Company: LASR
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001124796-25-000043
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Company: NLIGHT, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
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 officers as described in this proxy statement. This proposal gives our stockholders the opportunity to express their views on the design and effectiveness of our executive compensation program.

Advisory Non-Binding Vote on Compensation of Named Executive Officers

We believe that our compensation philosophy and program, as described below in the “Compensation Discussion and Analysis” section of this proxy statement, are effective in achieving our goals, and that the executive compensation reported in this proxy statement is appropriate, competitive, and aligned with our results. The compensation program for our named executive officers embodies a pay-for-performance philosophy. The program is designed to attract, motivate, and retain executive officers in a competitive market for executive talent, and to align the executive officers’ interests with the interests of our stockholders to create long-term value, while at the same time avoiding the encouragement of excessive risk-taking. Our executive officers can achieve higher overall compensation if and to the extent we achieve challenging financial and strategic performance goals and our stock outperforms the market.

For a more detailed discussion of our compensation philosophy, objectives, principles, and programs, we strongly encourage our stockholders to review this proxy statement, and in particular the information contained in “Executive Compensation—Compensation Discussion and Analysis” and in the compensation tables and narrative that follow it in the “Executive Compensation” section of this proxy statement.

The vote on executive compensation is not intended to address any specific element of compensation or any specific named executive officer, but rather the overall compensation of all of our named executive officers and the philosophy, policies and practices described in this proxy statement.

Because the vote on this proposal is advisory in nature, it will not affect any compensation already paid or awarded to our named executive officers and will not be binding on us, our compensation committee, or our board of directors. Although the vote is non-binding, our compensation committee and our board of directors value the opinions expressed by our stockholders in their vote and will consider the outcome of the vote in making future compensation decisions for our named executive officers. After the vote held at the Annual Meeting, our next non-binding advisory vote on the compensation of our named executive officers is scheduled to be held at our 2025 annual meeting of stockholders.

At the Annual Meeting, we are asking stockholders to vote on the following non-binding advisory resolution:

RESOLVED, that the stockholders approve the compensation of nLIGHT’s named executive officers as disclosed pursuant to the compensation disclosure rules of the SEC, in this proxy statement, including in the “Executive Compensation—Compensation Discussion and Analysis” section