(1)
|
Title
of each class of securities to which transaction
applies:
|
(2)
|
Aggregate
number of securities to which transaction
applies:
|
(3)
|
Per
unit price or other underlying value of transaction computed pursuant
to
Exchange Act Rule 0-11 (set forth the amount on which the filing
fee is
calculated and state how it was
determined:
|
(4)
|
Proposed
maximum aggregate value of
transaction:
|
(5)
|
Total
fee paid:
|
(1)
|
Amount
previously paid: N/A
|
(2)
|
Form,
Schedule or Registration Statement No.:
N/A
|
(3)
|
Filing
Party: N/A
|
(4)
|
Date
Filed: N/A
|
(1)
|
To
ratify the selection of BDO Feinstein International AB as our independent
registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December
31,
2008; and
|
(2)
|
To
transact such other business as may properly come before the Annual
Meeting or any adjournment thereof.
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HISTORY
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WHERE
YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION
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1
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QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS ABOUT THE PROPOSALS
|
2
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BOARD
OF DIRECTORS, COMMITTEES AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
|
4
|
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REPORT
OF THE AUDIT COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
|
9
|
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EXECUTIVE
OFFICERS
|
10
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EXECUTIVE
COMPENSATION
|
10
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RELATED
PERSON TRANSACTIONS
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16
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ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION - SECTION 16(a) BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP REPORTING
COMPLIANCE
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16
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PROPOSAL
1 RATIFICATION OF SELECTION OF INDEPENDENT
AUDITORS
|
17
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PRINCIPAL
ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES
|
18
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PRE-APPROVAL
OF AUDIT AND NON-AUDIT SERVICES
|
19
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SECURITY
OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT
|
20
|
· |
To
be approved, Proposal No. 1 to ratify BDO Feinstein International
AB as
independent auditors of the Company for the fiscal year ending December
31, 2008 must receive a "For" vote from the majority of shares present
either in person or by proxy and entitled to
vote.
|
· |
You
may submit another properly completed proxy card with a later
date;
|
· |
You
may send a written notice that you are revoking your proxy to our
Secretary at 4000 Executive Parkway, Suite 200, San Ramon, California
94583; or
|
· |
You
may attend the Annual Meeting and vote in person. However, simply
attending the Annual Meeting will not, by itself, revoke your
proxy.
|
NAME
|
AGE
|
POSITION
|
||
Mikael
Hagman
|
40
|
Director
and Chief Executive Officer
|
||
John
Reardon
|
48
|
Director
|
||
Per
Bystedt
|
42
|
Director
|
||
Susan
Major
|
55
|
Director
|
· |
evaluates
the performance of and assesses the qualifications of the independent
registered public accounting firm;
|
· |
determines
and approves the engagement of the independent registered public
accounting firm;
|
· |
determines
whether to retain or terminate the existing independent registered
public
accounting firm or to appoint and engage a new independent registered
public accounting firm;
|
· |
reviews
and approves the retention of the independent registered public accounting
firm to perform any proposed permissible non-audit services;
|
· |
monitors
the rotation of partners of the independent registered public accounting
firm on the Company’s audit engagement team as required by law;
|
· |
confers
with management and the independent registered public accounting
firm
regarding the effectiveness of internal controls over financial reporting;
|
· |
establishes
procedures, as required under applicable law, for the receipt, retention
and treatment of complaints received by the Company regarding accounting,
internal accounting controls or auditing matters and the confidential
and
anonymous submission by employees of concerns regarding questionable
accounting or auditing matters;
|
· |
reviews
the financial statements to be included in the Company’s Annual Report on
Form 10-K; and
|
· |
discusses
with management and the independent registered public accounting
firm the
results of the annual audit and the results of the Company’s quarterly
financial statements.
|
· |
reviews
and approves corporate performance goals and objectives relevant
to the
compensation of the Company’s executive officers and other senior
management;
|
· |
reviews
and approves the compensation and other terms of employment of the
Company’s Chief Executive Officer;
|
· |
reviews
and approves the compensation and other terms of employment of the
other
executive officers; and
|
· |
administers
and reviews the Company’s stock option and purchase plans, pension and
profit sharing plans, stock bonus plans, deferred compensation plans
and
other similar programs.
