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Item 5.02. | Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangement of Certain Officers. |
• | Ruth’s annual base salary will be $650,000. |
• | Google has agreed to pay Ruth a special one-time sign-on bonus of $5,000,000. (If Ruth terminates her employment with Google before the one year anniversary of her start date, then Ruth will be required to repay the special bonus, prorated for time spent at Google.) |
• | Google has agreed to make the following equity grants to Ruth in the form of Google restricted stock units (GSUs): |
◦ | a $25 million new hire grant to be made on the first Wednesday of the calendar month following the month in which Ruth commences employment with Google (with the first $5 million vesting in December 2015 and the remaining $20 million vesting on a pro-rata quarterly basis in 2016 and 2017) |
◦ | a $40 million biennial grant in 2016 (scheduled to be granted in 2016 at the same time as other senior vice president biennial grants and vesting on a pro-rata quarterly basis from 2016 to 2019) |
• | Google will assist Ruth with relocation-related expenses pursuant to Google’s policy with respect to the relocation of officers. |
• | a change to the compensation structure for Google’s senior vice presidents resulting in (1) the elimination of annual cash bonuses beginning in 2016 (for the 2015 performance year) and the shift to a pay model that includes only an annual base salary and biennial equity grants, and (2) changing the vesting schedule of future biennial equity grants to a pro-rata quarterly vest over a 4-year period (from a 4-year cliff vest); and |
• | a change to the compensation arrangements for Google’s outgoing CFO, Patrick Pichette, to pay out (on a pro-rata basis) the outstanding biennial equity grants that were scheduled to cliff vest in April 2016 and April 2018, based on the time Patrick will have served as Google’s CFO, in order to ensure that he continues performing in the role until such time as Google determines that there has been a smooth transition to the new CFO. |
Exhibit No. | Description |
10.1 | Offer Letter |
GOOGLE INC. | ||
Date: March 26, 2015 | /s/ KENT WALKER | |
Kent Walker Senior Vice President and General Counsel |