Company: VUZI
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-036288
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Company: Vuzix Corp
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form: PRE 14A
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 his service on other corporate boards, he accumulated extensive experience in financial, securities, and business matters, 
 including significant leadership roles in addressing accounting and auditing matters related to public companies, which make Mr. Kay          
 a financial expert and qualifies him to serve on our Board of Directors.                                                                      |
| Timothy Harned, age 59, is an investment banking, corporate development,                                                                      
 and financial advisory veteran with more than 30 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, and related activities.    
 Mr. Harned has been a director of the Company since June 2017. Mr. Harned is also a technology specialist with more                           
 than 20 years of experience in various technology fields, including communications, mobility, and software, and another ten years             
 working with consumer and industrial companies. He holds an MBA from The Kenan-Flagler Business School at The University of North             
 Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Bachelor’s Degree in English from Kenyon College. He began his career at Lehman Brothers (1987                  
 to 1992) within the mergers and acquisitions group. Upon receiving his Masters in Business Administration in 1994, Mr. Harned                 
 went on to serve as a corporate development executive (1994 to 1996) and later joined Banc of America Securities (1996 to 2000) where         
 he became a Managing Director. Mr. Harned subsequently joined Morgan Stanley & Co. (2000 to 2002) where he served as                          
 Executive Director focused on mergers and acquisitions and capital markets advisory for technology companies. From 2003 to 2016,              
 Mr. Harned served in leadership positions at several technology-focused financial and strategic advisory boutiques. In 2016,                  
 Mr. Harned founded 8Nineteen Advisory, LLC where he served as Managing Partner and CEO while functioning as a strategic C-suite               
 consultant regarding growth matters and providing financial advisory services, with a specialty in mergers and acquisitions and corporate     
 and business development. He led 8Nineteen Advisory from December 2016 until it was acquired by Progress Partners, Inc.                       
 in May 2021. Since that time, he has served as Managing Director at Progress Partners in their Boston headquarters. Over his                  
 career, Mr. Harned has led strategic transactions for both Fortune 500 companies as well as earlier stage high growth enterprises.            
 In addition, he has successfully completed multiple cross-border transactions for U.S. ac