|
· |
reviewing
and evaluating incumbent directors;
|
· |
recommending
candidates to the Board for election to the Board; and
|
· |
making
recommendations to the Board regarding the membership of the committees
of
the Board.
|
NAME
|
AGE
|
POSITION
|
||
David
W. Brunton
|
58
|
Vice
President, Finance, Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and
Treasurer
|
||
Thomas
Eriksson
|
38
|
Chief
Technical Officer
|
Name
and Principal Position
|
Year
|
Salary
($)
|
Bonus
($)
|
Stock
Awards
($)
|
Option
Awards
($)
|
Non-Equity
Incentive Plan Compensation
($)
|
Nonqualified
Deferred Compensation Earnings
($)
|
All
Other Compensation ($)
|
Total
($)
|
|||||||||
(b)
|
(a)
|
(c)
|
||||||||||||||||
Mikael
Hagman, (e) (f) President and Chief Executive Officer
|
2007
2006
|
$190,167
-
|
$73,680
-
|
-
-
|
$53,782
-
|
-
-
|
-
-
|
$23,464
-
|
$341,093
-
|
|||||||||
David
W. Brunton, Chief Financial Officer
|
2007
2006
|
$185,000
$140,362
|
$30,625
-
|
$22,750
$25,168
|
$86,968
$22,735
|
-
-
|
-
-
|
$1,632
$1,116
|
$326,975
$189,380
|
|||||||||
Thomas
Eriksson, (f) Chief Technical Officer
|
2007
2006
|
$179,604
$125,282
|
$38,237
-
|
-
-
|
$20,625
-
|
-
-
|
-
-
|
$12,446
-
|
$250,912
$125,282
|
|||||||||
Kenneth
Yamamoto, (d) Former Chief Executive Officer
|
2007
2006
|
$117,083
$137,784
|
$13,281
-
|
$28,938
$43,888
|
-
$90,938
|
-
-
|
$75,254
-
|
$403
$726
|
$234,959
$273,336
|
|||||||||
Leo
Fang, (d) Former Executive Vice President
|
2007
2006
|
$106,667
$137,810
|
$9,375
-
|
$25,253
$30,346
|
-
$22,735
|
-
-
|
$66,920
-
|
$157
$253
|
$208,372
$191,143
|
(a) |
Amounts
are calculated as of fiscal year end in accordance with the provisions
of
Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (“SFAS”) No. 123R “Share-based
Payment.” Please see Note14. “Stock Based Compensation” in the Notes to
the Consolidated Financial Statements as filed on Neonode Inc.’s annual
report Form 10K for the valuation assumptions made in the Black-Scholes
option pricing used to calculate fair value of the option
awards.
|
(b) |
Amounts
are the market value of common stock issued to Messrs. Brunton, Yamamoto
and Fang under the pre-merger SBE, Inc. stock in-lieu of cash payroll
plan
that was implemented in 2006 as a cash preservation
measure.
|
(c) |
Includes
$23,464 and $12,446 attributable in fiscal 2007 to Messrs. Hagman
and
Eriksson to payments to the Swedish defined contribution retirement
plan,
$1,632, $403 and $157 attributable in fiscal 2007 and $1,116, $7,261
and
$253 attributable in fiscal 2006 to Messrs. Brunton, Yamamoto and
Fang,
respectively, for premiums paid by the Company for group term life
insurance.
|
(d) |
Messrs.
Yamamoto and Fang terminated their employment at the culmination
for the
SBE, Inc and Neonode Inc. merger transaction on August 10,
2007.
|
(e) |
Mr.
Hagman became President and Chief Executive Officer effective March
2007.
|
(f) |
Messrs.
Hagman and Eriksson are citizens of Sweden and are employees in Sweden
and
all payments to them are in Swedish krona (SEK). The amounts in this
table
are displayed in U.S. Dollars (USD) and are converted from the SEK
to USD
using the average exchange rate for fiscal 2007 year of 6.793SEK
to the
USD.
