Company: AAOI
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-040212
Chunk: 43

Company: APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 43
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Joshua) Yeh       | ​ | ​ | ​ | ​                     | ​ |  40,455 | ​ | ​ | ​ | ​ | ​                     | ​ | 200% | ​ | ​ | ​ | ​ | ​                 | ​ |  80,910 | ​ | ​ | ​ |
| ​ | ​ | David C. Kuo               | ​ | ​ | ​ | ​                     | ​ |  25,284 | ​ | ​ | ​ | ​ | ​                     | ​ | 200% | ​ | ​ | ​ | ​ | ​                 | ​ |  50,568 | ​ | ​ | ​ |

Welfare and Health Benefits Our NEOs are eligible to participate in our broad-based health and welfare programs on the same terms as our non-executive employees. These benefits include medical, vision and dental benefits, life insurance benefits, and short-term and long-term disability insurance. Our executive officers are eligible to participate in the same life insurance program as is offered to our employees at or above the level of deputy director. In addition, we maintain a Section 401(k) savings plan that provides our employees, including our executive officers, with the opportunity to save for retirement on a tax-advantaged basis. All participant contributions are fully vested when contributed, and our NEOs are eligible to receive, on the same basis as other employees, employer matching contributions under the plan. In structuring these benefit programs, we seek to provide an aggregate level of benefits that are comparable to those provided by similar companies. Perquisites and Other Personal Benefits We generally do not provide perquisites to our executive officers, except where we believe it is appropriate to assist an individual in the performance of his or her duties, to make our executive officers more efficient and effective and for recruitment and retention purposes.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Employment Agreements & Post-Employment Compensation We have entered into written employment agreements providing for at will employment with our CEO and each of our other NEOs. These employment agreements provided for their initial base salary and target bonus opportunity, as well as severance eligibility in the event of qualifying terminations of employment, including a termination of employment following a change of control of the Company (a so-called “double-trigger” arrangement). In the case of the acceleration of vesting of outstanding equity awards, we use this double-trigger arrangement to protect against the loss of retention value following a change of control of the Company and to avoid windfalls, both of which could occur if vesting of