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Lithia Motors Inc.
07/02/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 07/02/2024 14:06
Management Change/Compensation Form 8 K
Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
On June 26, 2024, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of Lithia Motors, Inc. (the "Company") elected Cassandra McKinney to fill a vacancy created by the expansion of the Board from seven to eight directors, with service beginning July 1, 2024.
As a non-employee director of the Company, Ms. McKinney will be compensated according to the Company's non-employee director compensation practices. This compensation consists of an annual retainer for service on the Board in the amount of $100,000, which is paid in equal monthly installments and will be pro-rated for Ms. McKinney's months of service in the 2024-2025 service year. Additionally, upon the effectiveness of her election, Ms. McKinney will be granted restricted stock units, which are settled in shares of the Company's common stock ("RSUs"), having an aggregate value of approximately $162,500. The RSUs will vest over the outside director compensation year, with the RSUs vesting proportionately on the first business day of the month after each regularly scheduled quarterly meeting of the Board if Ms. McKinney continues to serve on that day. In addition, the Company will enter into an indemnity agreement with Ms. McKinney in the same form as previously entered into by the Company with its other non-management directors.
Ms. McKinney has spent the past 30 years as a senior executive with prominent banking institutions. She is currently EVP, Retail Bank for Comerica Bank, and a member of Comerica's Management Executive Committee where she is responsible for the company's Consumer and Small Business banking segments which contributed revenue of $965 million in 2023. She runs an approximate $27 billion deposit and loan portfolio, as of December 31, 2023, and is accountable for over 2,500 Comerica colleagues, over 400 banking centers, and over 600 ATMs/ITMs. She joined Comerica in 2005 as SVP, Retail Director of Product and Sales Management. She became SVP, Director of Retail Operations in 2011 and was named SVP, National Director of Retail Delivery and Strategic Services in 2016. Ms. McKinney holds Bachelor's Degrees in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University and Chemistry from Dillard University.
Ms. McKinney will serve as member of the Company's audit and compensation committees.