Company: LASR
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001124796-25-000043
Chunk: 49

Company: NLIGHT, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 49
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 Perquisites
Our named executive officers participate in various employee benefit plans, including health, dental and vision care plans, life insurance and our 401(k) plan and stock purchase plans. These benefit plans are the same plans offered to our other employees.

Consideration of Stockholder Advisory Vote on Executive Compensation

At our 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, approximately 97% of the votes on our non-binding, advisory proposal to approve compensation provided to our named executive officers in 2023 voted “FOR” the approval of the proposal. Although this advisory vote is not binding on our compensation committee, the compensation committee considers this result in its review and approval of our executive compensation programs and policies.

#### Equity Ownership Guidelines
We have equity ownership guidelines for our executive officers as well as our non-employee directors. For more information about our equity ownership guidelines for non-employee directors, see “Board of Directors and Corporate Governance—Outside Director Compensation—Director Equity Ownership Guidelines.” The guidelines require our chief executive officer to hold shares equal in value to three times annual base salary. Other executive officers must hold shares equal in value to their annual salary. Executive officers have five years from November 1, 2019, when the guidelines were adopted, or if later, from the time they become executive officers, to meet the ownership guidelines. Shares counted for this purpose include issued shares owned by the executive officer or members of the executive officer’s immediate family members residing in the same household, including shares held in trusts, limited partnerships, or similar entities for the sole benefit of the executive officer or his immediate family members residing in the same household.

As of December 31, 2024, all of our executive officers satisfy the equity ownership guidelines for executive officers.

#### Compensation Recovery Policy
In November 2023, our board of directors adopted a revised compensation recovery policy applicable to our current and former executive officers. The compensation recovery policy is intended to comply with Section 10D and Rule 10D-1 of the Exchange Act and the relevant Nasdaq listing standards. Pursuant to the compensation recovery policy, if we are required to prepare an accounting restatement due to our material noncompliance with any financial reporting requirement under applicable securities laws, our compensation committee (or the independent members of our board of directors or another committee of independent members of our board of directors, if determined in the discretion of our board of directors) must determine what incentive-based compensation, if any, must be recovered from our executive officers. Subject to the limited exceptions set forth in the policy