mr. Sgoutas ceased serving as Chief Revenue Officer of the Company, effective as of November 28, 2016.
The agreement with Mr. Sgoutas (the “Transitional Advisory Agreement”) provides that Mr. Sgoutas’s employment with the Company terminated on March 1, 2017, and engages Mr. Sgoutas as an independent contractor by the Company for the next ten months, or such shorter period than ten months should Mr. Sgoutas decide to terminate the Transitional Advisory Agreement. Mr. Sgoutas will receive monthly consulting fees equal to the quotient of (i) $733,333.00 divided by (ii) ten during the period of his consultancy. He is also entitled to a lump sum payment equal to $73,333.00 payable within 14 days of the effective date of the general release described below. In addition, stock options granted to Mr. Sgoutas shall continue to vest in accordance with their applicable vesting schedule, provided that the vesting of his stock options shall cease on the earlier of (a) April 15, 2017, (b) termination by Mr. Sgoutas of his consulting and advisory services or (c) termination of his services by the Company for Cause (as defined in the Transitional Advisory Agreement). The agreement also provides that the vesting or settlement of restricted stock units held by Mr. Sgoutas will be accelerated as to 11,420 shares and the remaining unvested awards will be forfeited, except Mr. Sgoutas will be eligible to receive any shares that vest in 2017 under the performance-based restricted stock units granted to him in 2016 in accordance with their terms. to the Transitional Advisory Agreement, the Company has agreed to reimburse the cost of COBRA premiums for up to ten months after March 1, 2017. In addition, the Company also agreed to pay to Mr. Sgoutas the bonus to which he would have been entitled under the Company’s 2016 Executive Officer Incentive Bonus Plan had he served as an employee through the date that bonuses are paid to all other participants thereunder, with the payment of such bonus to be made at the same time other participants receive payment. to the Transitional Advisory Agreement, Mr. Sgoutas has agreed to a general release and waiver of claims against the Company.

About Green Dot Corporation (NYSE:GDOT)

Green Dot Corporation, along with its subsidiaries, is a pro-consumer financial technology innovator. The Company is a provider of reloadable prepaid debit cards and cash reload processing services in the United States. The Company operates through two segments: Account Services, and Processing and Settlement Services. Its account services segment includes branded deposit account programs, including Green Dot-branded and affinity-branded general purpose reloadable (GPR) card accounts; checking accounts, and open-loop gift cards. Its processing and settlement services include reload services and tax refund processing services. It also has operations in the mobile technology and mobile banking with GoBank mobile checking account. Through its subsidiary, SBBT Holdings, LLC (TPG), it also operates as a processor of tax refund disbursements in the United States. It offers checking account products, such as GoBank, that allow customers to acquire and manage checking accounts.

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Green Dot Corporation (NYSE:GDOT) closed its last trading session up +0.23 at 30.00 with 301,872 shares trading hands.