Edgar Filing: Zosano Pharma Corp

ZOSANO PHARMA CORPORATION

Dated: January 16, 2019

/s/ Gregory Kitchener

Name: Gregory Kitchener

Title: Chief Financial Officer

8-K

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 OR 15(d)

of The Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): January 14, 2019

ZOSANO PHARMA CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware

001-36570

45-4488360

(State or other jurisdiction

of incorporation)

(Commission

File Number)

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

34790 Ardentech Court

Fremont, CA 94555

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

(510) 745-1200

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code

Not applicable

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)

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Item 5.02

Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

On January 14, 2019, the Board of Directors of Zosano Pharma Corporation (the “Company”) appointed Linda Grais M.D., J.D., effective immediately, to serve as a member of the Board. Dr. Grais was appointed as a Class I director, with an initial term expiring at the Company’s 2021 annual meeting of stockholders.

Dr. Grais will receive annual cash compensation of $45,000 for her service as a member of the Board of Directors.

The Company also granted Dr. Grais an option to purchase 25,000 shares of its common stock at an exercise price of $2.56 per share, which was the closing price of the Company’s common stock on the Nasdaq Capital Market on the date of grant. The stock option was granted pursuant to the Company’s Amended and Restated 2014 Equity and Incentive Plan, as amended, and vests with respect to 25% of the shares underlying the option on the one year anniversary of the date of grant. The remaining shares underlying the option will vest in equal monthly installments over the following three years, so that the option will be fully vested and exercisable on the fourth anniversary of the date of grant.

Dr. Grais will also have the benefit of the Company’s standard form of indemnification agreement.

SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.