Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
As previously disclosed, following its annual meeting of stockholders onJune 15, 2022 (the "2022 Annual Meeting"),Groupon, Inc. (the "Company"), pursuant to the cooperation agreement (the "Cooperation Agreement") withPale Fire Capital SE ("PFC"), Dusan Senkypl andJan Barta (collectively, "Pale Fire"), increased the size of the Company's Board of Directors (the "Board") to nine (9) directors and appointed Dusan Senkypl to the Board. Dusan Senkypl, age 46, has served as a Partner of PFC, a private equity investment group that invests in ecommerce companies both inEurope and worldwide, sinceJanuary 2017 , where he also served as a director fromNovember 2019 toApril 2021 , and has served as Chairman of the Board sinceApril 2021 . As a Partner in PFC, Mr. Senkypl oversaw PFC's investments in Aukro s.r.o., the largest Czech online marketplace, where he has served as a director since 2019, Favi online s.r.o., a premiere furniture marketplace, and Rouvy, SE, a global indoor cycling app competing withZwift Inc. , where he has served as Chairman of the Board since 2021. Prior to joining PFC, Mr. Senkypl served as founder and CEO ofNetBrokers Holding ("NBH"), which became the largest insurance and finance marketplace in theCzech Republic andSlovakia , from 2014 toDecember 2018 , when it was sold to German media company,Bauer Media Group . Prior to NBH, Mr. Senkypl co-founded and operated multiple ecommerce projects, including ePojisteni.cz, an insurance technology company, where he served as CEO and a director, from 2009 untilFebruary 2019 . Mr. Senkypl earned his Master's Degrees in Math and Information Science from Masaryk's University, Brno,Czech Republic . Mr. Senkypl will receive compensation consistent with the Company's compensation program for non-employee directors, as described in the Company's proxy statement, filed with theU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") onApril 27, 2022 . Other than as described in Item 1.01 of the Company's Form 8-K filed with theSEC onJune 13, 2022 , and the Cooperation Agreement, there are no arrangements or understandings between Mr. Senkypl or any other persons pursuant to which Mr. Senkypl was named a director of the Company. Neither Mr. Senkypl or his immediate family members have any direct or indirect material interest in any transaction or proposed transaction required to be reported under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.
Item 5.07. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.
The Company held its Annual Meeting of Stockholders onJune 15, 2022 . Set forth below are the final voting results for each of the proposals submitted to a vote of the stockholders. Election of Directors Groupon's eight director nominees were elected to the Board and will serve as directors until Groupon's next annual meeting of stockholders or until their respective successors are elected and qualified. The directors were elected with the following vote: For Withheld Broker Non-Vote Kedar Deshpande 14,180,220 254,814 5,592,778 Peter Barris 12,124,422 2,310,612 5,592,778 Robert Bass 12,724,068 1,710,966 5,592,778 Eric Lefkofsky 14,196,772 238,262 5,592,778 Theodore Leonsis 13,286,827 1,148,207 5,592,778 Valerie Mosley 13,441,206 993,828 5,592,778 Helen Vaid 13,288,195 1,146,839 5,592,778 Deborah Wahl 13,467,771 967,263 5,592,778
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Ratification of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for Fiscal Year 2022
The appointment ofDeloitte & Touche LLP as Groupon's independent registered public accounting firm for the 2022 fiscal year was ratified with the following vote: For Against Abstentions 19,981,501 33,825 12,486
Advisory Approval of Groupon's Named Executive Officer Compensation
A proposal to conduct an advisory non-binding resolution approving the compensation of Groupon's named executive officers, as disclosed in the proxy statement, was approved with the following vote:
For Against Abstentions Broker Non-Votes 10,494,887 3,287,946 652,201 5,592,778
Amendment and Restatement of the
A proposal to approve the amendment and restatement of the
For Against Abstentions Broker Non-Votes 11,474,851 2,923,177 37,006 5,592,778
Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits:
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