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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. |
On March 31, 2022, the Board of Directors of MicroVision, Inc. elected Jeffrey Herbst to serve as a member of the Board effective April 1, 2022.
Mr. Herbst, age 57, is Co-Founding Managing Partner of GFT Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on investing in early-stage technology companies primarily located in the U.S. and Israel. Prior to launching GFT Ventures, Mr. Herbst served in various roles at NVIDIA Corporation from December 2001 to July 2021, most recently serving as Vice President of Business Development where he built an ecosystem of accelerated computing applications spanning the domains of AI, data science, autonomous machines, and graphics and visualization. Prior to that, he was a partner with the Wilson Sonsini law firm in Palo Alto, California. Mr. Herbst holds a J.D. degree from Stanford University and a B.S. degree with honors in computer science from Brown University.
A description of the compensation payable to Mr. Herbst for his services as a director is set forth under the caption “Director Compensation for 2020” in the MicroVision definitive proxy statement dated April 7, 2021.
With Mr. Herbst’s appointment, the number of directors on MicroVision’s Board will increase to eight.
| Item 9.01. | Financial Statements and Exhibits. |
(c) Exhibits.
Pursuant to the rules and regulations of the SEC, the attached exhibit is deemed to have been furnished to, but not filed with, the SEC.
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| 99.1 | Press Release of MicroVision, Inc. dated April 4, 2022 | |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document) | |
SIGNATURE
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.
| MICROVISION, INC. | ||
| By: | /s/ Drew G. Markham | |
| Drew G. Markham | ||
| Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary | ||
Dated: April 4, 2022