Company: SOBR
Filing Date: 2025-06-23
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001477932-25-004765
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Company: SOBR Safe, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-06-23
Form: DEF 14A
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 until their death, resignation, or removal by the Board of Directors. Unless described below, there are no family relationships among any of the directors and officers.

| Name                 |     | Age |     | Position(s)                                                                                          |
| David Gandini        |     |  67 |     | Chief Executive Officer, Secretary, Chairman of the Board, and Director                              |
| Christopher Whitaker |     |  53 |     | Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Executive Vice President of Business Operations and Marketing |
| J. Steven Beabout    |     |  71 |     | Lead Independent Director (Chairperson of Compensation Committee)                                    |
| Ford Fay             |     |  65 |     | Independent Director                                                                                 |
| Kris Pederson        |     |  61 |     | Independent Director (Chairperson of Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee)                  |
| Sandy Shoemaker      |     |  56 |     | Independent Director (Chairperson of Audit Committee)                                                |

David Gandini has served as our Chief Executive Officer since October 18, 2021, and on our Board of Directors since November 2019. Mr. Gandini has been consulting regarding our business development since December 2018. Since September 2018, Mr. Gandini has also been a managing partner with First Capital Advisory Services, where he was responsible for capital creation, new business acquisition, business strategy and development, and partnership revenue generation. From 2014 to August 2017, Mr. Gandini was President of Alchemy Plastics, Inc., Englewood Colorado where he was responsible for US manufacturing, sales, and strategic partnerships. From 2001 until 2014, when the company was acquired, Mr. Gandini served as the President of IPS Denver, a bank card personalization and packaging entity where he managed the company and market transformations to become a leader in the U.S. secured gift market space with revenues of $46M. Prior to his engagement at IPS, Mr. Gandini was the Chief Operations Officer at First World Communications, a major U.S. Internet and Data Center provider, and participated in its successful IPO in 2000 raising over $200M. Previously, Mr. Gandini founded Pace Network Services providing carrier SS7 signaling to U.S. long distance providers and facilitated a successful exit to ICG Communications on the heels of co-founding Detroit based Digital Signal in the fiber optic long haul market sector where me managed a successful exit to SP Telecom. Mr. Gand