Company: QLYS
Filing Date: 2025-06-16
Form Type: 8-K
Source: 0001107843-25-000024
Chunk: 1

Company: QUALYS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-06-16
Form: 8-K
Item: Item 5.07
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Item 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

The information set forth in Item 5.03 above is incorporated by reference herein. On June 11, 2025, the Company held the Annual Meeting. Present at the Annual Meeting in person or by proxy were holders of 33,336,177 shares of the Company’s common stock, or approximately 91.70% of the shares outstanding and entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting. The voting results for each of the proposals considered at the Annual Meeting are provided below.

Proposal One - Election of Directors

The stockholders elected each of the following nominees as Class I directors to serve on the Company’s board of directors (the “ Board”) until the Company’s 2028 annual meeting of stockholders or until their respective successors are duly elected and qualified.

  Nominee                  Votes For      Votes Withheld      Broker Non-Votes  
 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  Thomas P. Berquist      28,897,990             883,603             3,554,584  
  Kristi M. Rogers        26,826,665           2,954,928             3,554,584  

The Board is comprised of six members who are divided into three classes with overlapping three-year terms. The term of the Company’s Class II directors, Wendy M. Pfeiffer, and John A. Zangardi, will expire at the Company’s 2026 annual meeting of stockholders. The term of the Company’s Class III directors, Jeffrey P. Hank, and Sumedh S. Thakar, will expire at the Company’s 2027 annual meeting of stockholders.

Proposal Two - Ratification of the Appointment of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

The stockholders ratified the appointment of Grant Thornton LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the Company’s fiscal year ending December 31, 2025.

   Votes For      Votes Against      Abstentions      Broker Non-Votes  
 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  31,326,730          1,992,524           16,923      -                 

Proposal Three - Advisory Approval of Executive Compensation

The stockholders cast their votes with respect to the advisory vote to approve the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers as described in the Proxy Statement, as follows:

   Votes For      Votes Against      Abstentions      Broker Non-V