|
OPTION
AWARDS
|
||||||||||||
Name
& Principal Position
|
Grant
Date
|
Number
of Securities Underlying Unexercised Options (#) Exercisable
|
Number
of Securities Underlying Unexercised Options(#) Unexercisable
|
Equity
Incentive Plan Awards: Number of Securities Underlying Unexercised
Unearned Options (#)
|
Option
Exercise price ($)
|
Option
Expiration Date
|
||||||
Mikael
Hagman,
|
1/18/2007
(2)
|
88,298
|
-
|
-
|
$
1.84
|
6/17/2008
|
||||||
President
& Chief
|
1/18/2007
|
88,298
|
-
|
-
|
$
2.12
|
1/17/2009
|
||||||
Executive
Office
|
6/1/2007
|
35,319
|
-
|
-
|
$
1.84
|
6/17/2008
|
||||||
|
8/9/2007
|
37,502
|
-
|
-
|
$
6.74
|
8/9/2012
|
||||||
|
8/9/2007
|
37,498
|
-
|
-
|
$
8.49
|
8/8/2012
|
||||||
1/2/2008
|
-
|
250,000
(3)
|
$
3.45
|
1/2/2015
|
||||||||
David
W. Brunton,
|
11/1/2001
|
14,000
|
-
|
-
|
$
4.90
|
11/1/2008
|
||||||
Chief
Financial Officer
|
10/22/2002
|
20,000
|
-
|
-
|
$
4.50
|
10/22/2009
|
||||||
4/12/2004
|
5,000
|
-
|
-
|
$22.25
|
4/12/2011
|
|||||||
3/31/2005
|
20,000
|
-
|
-
|
$14.75
|
8/8/2012
|
|||||||
3/21/2006
|
5,000
|
-
|
-
|
$
5.00
|
3/21/2013
|
|||||||
5/30/2007
|
15,000
|
-
|
-
|
$
2.33
|
5/30/2014
|
|||||||
8/10/2007
|
-
|
180,000
(1)
|
$
4.90
|
8/10/2014
|
||||||||
Thomas
Eriksson,
|
1/18/2007
(2)
|
97,127
|
-
|
-
|
$
1.84
|
6/17/2008
|
||||||
Chief
Technical Officer
|
1/18/2007
|
97,127
|
-
|
-
|
$
2.12
|
1/17/2009
|
||||||
|
6/1/2007
|
21,191
|
-
|
-
|
$
1.84
|
6/17/2008
|
(1) |
Stock
Option Grant vests 25% on first anniversary date of grant and monthly
thereafter for the next 36 months.
|
(2) |
On
March 19, 2008, the option expiration date was extended from April
17,
2008 until June 17, 2008.
|
(3) |
Stock
Option Grant vests 33% on first anniversary date of grant and monthly
thereafter for the next 24 months.
|
STOCK
AWARDS
|
||||||||
Name
& Principal Position
|
Number
of Shares or Units of Stock that have not Vested (#)
|
Market
Value of Shares of Stock or Units that have not vested ($)
|
Equity
Incentive Plan Awards: Number of Unearned Shares or other Rights
that have
not Vested (#)
|
Equity
Incentive Plan Awards: Market or Payout Value of Unearned Shares
of
Unearned Shares, Units or Other Rights that have not Vested
($)
|
||||
Mikael
Hagman, President & Chief Executive Office
|
n/a
|
-
|
n/a
|
-
|
||||
David
W. Brunton, Chief Financial Officer
|
n/a
|
-
|
n/a
|
-
|
||||
Thomas
Eriksson, Chief Technical Officer
|
n/a
|
-
|
n/a
|
-
|
(a) |
Salary
Continuation. Mr Hagman shall continue to receive an amount equal
to 12
(twelve) months of Base Salary. Such amount shall be paid in equal
monthly
installments over the six (6) months following Change in Control
Termination and shall be subject to all required tax
withholding.
|
(b) |
Salary
Continuation. Mr. Brunton shall continue to receive an amount equal
to six
(6) months of Base Salary. Such amount shall be paid in equal monthly
installments over the six (6) months following Change in Control
Termination and shall be subject to all required tax
withholding.
|
(c) |
Bonus
Payment. Within
fifteen (15) days following the last day of the fiscal quarter during
which Change in Control Termination occurs. Mr. Brunton shall receive
the
pro-rata share of any bonus to which he would have been entitled
had his
employment with the Company continued. The bonus amount paid will
be the
product of the bonus percentage of Base Salary derived per the his
bonus
plan multiplied by his Base Salary from the beginning of the Fiscal
Year
through the date of his Involuntary Termination Without Cause. Such
payment shall be subject to all required tax
withholding.
