UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 or 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): July 26, 2019

 

ADESTO TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

 

 

 

(408) 400-0578

(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)

 

N/A

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

 

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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

 

Emerging growth company      x

 

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.              x

 

 

 

Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

 

On July 26, 2019, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Adesto Technologies Corporation (the “Company”) elected Susan Uthayakumar and Hervés Fages as members of the Board, to serve as Class I directors whose terms will expire at the Company’s 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders or such director’s earlier resignation or removal.

 

There is no arrangement or understanding between Ms. Uthayakumar or Mr. Fages and any other person pursuant to which each was elected as a director of the Company. There is no transaction, since the beginning of the Company’s last fiscal year, or any currently proposed transaction, in which the Company was or is to be a participant and the amount involved exceeds $120,000, and in which either Ms. Uthayakumar or Mr. Fages had or will have a direct or indirect material interest.  Ms. Uthayakumar and Mr. Fages will receive compensation pursuant to the Company’s standard arrangements for directors as described in its Proxy Statement for the 2019 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.

 

On July 30, 2019, the Company issued a press release announcing the changes to the composition of its Board of Directors. A copy of this press release is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this report.

 

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(d)              Exhibits

 

Exhibit No.		Description
99.1		Press release issued by Adesto Technologies Corporation on July 30, 2019 furnished herewith.

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

	ADESTO TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
Date: July 31, 2019	By:	/s/ Ron Shelton
		Name: Ron Shelton
		Title: Principal Accounting and Financial Officer

 

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