MoSys, Inc. (NASDAQ:MOSY) 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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MoSys, Inc. (NASDAQ:MOSY) Files An 8-K Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain OfficersItem 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

(d) Effective September26, 2017, the board of directors (the “Board”) of MoSys, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Daniel Lewis and Daniel O’Neil to the Board to fill two vacancies.Messrs.Lewis and O’Neil will serve on the Board’s audit committee (the “Audit Committee”), with Mr.O’Neil serving as the chair of the Audit Committee and as an additional financial expert on the committee. Mr.Lewis will serve on the Board’s compensation committee (the “Compensation Committee”).

Mr.Lewis has served as the managing member and an owner of GMS Manufacturing Solution LLC, which provides engineering services to manufacturing companies, since 2013. From 2001 to 2013, he served as chief executive officer of View Box Group, LLC, which provides management consulting services to small businesses.Prior to 2001, Mr.Lewis previously served as vice president of worldwide sales at both Xicor, Inc. and Integrated Device Technology, Inc. Mr.Lewis has also held various sales and technical positions with Accelerant Networks, Inc. Intel Corporation, Zilog, Inc. and Digital Equipment Corporation. Mr.Lewis holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Mr.O’Neil has served as a partner at Acme Strategy, LLC, a provider of strategic consulting and advisory services, which he founded, since 2010. From 2008 to 2010, he served as an investment banker at Signal Hill Capital Group LLC.Prior to 2008, Mr.O’Neil held business development and investment banking positions at Energy Services Group, Deutsche Bank AG and BT Alex. Brown. Mr.O’Neil holds an AB from Harvard College and an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

On September26, 2017, the Board also approved the Company’s standard independent director compensation program. to this program, outside directors will be paid the following annual retainers:

·	$30,000 for service as a Board member;

·	$3,000 for service as chair of the Audit Committee; and

·	$1,500 for service as chair of the Compensation Committee.

Since the beginning of the Company’s last fiscal year through the present, there have been no transactions with the Company, and there are currently no proposed transactions with the Company, in which the amount involved exceeds $120,000, and in which either of Messrs. Lewis or O’Neil had or will have a direct or indirect material interest within the meaning of Item404(a) of RegulationS‑K.No arrangement or understanding exists between either Mr.Lewis or Mr.O’Neil and any other person to which either was selected as a director of the Company. In addition, Messrs.Lewis and O’Neil and the Company will enter into the Company’s standard form of indemnification agreement for directors.

As a result of these new director appointments, the Company believes the composition of its Board now meets the requirements of The NASDAQ Stock Market (“Nasdaq”) Listing Rule5605 and will so notify Nasdaq in response to the deficiency notices received from the Listing Qualifications Department of Nasdaq previously disclosed by the Company.

(e) On September26, 2017, the Compensation Committee approved compensation adjustments for certain executive officers. The Committee increased the annual base salary of James Sullivan from $235,000 to $247,000 effective July1, 2017, and awarded Mr.Sullivan: a bonus award of $25,000 to be paid in October 2017 and a retention bonus award equal to 5% of his base salary, which will be paid in two equal installments in October 2017 and February 2018, subject to his continued employment with the Company.In addition, the Committee awarded Mr.Sullivan restricted stock units representing the right to receive 35,000shares of common stock, which will vest in three equal installments on each of January31, 2018, July31, 2018 and January31, 2019.

The Compensation Committee granted John Monson an incentive award with a target amount equal to $60,000 to be paid if he achieves specified sales objectives in 2017.The Compensation Committee also awarded Mr.Monson a retention bonus equal to 5% of his base salary. The retention bonus award will be paid in equal installments in October 2017 and February 2018, subject to his continued employment with the Company. In addition, the Committee awarded Mr.Monson restricted stock units representing the right to receive 35,000shares of common stock, which will vest in three equal installments on each of January31, 2018, July31, 2018 and January31, 2019.

About MoSys, Inc. (NASDAQ:MOSY)
MoSys, Inc. (MoSys), together with its subsidiaries, is a fabless semiconductor company focused on the development and sale of integrated circuits (ICs) for the high-speed networking, communications, storage and computing markets. The Company has developed approximately two IC product lines under the Bandwidth Engine and LineSpeed product names. Bandwidth Engine ICs integrate its 1T-SRAM high-density embedded memory with its integrated macro function technology and a serial interface protocol resulting in a monolithic memory IC solution optimized for transaction performance. The LineSpeed IC product line consists of non-memory, high-speed serialization-deserialization (SerDes), input/output (I/O) physical layer (PHY) devices with clock data recovery, gearbox and retimer functionality, which convert lanes of data received on line cards or by optical modules into various configurations and/or ensure signal integrity.