Outside Director Compensation Policy
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Exhibit 10.10
DOMO, INC.
OUTSIDE DIRECTOR COMPENSATION POLICY
Adopted and approved June 15, 2018
Domo, Inc. (the “Company”) believes that providing cash and equity compensation to its members of the Board of Directors (the “Board,” and members of the Board, the “Directors”) represents an effective tool to attract, retain and reward Directors who are not employees of the Company (the “Outside Directors”). This Outside Director Compensation Policy (the “Policy”) is intended to formalize the Company’s policy regarding cash compensation and grants of equity awards to its Outside Directors. Unless otherwise defined herein, capitalized terms used in this Policy will have the meaning given such term in the Company’s 2018 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”). Each Outside Director will be solely responsible for any tax obligations incurred by such Outside Director as a result of the equity and cash payments such Outside Director receives under this Policy.
Subject to Section 8 of this Policy, this Policy will be effective as of the effective date of the registration statement in connection with the initial public offering of the Company’s securities (the “Registration Statement”) (such date, the “Effective Date”).
1. | CASH COMPENSATION |
Annual Cash Retainer
Each Outside Director will be paid an annual cash retainer of $30,000. There are no per‑meeting attendance fees for attending Board meetings. This cash compensation will be paid quarterly in arrears on a prorated basis.
Committee Annual Cash Retainer
As of the Effective Date, each Outside Director who serves as the lead Outside Director or the chair or a member of a committee of the Board will be eligible to earn additional annual fees (paid quarterly in arrears on a prorated basis) as follows:
Lead Outside Director: | $15,000 | |
Chairman of Audit Committee: | $20,000 | |
Member of Audit Committee: | $7,500 | |
Chairman of Compensation Committee: | $10,500 | |
Member of Compensation Committee: | $5,000 | |
Chairman of Nominating and Governance Committee: | $7,500 | |
Member of Nominating and Governance Committee: | $3,000 |
For clarity, each Outside Director who serves as the chair of a committee will not receive both the additional annual fee as the chair of the committee and the additional annual fee as a member of the committee.
2. | EQUITY COMPENSATION |
Outside Directors will be eligible to receive all types of Awards (except Incentive Stock Options) under the Plan (or the applicable equity plan in place at the time of grant), including discretionary Awards not covered under this Policy. All grants of Awards to Outside Directors pursuant to Section 2 of this Policy will be automatic and nondiscretionary, except as otherwise provided herein, and will be made in accordance with the following provisions:
(a) No Discretion. No person will have any discretion to select which Outside Directors will be granted any Awards under this Policy or to determine the number of Shares to be covered by such Awards.
(b) Initial Awards. Subject to Section 11 of the Plan, each individual who first becomes an Outside Director following the Effective Date will be granted an award of restricted stock units (an “Initial Award”) covering a number of Shares having a grant date fair value (determined in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles) (the “Value”) of $300,000, rounded down to the nearest whole Share. The Initial Award will be made on the first trading date on or after the date on which such individual first becomes an Outside Director (the first date as an Outside Director, the “Initial Start Date”), whether through election by the stockholders of the Company or appointment by the Board to fill a vacancy. If an individual was a member of the Board and also an employee, becoming an Outside Director due to termination of employment will not entitle the Outside Director to an Initial Award. Each Initial Award will vest as to one-third (1/3rd) of the Shares subject to the Initial Award on each anniversary of the Outside Director’s Initial Start Date, in each case subject to the Outside Director continuing to be a Service Provider through the applicable vesting date. Each Initial Award will fully vest immediately prior to a Change in Control, subject to the Outside Director continuing to be a Service Provider at the time of the Change in Control.
