Company: QLYS
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-015182
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Company: QUALYS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form: DEF 14A
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PROPOSAL NO. 3 ADVISORY APPROVAL OF NAMED EXECUTIVE OFFICER COMPENSATION The Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), enables our stockholders to approve, on an advisory or non-binding basis, the compensation of our named executive officers as disclosed pursuant to Section 14A of the Exchange Act. This proposal, commonly known as a “Say-on-Pay” proposal, gives our stockholders the opportunity to express their views on our named executive officers’ compensation as a whole. This vote is not intended to address any specific item of compensation or any specific named executive officer, but rather the overall compensation of all of our named executive officers and the philosophy, policies and practices described in this proxy statement. The Say-on-Pay vote is advisory, and therefore is not binding on us, our Compensation and Talent Committee or our board of directors. The Say-on-Pay vote will, however, provide information to us regarding investor sentiment about our executive compensation philosophy, policies and practices, which our Compensation and Talent Committee will be able to consider when determining executive compensation for the remainder of the current fiscal year and beyond. Our board of directors and our Compensation and Talent Committee value the opinions of our stockholders and to the extent there is any significant vote against the named executive officer compensation as disclosed in this proxy statement, we will endeavor to communicate with stockholders to better understand the concerns that influenced the vote, and our Compensation and Talent Committee will consider our stockholders’ concerns and evaluate whether any actions are necessary to address those concerns. We believe that the information provided in the “ Executive Compensation” section of this proxy statement, and in particular the information discussed in the section entitled “ Executive Compensation—Compensation Discussion and Analysis—Philosophy and Objectives” beginning on page 39below, demonstrates that our executive compensation program was designed appropriately and is working to ensure management’s interests are aligned with our stockholders’ interests to support long-term value creation. Accordingly, we ask our stockholders to vote “FOR” the following resolution at the Annual Meeting: “RESOLVED, that the stockholders approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation paid to the named executive officers, as disclosed in the proxy statement for the Annual Meeting pursuant to the compensation disclosure rules of the SEC, including the compensation discussion and analysis, compensation tables and narrative discussion, and other related disclosure.” THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS RECOMMENDS A VOTE “FOR” THE APPROVAL, ON