Company: VUZI
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-036288
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Company: Vuzix Corp
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form: PRE 14A
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. Mr. Travers’ experience as our founder and Chief Executive Officer qualifies him to serve on our Board of Directors. |

| Grant Russell, age 72, is a co-founder and has served as our Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President since 2000 and as a member of our Board of Directors since April 2009. From 1997 to 2004 Mr. Russell developed and subsequently sold a successful software firm and a new concept computer store and cyber café. In 1984, he co-founded Advanced Gravis Computer (Gravis), which, under his leadership as President, grew to become the world’s largest PC and Macintosh joystick manufacturer with sales of $44 million worldwide and 220 employees. Gravis was listed on NASDAQ and the Toronto Stock Exchange. In September 1996, it was acquired by a US-based Fortune 100 company via a successful public tender offer. Mr. Russell holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree in finance from the University of British Columbia and is both a U.S. Certified Public Accountant and a Canadian Chartered Professional Accountant. Mr. Russell resides in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and has a secondary residence in West Henrietta, New York. Mr. Russell’s business executive and financial experience qualifies him to serve on our Board of Directors. |

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| Edward Kay, age 69, has been a director of the Company since April 2016. Mr. Kay                                                              
 is a Certified Public Accountant who spent his 33-year career with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) working with companies in a wide variety  
 of industries, including manufacturing, distribution, software and technology. Mr. Kay served as PwC’s Rochester, NY Office                   
 Managing Partner for 13 years from 1999 to 2012 and, for a time, Managing Partner of the firm’s Upstate NY practice and had been              
 the Leader of PwC’s high technology practice in Dallas, TX from 1993 to 1999. Mr. Kay was formerly a Board member, Executive                  
 Committee member, and Audit Committee Chair of IEC Electronics (NYSE: IEC) from 2013 to 2015 and is currently on the board of a large         
 private company in the product distribution business and that of a pharmaceutical start-up company. Mr. Kay holds a Bachelor of Science       
 degree in Accounting from Duke University and an MBA-Finance degree from Northewestern University. During Mr. Kay’s tenure                    
 at PwC and through