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Item 5.02.
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Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
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(b), (c), (d) and (e)
On May 9, 2021, the VMware Board of Directors (the “Board”) elected Rangarajan (Raghu) Raghuram, age 58, the Company’s current Chief Operating Officer (“COO”), Products and Cloud Services, as Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) and Sumit Dhawan, age 46, the Company’s current Chief Customer Experience Officer, as President, both effective as of June 1, 2021. Zane Rowe, who has been serving as interim CEO, will return to his role as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President.
On May 9, 2021, in connection with his election as CEO, the VMware Board also elected Mr. Raghuram as a Class II, Group I member of the Board and appointed him to serve as a member of its Mergers and Acquisitions Committee effective as of June 1, 2021.
Mr. Raghuram has served as VMware’s COO, Products and Cloud Services since October 2016 and has been guiding VMware’s cloud and SaaS transformation efforts. Prior to that he served as Executive Vice President, Software-Defined Data Center division from April 2012 to October 2016. Mr. Raghuram joined VMware in 2003 and has held multiple product management and marketing roles. Mr. Raghuram served as Senior Vice President and General Manager, Cloud Infrastructure and Management, Virtualization and Cloud Platforms, and Enterprise Products, from December 2009 through March 2012. Mr. Raghuram previously served as Vice President of VMware’s Server business unit and of Product and Solutions Marketing through December 2009. Prior to VMware, Mr. Raghuram held product management and marketing roles at Netscape Communications Corporation and Bang Networks, Inc. Mr. Raghuram holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
Mr. Dhawan has served as VMware’s Senior Vice President and Chief Customer Experience Officer since February 2020. Prior to that, Mr. Dhawan served as CEO of Instart (formerly Instart Logic), a multinational cloud company focused on web and mobile application delivery, customer experience and security for enterprise customers, from May 2018 until February 2020. Previously, Mr. Dhawan joined VMware in September 2013 and served in various roles in VMware’s End User Computing group, including as Senior Vice President, Desktop Products from July 2014 to November 2016 and as Senior Vice President and General Manager of VMware’s End User Computing group from November 2016 through May 2018.
In connection with their appointments as CEO and President, respectively, VMware entered into offer letters with each of Messrs. Raghuram and Dhawan (the “Offer Letters”) setting forth the terms of their employment and compensation. Pursuant to the Offer Letters, Messrs. Raghuram and Dhawan will receive base salaries of $1,000,000 and $850,000, respectively, and be eligible for annual incentive cash bonuses with target payouts of 150% and 125% of base salary, respectively, under VMware’s Executive Bonus Plan.
The Offer Letters also provide that Messrs. Raghuram and Dhawan will be granted equity awards that will commence vesting on the start date of their new positions, as described below.
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Messrs. Raghuram and Dhawan will be granted performance stock units based on absolute and relative total shareholder return metrics (“TSR PSUs”) with a target number of TSR PSUs subject to the grants having grant date values of $12 million and $10 million respectively, as determined by VMware using a fair value methodology that utilizes the 15-day trailing average stock price of VMware Class A common stock as of June 1, 2021 (the “Base Date”) as the base price (the “Base Price”) for measuring VMware’s total stockholder return (“TSR”) over a five-year performance period running through June 1, 2026. The TSR PSUs will fund progressively with respect to one-eighth of the total number of TSR PSUs as VMware’s 90-day trailing average stock price appreciation exceeds performance tranches set at 50%, 75%, 100%, 125%, 150%, 200%, 250% and 300% above the Base Price. Vesting will occur on the third-, fourth- and fifth-year anniversaries of the Base Date. On each vesting date, VMware’s TSR performance to date will be measured against the performance goals in the TSR PSUs to determine achievement, and VMware’s TSR relative to the TSR of the S&P 500 IT Index (the “Index”) will also be measured, with potential payouts subject to cutback if VMware does not equal or exceed the median TSR performance of the Index.
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