(c) Annual Award. Subject to Section 11 of the Plan, on the date of each annual meeting of the Company’s stockholders (“Annual Meeting”) following the Effective Date, or if the individual was an Outside Director as of June 15, 2018, then on the date of each Annual Meeting beginning with the 2021 Annual Meeting, each Outside Director will be automatically granted an award of restricted stock units (an “Annual Award”) covering a number of Shares having a Value of $150,000 (the “Annual Award Value”), rounded down to the nearest whole Share. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (x) if the Outside Director’s Initial Start Date occurred during the period beginning on the date six (6) months before the date of the Annual Meeting in connection with which the Annual Award will be granted (the “Award Annual Meeting Date”) and ending on the date three (3) months before the Award Annual Meeting Date, and the Outside Director received an Initial Award in connection with his or her initial Outside Director service, then the Annual Award Value will be equal to $75,000; or (y) if the Outside Director’s Initial Start Date occurred less than three (3) months before the Award Annual Meeting Date, then no Annual Award will be granted to the Outside Director on that Award Annual Meeting Date. Each Annual Award will vest on the earlier of (i) the one-year anniversary of the date the Annual Award is granted or (ii) the day prior
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to the date of the Annual Meeting next following the date the Annual Award is granted, in each case, subject to the Outside Director continuing to be a Service Provider through the applicable vesting date. Each Annual Award will fully vest immediately prior to a Change in Control, subject to the Outside Director continuing to be a Service Provider.
3. | CHANGE IN CONTROL |
In the event of a Change in Control, each Outside Director will fully vest in his or her outstanding Company equity awards, including any Initial Award or Annual Award, provided that the Outside Director continues to be an Outside Director through such date.
4. | ANNUAL COMPENSATION LIMIT |
No Outside Director may be paid, issued or granted, in any Fiscal Year, cash compensation and Awards with an aggregate value greater than $750,000 (with the value of each Award based on its Grant Value for purposes of the limitation under this Section 4). Any cash compensation paid or Awards granted to an individual for his or her services as an Employee, or for his or her services as a Consultant (other than as an Outside Director), will not count for purposes of the limitation under this Section 4.
5. | TRAVEL EXPENSES |
Each Outside Director’s reasonable, customary and documented travel expenses to Board meetings will be reimbursed by the Company.
6. | ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS |
All provisions of the Plan not inconsistent with this Policy will apply to Awards granted to Outside Directors.
7. | ADJUSTMENTS |
In the event that any dividend or other distribution (whether in the form of cash, Shares, other securities or other property), recapitalization, stock split, reverse stock split, reorganization, merger, consolidation, split-up, spin-off, combination, repurchase, or exchange of Shares or other securities of the Company, or other change in the corporate structure of the Company affecting the Shares occurs, the Administrator, in order to prevent diminution or enlargement of the benefits or potential benefits intended to be made available under this Policy, will adjust the number of Shares issuable pursuant to Awards granted under this Policy.
8. | SECTION 409A |
In no event will cash compensation or expense reimbursement payments under this Policy be paid after the later of (i) the 15th day of the 3rd month following the end of the Company’s fiscal year in which the compensation is earned or expenses are incurred, as applicable, or (ii) the 15th day of the 3rd month following the end of the calendar year in which the compensation is earned or expenses are incurred, as applicable, in compliance with the “short-term deferral” exception
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under Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the final regulations and guidance thereunder, as may be amended from time to time (together, “Section 409A”). It is the intent of this Policy that this Policy and all payments hereunder be exempt from or otherwise comply with the requirements of Section 409A so that none of the compensation to be provided hereunder will be subject to the additional tax imposed under Section 409A, and any ambiguities or ambiguous terms herein will be interpreted to be so exempt or comply. In no event will the Company reimburse an Outside Director for any taxes imposed or other costs incurred as a result of Section 409A.
9. | STOCKHOLDER APPROVAL |
This Policy will be subject to approval by the Company’s stockholders.
10. | REVISIONS |
The Board may amend, alter, suspend or terminate this Policy at any time and for any reason. Further, the Board may provide for cash, equity-based or other compensation to Outside Directors in addition to the compensation provided under this Policy. No amendment, alteration, suspension or termination of this Policy will materially impair the rights of an Outside Director with respect to compensation that already has been paid or awarded, unless otherwise mutually agreed between the Outside Director and the Company. Termination of this Policy will not affect the Board’s or the Compensation Committee’s ability to exercise the powers granted to it under the Plan with respect to Awards granted under the Plan pursuant to this Policy prior to the date of such termination.
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