|
(i) |
Acceleration
of Option Vesting. Effective as of the date of Change in Control
Termination, Mr. Brunton shall be credited with full vesting under
all
options to purchase the Company’s Common Stock that he holds on such date.
|
Name
|
Fees
Earned or
Paid
in
Cash
($)
|
Stock
Awards
($)
|
Option
Awards
($)
|
Non-Equity
Incentive
Plan
Compensation
($)
|
Nonqualified
Deferred
Compensation
Earnings
|
All
Other
Compensation
($)
|
Total
($)
|
|||||||
(f)
|
(a)
|
|||||||||||||
Per
Bystedt
|
$
18,890
|
-
|
$11,004
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
$29,894
|
|||||||
Susan
Major
|
-
|
-
|
$29,205
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
$29,205
|
|||||||
John
Reardon
|
$
28,750
|
$
9,485
|
$27,591
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
$65,826
|
|||||||
Johan
Ihrfelt (d)
|
$
3,216
|
-
|
$
1,434
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
$
4,650
|
|||||||
Magnus
Goertz (b)(c)
|
$223,510
|
-
|
$28,379
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
$251,889
|
|||||||
Ronald
Ritchie (e)
|
$
43,125
|
$13,436
|
$
15,508
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
$
72,069
|
|||||||
Marion
Stuckey (e)
|
$
28,750
|
$
9,485
|
$
14,234
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
$
52,469
|
|||||||
John
D’Errico (e)
|
$
28,750
|
$
9,485
|
$
14,234
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
$
52,469
|
(a) |
Amounts
are calculated as of fiscal year end in accordance with the provisions
of
Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (“SFAS”) No. 123R “Share-based
Payment.” Please see Note14. “Stock Based Compensation” in the Notes to
the Consolidated Financial Statements as filed on Neonode Inc.’s annual
report Form 10K for the valuation assumptions made in the Black-Scholes
option pricing used to calculate fair value of the option
awards.
|
(b) |
Mr.
Goertz is a citizen of Sweden and is employed in Sweden and all payments
to him are in Swedish krona (SEK). The amounts in this table are
displayed
in U.S. Dollars (USD) and are converted from the SEK to USD using
the
fiscal 2007 average exchange rate of 6.793SEK to the USD. Mr. Goertz
is
employed on a full time basis as an engineer for the company and
is paid
salary and pension benefits that total approximately $200,000 per
year.
|
(c) |
Mr.
Goertz resigned as a member of the Board of Directors on October
9, 2007.
He remains an employee of the
company.
|
(d) |
Mr.
Ihrfelt resigned as a member of the Board of Directors on March 31,
2008
and is no longer affiliated with the company after that
date.
|
(e) |
Messrs.
Ritchie, Stuckey and D’Errico are former members of the SBE, Inc. Board of
Directors and all resigned concurrent with the culmination of the
merger
transaction on August 10, 2007.
|
(f) |
Messrs.
Reardon, Ritchie, Stuckey and D’Errico as former members of the SBE, Inc.
Board of Directors were paid their Board of Director fees with grants
of
common stock under the pre-merger SBE, Inc stock in-lieu of fee program.
The amounts reflect the fair market value of the stock granted to
each
director under this program.
