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): March 19, 2018
SANGAMO THERAPEUTICS, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware | 000-30171 | 68-0359556 | ||
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation) |
(Commission File Number) |
(IRS Employer Identification No.) |
501 Canal Blvd., Richmond, California 94804
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
(510) 970-6000
(Registrants 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 March 19, 2018, the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors (the Compensation Committee) of Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc. (the Company) approved the Companys Amended and Restated Incentive Compensation Plan (the Cash Incentive Plan), which amends and restates in its entirety the Companys Incentive Compensation Plan that became effective on June 21, 2012.
The Cash Incentive Plan, which is administered by the Compensation Committee, provides for cash incentive, or bonus, compensation to the Companys employees that may be earned based on the attainment of specified corporate performance objectives and, as applicable, individual performance objectives (collectively, the Performance Objectives) during designated performance periods, subject to the satisfaction of any required continued service conditions, in each case as determined and approved by the Compensation Committee or its designee. Unless otherwise determined by the Compensation Committee, performance periods for the Cash Incentive Plan will occur each calendar year, commencing with the 2018 calendar year (each, a Performance Period). All of the Companys employees, including the Companys executive officers, who are employed with the Company on or before October 31st of a calendar year are eligible to participate in the Cash Incentive Plan for such calendar year (the Eligible Participants).
The amount of an Eligible Participants cash bonus award under the Cash Incentive Plan will generally be based on a target percentage of such Participants annual base pay earned during the applicable Performance Period, or the target award, which target percentages are determined by the Compensation Committee for each of the Companys executive officers. The target percentage for Alexander Macrae, the Companys president and chief executive officer, has been set at 60% for the 2018 Performance Period, and the target percentage for each of the Companys other executive officers has been set at 35% for the 2018 Performance Period. Actual cash bonus awards will be calculated based upon the level of attainment of the Performance Objectives established for each applicable Performance Period. Corporate performance objectives, which mean one or more specific Company performance objectives designated by the Compensation Committee for a particular Performance Period that may be (but are not required to be) subject to minimum, or threshold, performance levels, may include: (i) revenue or sales targets, (ii) discovery and development milestones, (iii) commercialization milestones, (iv) manufacturing goals, (v) expense targets, (vi) share price, (vii) total shareholder return, (viii) earnings per share, (ix) operating margin, (x) gross margin, (xi) return measures, (xii) productivity ratios, (xiii) operating income, (xiv) net operating profit, (xv) net earnings or net income, (xvi) cash flow, (xvii) earnings before or after interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and/or stock-based compensation expense, (xviii) economic value added, (xix) market share, (xx) working capital targets, (xxi) achievement of specified milestones relating to strategic transactions, (xxii) employee retention and recruiting and human resources management, and (xxiii) other corporate performance criteria approved by the Compensation Committee, including regulatory goals or milestones, financing objectives and the implementation or completion of projects or processes (the Corporate Objectives). Individual performance objectives may include one or more of the following criteria: (i) the Eligible Participants contribution toward the achievement of a specific Corporate Objective, (ii) the contribution of the business unit or division supervised by the Eligible Participant toward the achievement of a specific Corporate Objective, (iii) the Eligible Participants development of professional skills, and (iv) other criteria, including overall individual performance during the Performance Period. Unless otherwise determined by the Compensation Committee, the actual cash bonus award to an Eligible Participant may not exceed 200% of the Eligible Participants target award.
The foregoing description of the Cash Incentive Plan does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by reference to, the full text of the Cash Incentive Plan. The Company intends to file a copy of the Cash Incentive Plan with the Companys Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ending March 31, 2018.
SIGNATURES
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.
DATE: March 23, 2018 |
SANGAMO THERAPEUTICS, INC. | |||||
By: | /s/ALEXANDER D. MACRAE | |||||
Alexander D. Macrae, M.B., Ch.B., Ph.D. | ||||||
President, Chief Executive Officer |