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Item 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.
4D Molecular Therapeutics, Inc. (the “Company”) held its 2023 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”) on May 23, 2023 virtually via the internet. On March 28, 2023, the record date, there were 33,235,726 shares of the Company’s common stock outstanding with each such share being entitled to one vote per share.
At the Annual Meeting, 27,970,603 shares of the Company’s common stock were voted in person or by proxy for the two proposals set forth below, each of which is described in the Company’s Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on April 12, 2023.
Proposal 1. The Company’s stockholders elected by a majority of votes cast the Class III director nominees below to the Company’s Board of Directors to hold office until the 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders or until their successors are elected.
| NOMINEE |
FOR | WITHHELD | BROKER NON- VOTES |
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| Nancy Miller-Rich |
25,544,878 | 648,302 | 1,777,423 | |||||||||
| John F. Milligan, Ph.D. |
26,011,514 | 181,666 | 1,777,423 | |||||||||
| Shawn Cline Tomasello, MBA |
20,935,207 | 5,257,973 | 1,777,423 | |||||||||
Proposal 2. The Company’s stockholders ratified the selection of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the independent registered public accounting firm of the Company for its fiscal year ending December 31, 2023.
| FOR |
AGAINST |
ABSTAIN | ||
| 27,957,650 | 6,435 | 6,518 |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| 4D MOLECULAR THERAPEUTICS, INC. | ||||||
| Date: May 25, 2023 | By: | /s/ August J. Moretti | ||||
| August J. Moretti | ||||||
| Chief Financial Officer | ||||||