lazr-20220819

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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.

(d) On August 19, 2022 (the “Effective Date”), the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Luminar Technologies, Inc. appointed Mr. Daniel D. Tempesta as a Class II director of Luminar with an initial term to expire at the annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2025. In connection with this appointment, as of the Effective Date, the Board also approved an increase in the size of the Board from seven to eight members. Additionally, as of the Effective Date, the Board appointed Mr. Tempesta as a member of the Audit Committee of the Board.

Mr. Tempesta is executive vice president and chief financial officer of Nuance Communications, Inc., a technology pioneer with market leadership in conversational AI and ambient intelligence. His responsibilities have included oversight of Nuance’s finance and accounting operations, as well as tax, treasury, investor relations, order management, and procurement. Nuance was acquired by Microsoft Corporation in March 2022. Prior to Nuance, Mr. Tempesta was the corporate controller and chief accounting officer at Teradyne, Inc. He began his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, where he held a number of roles in the assurance practice serving technology clients.

Mr. Tempesta does not have any family relationships with any of Luminar’s directors or executive officers and is not a party to any transactions of the type required to be disclosed under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.

Mr. Tempesta will receive cash and equity compensation in accordance with Luminar’s Director Compensation Policy for non-employee directors. Mr. Tempesta also is expected to enter into an indemnification agreement with Luminar consistent with the form agreement executed with each of Luminar’s current directors.

On August 19, 2022, Luminar’s Compensation & Human Capital Management Committee (the “Compensation Committee”) approved equity compensation for Luminar’s CFO, Thomas Fennimore, and CLO, Alan Prescott, who elected to receive the majority of their compensation in the form of stock-price and milestone-based performance targets. This compensation is eligible to vest, if at all, only upon the collective achievement of highly aggressive stock price milestones among other conditions, including:

•Public Market Performance: Achievement of three stock price milestones: $50 or more, $60 or more, and $70 or more. Stock price will be measured based on volume-weighted average price per share for 90 consecutive trading days;

These market performance milestones, and the time period during which they would need to be achieved, are identical to those that apply to the previously announced compensation program for Luminar’s CEO, Austin Russell, in May 2022. As a result, all of the executive officers of Luminar received the majority or entirety of their 2022 awards in the form of long-term performance-based compensation that requires a nearly eight times increase in stock price among other conditions to fully vest. The Compensation Committee and Luminar’s executive officers believe long-term incentives tied to operational and market performance is important.

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.


	Luminar Technologies, Inc.

Date: August 23, 2022	By:	/s/ Thomas J. Fennimore
	Name:	Thomas J. Fennimore
	Title:	Chief Financial Officer