Rocket Fuel (NASDAQ: FUEL), a leading Programmatic Marketing Platform provider, today announced that it granted an equity award to its new chief financial officer on March 16, 2016, under its 2016 Inducement Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”). The Plan was originally adopted by the Board of Directors of the company effective March 4, 2016 in accordance with NASDAQ Listing Rule 5635(c)(4).

The company granted a nonstatutory stock option to purchase an aggregate of up to 414,150 shares of Rocket Fuel common stock to Rex Jackson, who joined the company as chief financial officer on March 16, 2016. The option has a 10-year term and an exercise price of $3.41 per share, which was the closing price of Rocket Fuel’s common stock on the grant date. The option will vest as to 25% of the award on the first anniversary of Mr. Jackson’s start date and as to 1/48th of the award each month thereafter, subject to Mr. Jackson’s continued employment through each relevant date.

The grant was approved by the Compensation Committee of the company’s Board of Directors effective March 16, 2016. As required by NASDAQ Listing Rule 5635(c)(4), the grant was made as a material inducement for Mr. Jackson entering into an employment relationship with the company.

About Rocket Fuel

A leading Programmatic Marketing Platform provider, Rocket Fuel Inc. (NASDAQ: FUEL) offers brands, agencies, and platform partners managed services, as well as a SaaS-based Data Management Platform (DMP) and Demand Side Platform (DSP), to optimize performance, awareness, and lift across marketing objectives, channels and devices. By applying artificial intelligence at big data scale, Rocket Fuel’s Moment Scoring™ technology performs a real-time calculation of each ad opportunity based on a marketer’s goal to determine the likelihood a consumer will engage in a desired action. Moment Scoring technology is designed to go beyond 1:1 marketing by learning to predict what marketing actions to take with a campaign at a precise moment in time, which results in a much more efficient use of marketing dollars. Rocket Fuel serves more than 75 of the Ad Age 100, three of the top five agency holding company trading desks, and partners with some of the world’s leading CRM platforms, marketing platforms and systems integrators. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, Rocket Fuel has over 20 offices worldwide.

Investor Relations Contact:The Blueshirt GroupWhitney Kukulka, 415-489-2187ir@rocketfuel.comorMedia Contact:Rocket FuelKristin Holloway, 650-481-6178pr@rocketfuel.com

ROCKET FUEL INC. (NASDAQ:FUEL)
Historical Stock Chart
From Mar 2024 to Apr 2024 Click Here for more ROCKET FUEL INC. Charts.
ROCKET FUEL INC. (NASDAQ:FUEL)
Historical Stock Chart
From Apr 2023 to Apr 2024 Click Here for more ROCKET FUEL INC. Charts.