Company: QLYS
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-015182
Chunk: 0

Company: QUALYS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 0
---
UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 SCHEDULE 14A PROXY STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 14(a) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 Filed by the Registrant ☒ Filed by a Party other than the Registrant ☐ Check the appropriate box:

| ☐ | Preliminary Proxy Statement |

| ☐ | Confidential, for Use of the Commission Only (as permitted by Rule 14a-6(e)(2)) |

| ☒ | Definitive Proxy Statement |

| ☐ | Definitive Additional Materials |

| ☐ | Soliciting Material Pursuant to §240.14a-2 |

| QUALYS, INC.                                                         |
| (Name of Registrant as Specified In Its Charter)                     |
| (Name of Person(s) Filing Proxy Statement, if other than Registrant) |

Payment of Filing Fee (Check all boxes that apply):

| ☒ | No fee required. |

| ☐ | Fee paid previously with preliminary materials. |

| ☐ | Fee computed on table in exhibit required by Item 25(b) per Exchange Act Rules 14a-6(i)(1) and 0-11. |

QUALYS, INC. 919 East Hillsdale Boulevard, 4 thFloor Foster City, California 94404 NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS To Be Held at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time on Wednesday, June 11, 2025 TO THE HOLDERS OF COMMON STOCK OF QUALYS, INC.: The 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Qualys, Inc., a Delaware corporation, will be held online on Wednesday, June 11, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time. Stockholders may participate in the meeting only by logging in at: www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/QLYS2025 Stockholders will be able to listen to the meeting live, vote and submit questions. There will be no physical location for stockholders to attend the meeting. The annual meeting will be held for the following purposes as more fully described in the accompanying proxy statement:

| 1. | To elect the two Class I directors named in this proxy statement to serve until the 2028 annual meeting of stockholders or until their successors are duly elected and qualified; |

| 3. | To approve, on an advisory and non-binding basis, the compensation of our