Company: HCKT
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-043233
Chunk: 81

Company: HACKETT GROUP, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 81
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 within the meaning of Rule 405 of Regulation C under the Securities Act.

2.2 “Award Agreement” means the Stock Option agreement, Restricted Stock agreement, Restricted Stock Unit agreement, Stock Appreciation Right agreement, Other Award agreement or other written agreement between the Company and a Grantee that evidences and sets out the terms and conditions of a Grant.

2.3 “Beneficial Owner” means a beneficial owner within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act.

2.4 “Benefit Arrangement” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 15 hereof.

2.5 “Board” means the Board of Directors of the Company.

2.6 “Cause” shall have the meaning, with respect to a Grantee, as set forth in any employment agreement between the Company or any Affiliate and the Grantee;provided,however, that in the absence of an employment agreement containing such definition, “Cause” means, with respect to a Grantee:

the commission of a felony or a crime involving moral turpitude or the commission of any other act or omission involving dishonesty or fraud with respect to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their customers or suppliers;

conduct tending to bring the Company or any of its Subsidiaries into substantial public disgrace or disrepute;

substantial and repeated failure to perform Grantee’s duties, and such failure is not cured within 30 days after the Grantee receives notice thereof;

gross negligence or willful misconduct with respect to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; or

any breach of any confidentiality, non-solicitation or non-competition agreement to which Grantee is bound.

2.7 “Change of Control” means (A) any Person, other than any Person who is a Beneficial Owner of the Company’s securities before the Effective Date, becomes, after the Effective Date, the Beneficial Owner, directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company representing 40% or more of the combined voting power of the Company’s then outstanding securities; (B) during any two-year period, individuals who at the beginning of such period constitute the Board (including, for this purpose, any director who after the beginning of such period filled a vacancy on the Board caused by the resignation, mandatory retirement, death, or disability of a director and whose election or appointment was approved by a vote of at least two-thirds of the directors then in office who were directors at the beginning of such period) cease for any reason