Company: VUZI
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-036288
Chunk: 1

Company: Vuzix Corp
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 1
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 RSUs) to                                                                            
 executive officers and other employees of the Company under the Company’s 2023 Equity Incentive Plan, including 291,878 RSUs                   
 to Paul Travers, the Company’s chief executive officer, and 118,211 RSUs to Grant Russell, the Company’s chief financial                       
 officer and concurrent cancellation of 5,089,500 options previously granted to such officers and others.                                       |

| 7. | To transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting or any adjournment thereof. |

The record date for the annual meeting is April 21, 2025. Only stockholders of record at the close of business on that date may vote at the meeting or any adjournment thereof. Our transfer books will not be closed.

| By Order of the Board of Directors |
| /s/ Eric Black                     |
| Eric Black                         |
| Corporate Secretary                |

| Dated: | April __, 2025           |
|        | West Henrietta, New York |

You are cordially invited to attend in person. We are furnishing proxy materials to some of our stockholders via the Internet and by mailing a Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials, rather than mailing or emailing copies of those materials. The Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials directs stockholders to a website where they can access our proxy materials, including our proxy statement and our annual report, and view instructions on how to vote via the Internet, mobile device, or by telephone. If you received a Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials and would prefer to receive a paper copy of our proxy materials, please follow the instructions included in the Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials. 1 Table of Contents

| Notice of Annual Meeting of Stockholders                                                 |  1 |
| Proxy Statement for 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders                                  |  3 |
| Questions and Answers about this Proxy Material and Voting                               |  4 |
| Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management                           |  9 |
| Proposal 1 – Election of Directors                                                       | 11 |
| Proposal 2 – Ratification of the Company’s Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm | 20 |
| Proposal 3 – Advisory Vote on Executive Compensation                                     | 26 |
| Proposal 4 – Advisory Vote on Frequency of                                               
 Future Advisory Votes on Executive Compensation                                          | 27 |
| Proposal 5 – Amendment to Certificate of                                                 
 Incorporation to Increase Authorized Shares of Common Stock                              | 37 |