MCLEAN, Va., Oct. 30, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- WidePoint
Corporation (NYSE Mkt: WYY), a leading provider of Managed Mobility
Services (MMS) specializing in Cybersecurity and Telecommunications
Lifecycle Management (TLM) solutions, today announced the Annual
Meeting of Shareholders (the "Annual Meeting") at the Washington, DC, offices of
Foley & Lardner LLP, located at 3000 K Street N.W.,
Sixth Floor, Washington, DC,
20007, on December 17, 2015, at 10:00
a.m. ET. The Company's shareholders of record as of
October 23, 2015, will be eligible to vote at the 2015
Annual Meeting.
At the Annual Meeting, the Company's shareholders will be asked
vote on a proposal to elect the three director nominees named as
Class III directors to serve for a three-year period until the
Annual Meeting of Stockholders in the year 2018 and to elect the
one director nominee as a Class I director to serve until the
Annual Meeting of Stockholders in the year 2016. The Class III
director nominees are James Ritter,
Otto Guenther, and George Norwood, and all are currently serving as
members of the Board. The Class I director nominee for a Board seat
that is currently vacant is Paul
Johnson. The Company's shareholders will also be asked to
ratify the appointment of Moss Adams, LLP, as the Company's
independent auditors for the fiscal year ended December 31,
2014.
Mr. Johnson has managed Nicusa Investment Advisors, a firm
focused on advising senior management and boards of directors on
governance, strategy, capital allocation, and shareholder value
creation since its inception in 2012. Mr. Johnson is also a senior
advisor to Bowen Advisors, an organization focused on offering
M&A and strategic advisory services to emerging and high growth
technology firms. Prior to that time, Mr. Johnson was the
general partner and investment manager of Nicusa Capital Partners,
a private investment partnership that he started in 2003, which
invested in virtually all sectors of the economy, with a
concentration in technology. Prior to founding Nicusa, Mr. Johnson
was a Managing Director in the Equity Research Department of
Robertson Stephens, where he worked from 1994 through 2002.
Mr. Johnson has also been an Adjunct Professor of Finance
at the Graduate School of Business, Columbia
University, since 1992, where he teaches courses on
securities analysis and value investing. Mr. Johnson was appointed
as a Fellow to the Gabelli Center for Global Security Analysis at
Fordham University in August 2015 and will teach an introductory class
on value investing at the Fordham
University Graduate Business School starting in January 2016.
Mr. Johnson is co-author of The Gorilla Game: Picking Winners
in High Technology, was a contributing annotator in 2012 to
The Most Important Thing Illuminated, by Howard Marks, and wrote the history of value
investing in the forthcoming book celebrating the 100-year history
of the Columbia Business School. Mr.
Johnson is also co-author of the forthcoming Pitch the Perfect
Investment: The Essential Guide to Winning on Wall Street. Mr.
Johnson has a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA in
Finance from the Executive Program at the Wharton School of the
University of Pennsylvania. For more information see
http://pauljohnsonnyc.branded.me
About WidePoint
WidePoint (NYSE Mkt: WYY) is a leading provider of secure,
cloud-delivered, enterprise-wide information technology-based
solutions that can enable enterprises and agencies to deploy fully
compliant IT services in accordance with government-mandated
regulations and advanced system requirements. WidePoint has several
major government and commercial contracts. For more information,
visit www.widepoint.com.
Additional Information and Where to Find It
WidePoint has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
(the "SEC") a definitive proxy statement in connection with the
election of certain nominees as directors and certain other matters
to be considered by the stockholders at its Annual Meeting. The
definitive proxy statement was sent beginning on October 30, 2015 to stockholders of record on
October 23, 2015 and contains
important information about the proposed nominees for election as
directors and the other matters to be considered at the Annual
Meeting. The proxy statement for the Annual Meeting and the 2015
Annual Report to Stockholders are available at www.widepoint.com.
Investors are also able to obtain these documents free of charge at
the SEC website (www.sec.gov).
BEFORE MAKING ANY VOTING DECISION, WIDEPOINT'S STOCKHOLDERS ARE
URGED TO READ THE PROXY STATEMENT CAREFULLY AND IN ITS ENTIRETY
BECAUSE IT CONTAINS IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE NOMINEES FOR
ELECTION AS DIRECTORS AND CERTAIN OTHER MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED AT
THE 2015 ANNUAL MEETING. This press release does not constitute a
solicitation of any vote or approval.
Participants in the Solicitation. The directors, nominees
for election as director, executive officers and certain other
members of management and employees of WidePoint may be deemed
"participants" in the solicitation of proxies from stockholders in
connection with the matters to be considered at the Annual Meeting.
Information regarding the persons who may, under the rules of the
SEC, be considered participants in the solicitation of the
stockholders in connection with such matters is set forth in the
definitive proxy statement filed with the SEC.
For More Information:
Jim McCubbin, EVP
& CFO
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Brett Maas or David
Fore
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WidePoint
Corporation
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Hayden IR
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7926 Jones Branch
Drive, Suite 520
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(646)
536-7331
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McLean, VA
22102
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brett@haydenir.com
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(703)
349-2577
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jmccubbin@widepoint.com
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