Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
Employee Cash Incentive Plan
On May 4, 2022, the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors (the “Committee”) of AppHarvest, Inc. (the “Company”) adopted an Amended and Restated Employee Cash Incentive Plan (the “Amended Cash Incentive Plan”) which will govern the terms of annual cash incentive awards granted to eligible employees of the Company, as determined by the Committee from time to time. The Company’s named executive officers are eligible to participate in the Amended Cash Incentive Plan, except that Jonathan Webb, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, is not eligible to participate for the 2022 and 2023 performance periods. The Committee (or its delegate) will administer the Amended Cash Incentive Plan and will have the authority to determine all of the awards granted under the Amended Cash Incentive Plan.
The Amended Cash Incentive Plan provides for a cash incentive award determined based on the achievement of specified annual Company performance goals, which include financial and ESG metrics, and individual performance goals. The Committee will approve weighting for each financial and ESG metric. The performance measures for the Company’s named executive officers for the Company’s fiscal year ending December 31, 2022 will be described in the Company’s annual proxy statement filed in 2023. Each eligible employee will be assigned an individual incentive target, expressed as a percentage of the employee’s annual base salary. The 2022 incentive targets for the Company’s current named executive officers are as follows:
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| | Incentive Target |
Jonathan Webb Chief Executive Officer | | — | % |
David Lee President | | 100 | % |
Loren Eggleton Chief Financial Officer | | 60 | % |
Following the end of each annual performance period, the Committee will determine achievement of the Company and individual performance goals. The Committee may modify and/or adjust the performance goals or the related level of achievement, in whole or in part, as it deems appropriate or equitable. Any cash incentive awards that become payable under the Amended Cash Incentive Plan will generally be paid no later than March 15th of the year following the end of the applicable performance period. In order to receive an award under the Amended Cash Incentive Plan, the participant must generally remain employed and in good standing with the Company through the date of payment.
The foregoing description of the Amended Cash Incentive Plan is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Amended Cash Incentive Plan, a copy of which will be filed as an exhibit to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the three months ended June 30, 2022.