Company: QLYS
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-013472
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Company: QUALYS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: PRE 14A
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 applicable exercise price for an equity award or (ii) satisfy withholding tax obligations arising in connection with the exercise, vesting or payment of an equity award. As of December 31, 2024, all of our non-employee directors were in compliance with our stock ownership guidelines or within the grace period for compliance. Mr. Berquist, who joined board in August of 2023, has until August of 2028 to be in compliance with our stock ownership guidelines.

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PROPOSAL NO. 1 ELECTION OF DIRECTORS Number of Directors; Board Structure Our board of directors is currently composed of six members. Our board of directors is divided into three staggered classes of directors. At each annual meeting of stockholders, a class of directors will be elected for a three-year term to succeed the same class whose term is then expiring. The term of the Class I directors expires at the Annual Meeting, the term of the Class II directors expires at the 2026 annual meeting, and the term of the Class III directors expires at the 2027 annual meeting. Nominees Our Nominating and Governance Committee has recommended, and our board of directors has approved Thomas P. Berquist and Kristi M. Rogers as nominees for election as Class I directors at the Annual Meeting. If elected, Mr. Berquist and Ms. Rogers will serve as Class I directors until the 2028 annual meeting of stockholders and until their successors are duly elected and qualified, subject to their earlier death, resignation, or removal. Each of the nominees currently serves on our board of directors as a Class I director. For information concerning the nominees, please see “ Board of Directors and Corporate Governance” above. If you are a stockholder of record and you sign your proxy card or vote by telephone or over the Internet but do not give instructions with respect to the voting of directors, your shares will be voted “FOR” the election of Mr. Berquist and Ms. Rogers, each of whom has consented to being named as a nominee in this proxy statement and to serve as a director, if elected. If, at the time of the Annual Meeting, any nominee is unable or declines to serve as a director, the discretionary authority provided in the enclosed proxy will be exercised to vote for a substitute candidate designated by our board of directors, unless the board chooses to reduce its own size. Our board of directors has no reason to believe that any of the nominees will be unable or will decline to serve if elected. If you