Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors;
Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
Director Resignation
On January 20, 2023, Qing Ye notified Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc.
(the "Company") of his resignation from the Company's Board of Directors (the
"Board"), effective immediately. Mr. Ye's decision to resign was not the result
of any disagreement between Mr. Ye and the Company. Mr. Ye will continue to
serve as a consultant to the Company.
Director Appointment
On January 25, 2023, upon the recommendation of the Nominating and Corporate
Governance Committee, the Board appointed Chui Tin Mok to serve as an executive
Director, effective immediately. On the same date, the Board appointed Mr. Mok
as a member of the Finance and Investment Committee of the Board.
Mr. Mok, age 47, has served as the Company's Executive Vice President and the
Global Head of User Ecosystem since August 2018. In his position, he oversees
the Global User Ecosystem team which includes the strategy development and
execution of the Company's Brand and Marketing Communications, O2O Sales and
aftersales, User Operations, as well as the establishment of the Eco-O2O Direct
Sales System. Mr. Mok is a senior leader with over 15 years of executive
experience in the global consumer electronics, high-tech Internet industries and
intelligent electric vehicle industries and was a core executive who
participated in the early establishment of the Company. Prior to joining the
Company, Mr. Mok worked in Trend Lab Limited, which Mr. Mok founded in January
2018. From September 2017 to January 2018, Mr. Mok was the President of EFT
Solutions Limited (HKEx: 8062), a Hong Kong public company that provides online
and offline payment solutions. From 2013 to 2017, Mr. Mok served as the Group
Chief Marketing Officer of LeEco Group and also the Chief Executive Officer of
LeEco APAC. Mr. Mok served as the Global Vice President of Sales and Marketing
of Meizu Technology Co., Ltd. from 2010 to 2013. Mr. Mok received his Higher
Diploma in Building Service Engineering from Hong Kong Institute of Vocational
Education, and his Executive Master Degree in Business Administration from
International Business Academy of Switzerland.
Mr. Mok is a member of the board of managers of FF Global Partners LLC ("FF
Global"), the parent company of FF Top LLC ("FF Top"), which is the Company's
largest stockholder, and a member of FF Global's executive committee.
On January 20, 2023, in accordance with the Heads of Agreement, dated as of
September 23, 2022, by and between the Company, FF Top and FF Global, as amended
pursuant to the Amended Shareholder Agreement entered into by the Company and FF
Top, dated July 21, 2021 and amended on January 13, 2023, the Selection
Committee has approved the nomination of Mr. Mok for election to the Board in
the Company's 2023 annual meeting of stockholders as one of FF Top's designees.
As previously disclosed by the Company in various filings with the SEC (most
recently in the Company's registration statement on Form S-1, filed on December
23, 2022), Mr. Mok was one of the note purchasers party to the note purchase
agreement (as amended, restated and otherwise modified from time to time, the
"Note Purchase Agreement") entered into by FF Intelligent Mobility Global
Holdings Ltd., an exempted company with limited liability incorporated under the
laws of the Cayman Islands ("Legacy FF") (which was a party to the July 2021
business combination (the "Business Combination") with Property Solutions
Acquisition Corp. ("PSAC"), the Company's predecessor, and PSAC Merger Sub Ltd.,
an exempted company with limited liability incorporated under the laws of the
Cayman Islands and wholly-owned subsidiary of PSAC) on April 29, 2019 with
certain purchasers, U.S. Bank National Association, as the notes agent, and
Birch Lake Fund Management, LP as the collateral agent. In May 2019, Legacy FF
executed a joinder agreement to the Note Purchase Agreement with Chui Tin Mok
for a convertible note payable with a total principal of $1.7 million (the "Tin
Mok Note"). The note payable matured on May 31, 2020 and the interest rate,
collateral, and covenants are the same as the Note Purchase Agreement. Pursuant
thereto, upon certain events, Chui Tin Mok had the option to convert all of the
outstanding principal and accrued interest of the note payable plus a 20%
premium into shares of stock. At the closing of the Business Combination, the
Company settled Tin Mok Note paying cash and converting the outstanding
principal balance and accrued interest into shares of the Company's Class A
common stock.
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In August 2018, Mr. Mok took a $2.54 million loan from Ocean View Drive, Inc.,
an entity formerly controlled by Yueting Jia, the Company's founder and Chief
Product and User Ecosystem Officer, and now wholly owned by the spouse of Ruokun
Jia, the former Assistant Treasurer of the Company. The loan remains outstanding
as of December 31, 2022.
In connection with his appointment to the Board, Mr. Mok is expected to enter
into an indemnity agreement with the Company on the same terms as the indemnity
agreements entered into by the directors and executive officers of the Company
at the time of the Business Combination.
Item 7.01. Regulation FD Disclosure
A copy of the Company's press release announcing Mr. Mok's appointment to the
Board described in Item 5.02 is being furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current
Report on Form 8-K.
The information in this Item 7.01, including Exhibit 99.1 hereto, shall not be
deemed "filed" for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), or otherwise subject to the liabilities
of that section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except as
expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.
Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits. The following exhibits are filed with this Current Report on Form
8-K:
No. Description of Exhibits
99.1 Press Release dated January 26, 2023.
104 Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document).
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