Company: QLYS
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-013472
Chunk: 76

Company: QUALYS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 76
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akar |     |        68,911 |     |   8,008,889 |     |       96,914 |     |  15,495,949 |
| Joo Mi Kim       |     |             — |     |           — |     |       39,633 |     |   6,318,212 |
| Bruce K. Posey   |     |        10,000 |     |   1,238,445 |     |       26,135 |     |   4,089,030 |

| (1) | The value realized upon exercise was determined by multiplying (i) the number of shares of our common stock acquired on exercise by (ii) the difference between the closing price per share on the Nasdaq Stock Market of our common stock on the day of exercise and the exercise price per share. |

| (2) | The value realized upon vesting was determined by multiplying (i) the number of shares of our common stock acquired on vesting by (ii) the closing price per share on the Nasdaq Stock Market of our common stock on the day of vesting. |

Pension Benefits & Nonqualified Deferred Compensation We do not provide a pension plan for our employees, and no named executive officers participated in a nonqualified deferred compensation plan during 2024.

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Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control Severance and Change in Control Policies Our board of directors approved (i) a severance and change in control policy for our CEO in April 2021, and (ii) for our other named executive officers in October 2021. The severance and change in control payments and benefits under these policies supersede any prior agreement or arrangement the named executive officers may have had with us that provided for severance and/or change in control payments or benefits. Under these policies, in the event of a qualifying termination of the employment of a named executive officer that is not in connection with a change in control of the Company (i.e. an involuntary termination of employment without “cause”), the named executive officer will receive the following benefits:

| • | severance pay equal to (i) in the case of Mr. Thakar, 12 months of his annual base salary, or (ii) in the case of each of the other named executive officers, (A) 3 months of the named executive officer’s annual base salary, if he or she has been employed by us for less than 1 year,