Company: JUNS
Filing Date: 2025-10-28
Form Type: PRER14A
Source: 0001493152-25-019793
Chunk: 90

Company: JUPITER NEUROSCIENCES, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-10-28
Form: PRER14A
Chunk 90
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 in the amount of $583,213.

On March 15, 2024, a former executive agreed to forgive $100,000 of accrued compensation in exchange for 49,605 options to purchase common stock and 7,500 restricted stock units, The options to purchase common stock have a strike price of $1.33. The option had a grant date fair value of $50,000. The Company recorded a gain on the forgiveness of accrued compensation in the amount of $40,000.

As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, $64,105 and $67,750, respectively, was due to a Company wholly owned by the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, who also is an option holder. The amount is included in accrued compensation on the Company’s balance sheets.

Director Independence

Our common stock is listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market. Under applicable rules of the Nasdaq Capital Market, a director will only qualify as an “independent director” if, in the opinion of the listed company’s board of directors, that person does not have a relationship that would interfere with the exercise of independent judgment in carrying out the responsibilities of a director. In order to be considered independent for purposes of Rule 10A-3, a member of an audit committee of a listed company may not, other than in his or her capacity as a member of the audit committee, the board of directors, or any other board committee, accept, directly or indirectly, any consulting, advisory, or other compensatory fee from the listed company or any of its subsidiaries or otherwise be an affiliated person of the listed company or any of its subsidiaries.

The Company’s Board has affirmatively determined that currently three of its seven directors (Christer Rosén, Marshall Hayward, Ph.D., and Alison D. Silva) are non-independent directors of the Company and four of its seven directors (Nicholas H. Hemmerly, Julie Kampf, Allison W. Brady, and Holger Weis) are independent directors of the Company as defined in the Nasdaq standards. Therefore, a majority of the members of our Board are independent.

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The Board knows of no other business which will be presented to the Annual Meeting. If any other business is properly brought before the virtual Annual Meeting, proxies in the enclosed form will be voted in accordance with the judgment of the persons voting the proxies.

We will bear the cost of soliciting proxies in the accompanying form.