Company: QLYS
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-013472
Chunk: 89

Company: QUALYS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 89
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 to vote by telephone or by using the Internet as instructed on the enclosed proxy card or execute and return, at your earliest convenience, the enclosed proxy card in the envelope that has also been provided.

| THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS  |
| Foster City, California |
| April [], 2025          |

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APPENDIX A CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT TO THE AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF QUALYS, INC. a Delaware Corporation Qualys, Inc., a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (the “ Corporation”), hereby certifies as follows:

| B. | This Certificate of Amendment to the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation was duly adopted in accordance with Section 242 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware by the Board of Directors of the Corporation and the stockholders of the Corporation. |

| C. | Article VIII, Section 8.1 of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows: |

“8.1 Limitation of Personal Liability. To the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL, as it presently exists or may hereafter be amended from time to time, a director or officer of the Corporation shall not be personally liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director or officer. If the DGCL is amended to authorize corporate action further eliminating or limiting the personal liability of directors or officers, then the liability of a director or officer of the Corporation shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL, as so amended.” IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this Certificate of Amendment to the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation to be signed by a duly authorized officer of the Corporation, on, 2025.

| By:                                   |
| Sumedh S. Thakar                      |
| President and Chief Executive Officer |

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APPENDIX B Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures Qualys reports its financial results in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (“GAAP”). However, management believes that certain non-GAAP financial measures provide users with additional meaningful financial information. The non-GAAP measures presented in this proxy statement include non-GAAP earnings per share (“EPS”) and Adjusted EBITDA. Our calculation of these non-GAAP measures may not