Notice of Extraordinary General Meeting of poLight ASA
Horten, 22 December 2023 – The shareholders of poLight ASA are hereby invited to an Extraordinary General Meeting on Monday 15 January 2024 at 16.00 CET, that will take place at the HQ's premises at Innlaget 5, 3185 Skoppum. Please find attached the notice of the Extraordinary General Meeting together with the attendance and proxy forms.
The Nomination Committee and the company has over a period of time searched for candidates, with relevant experience in the ECO system poLight is operating, for a Board position of poLight replacing Juha Alakarhu who left the board in May 2023.
The Nomination Committee proposes that Jean-Christophe Eloy are elected as new member of the Board. Jean-Christophe Eloy is the founder of Yole Group and its CEO and President. Yole Group is specialized in the semiconductor industry and providing marketing, technology and strategy consulting, reverse engineering and reverse costing in addition to corporate finance services.
Furthermore, the Nomination Committee has been informed by Ms Kongsnes that she has decided to step down from the Board due to high work-load in connection with her role at Investinor AS and other engagements. As a consequence, Ms Kongsnes will resign from the Board at this extraordinary general meeting.
The Nomination Committee proposes that Marianne Bøe replace Ms Kongsnes. Ms Bøe has been a portfolio manager for more than 20 years and has broad and extensive experience from investing in globally listed companies, with a special focus on the technology sector. She holds a Master of Science degree in Economics and Business Administration from Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), and has participated in the Advanced Portfolio Management Program arranged by NFF (Norsk Finansanalytikerforening). Currently Ms Bøe is Head of Investor Relations at IDEX Biometrics, working with investor communication and other administrative related tasks.
The Notice and attendance and proxy forms will be posted electronically or by mail to all shareholders. Notice of Extraordinary General Meeting and related documents are also available at www.polight.com.
Further information from:
Dr. Øyvind Isaksen, CEO, poLight ASA: +47 90 87 63 98
About poLight ASA
poLight ASA (OSE: PLT) offers a patented, proprietary tunable optics technology, starting with its first product, TLens® which replicates “the human eye” experience in autofocus cameras used in devices such as smartphones, wearables, barcode scanners, machine vision systems and various medical equipment. poLight's TLens® enables better system performance and new user experiences due to benefits such as extremely fast focus, small footprint, no magnetic interference, low power consumption and constant field of view. poLight is based in Horten, Norway, with employees in Finland, France, UK, US, China, Taiwan, and the Philippines. For more information, please visit https://www.polight.com