|
OPTION
AWARDS
|
||||||||||||
Name
|
Grant
Date
|
Number
of Securities Underlying Unexercised Options (#) Exercisable
|
Number
of Securities Underlying Unexercised Options(#) Unexercisable
|
Equity
Incentive Plan Awards: Number of Securities Underlying Unexercised
Unearned Options (#)
|
Option
Exercise price ($)
|
Option
Expiration Date
|
||||||
Per
Bystedt
|
1/18/2007
(1)
|
44,149
|
-
|
-
|
$
1.84
|
6/17/2008
|
||||||
1/18/2007
|
44,149
|
-
|
-
|
$
2.12
|
1/17/2009
|
|||||||
|
6/1/2007
(1)
|
28,255
|
-
|
-
|
$
1.84
|
6/17/2008
|
||||||
|
1/2/2008
|
-
|
40,000
|
-
|
$
3.45
|
1/2/2015
|
||||||
Susan
Major
|
1/18/2007
|
176,595
|
-
|
-
|
$
1.42
|
1/17/2012
|
||||||
|
1/2/2008
|
-
|
40,000
|
-
|
$
3.45
|
1/2/2015
|
||||||
John
Reardon
|
3/17/2004
|
3,000
|
-
|
-
|
$
27.50
|
3/17/2011
|
||||||
4/1/2004
|
2,000
|
-
|
-
|
$23.30
|
4/1/2011
|
|||||||
4/1/2005
|
2,000
|
-
|
-
|
$13.95
|
4/1/2010
|
|||||||
4/1/2006
|
2,000
|
-
|
-
|
$
5.40
|
4/1/2011
|
|||||||
4/2/2007
|
2,000
|
-
|
-
|
$
4.00
|
4/2/2012
|
|||||||
5/3/2007
|
176,595
|
-
|
-
|
$
1.42
|
1/17/2012
|
|||||||
5/30/2007
|
4,500
|
-
|
-
|
$
2.33
|
5/30/2012
|
|||||||
|
1/2/2008
|
-
|
40,000
|
-
|
$
3.45
|
1/2/2015
|
||||||
Johan
Ihrfelt
|
1/18/2007
(1)
|
17,660
|
-
|
-
|
$
1.84
|
6/17/2008
|
||||||
Magnus
Goertz
|
1/18/2007
(1)
|
132,446
|
-
|
-
|
$
1.84
|
6/17/2008
|
||||||
1/18/2007
|
132,446
|
-
|
-
|
$
2.12
|
1/17/2009
|
|||||||
|
6/1/2007
(1)
|
31,787
|
-
|
-
|
$
1.84
|
6/17/2008
|
(1) |
On
March 19, 2008, the option expiration date was extended from April
17,
2008 until June 17, 2008.
|
FISCAL
YEAR ENDED
|
|||||||
December
31, 2007
|
December
31, 2006
|
||||||
Audit
Fees
|
$
|
476,060
|
$
|
261,724
|
|||
Tax
Fees (1)
|
18,150
|
$
|
—
|
||||
All
Audit Related Fees (2)
|
59,253
|
—
|
|||||
Total
Fees
|
$
|
553,463
|
$
|
261,724
|
(1) |
Tax
fees are for preparation of the annual state and federal tax returns
in
the United States.
|
(2) |
Include
fees for work related to the merger and the review and preparation
of
registration and proxy statements.
|
Beneficial
Owner
|
Beneficial
Ownership (1)
|
||||||
Beneficial
Owner
|
Number
of Shares of Common Stock
|
Percent
of Total(2)
|
|||||
AIGH
Investment Partners LLC
6006
Berkeley Avenue
Baltimore,
MD 21209 (5)
|
4,899,447
|
17.5
|
%
|
||||
Per
Bystedt (3)(4)
|
4,043,411
|
14.5
|
%
|
||||
Magnus
Goertz (3)(6)
|
2,101,754
|
7.5
|
%
|
||||
Thomas
Eriksson (3)(7)
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1,255,351
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4.5
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%
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Mikael
Hagman (3)(8)
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343,996
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1.2
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%
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David
W. Brunton (3)
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138,011
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0.5
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%
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John
Reardon (3)
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200,986
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0.7
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%
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Susan
Major (3)
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176,595
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0.6
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%
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All
executive officers and directors as a group (7 persons)
(3)(4)
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8,260,104
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29.5
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%
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(1) |
This
table is based upon information supplied by officers, directors and
principal stockholders. Unless otherwise indicated in the footnotes
to
this table and subject to community property laws where applicable,
we
believe that each of the stockholders named in this table has sole
voting
and investment power with respect to the shares indicated as beneficially
owned.
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(2) |
Applicable
percentages are based on 25,918,162 shares, the number of shares
outstanding on March 31, 2008 plus the stock options that officers
and
directors have the right to acquire within 60 days after the date
of this
table under outstanding stock options and the warrants issuable under
this
table.
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(3) |
Includes,
116,553, 296,680, 215,446, 211,914, 79,000, 192,095, and 176,595
shares
that Messrs. Bystedt, Goertz, Eriksson, Hagman, Brunton, Reardon,
and Ms.
Major, respectively, have the right to acquire within 60 days after
the
date of this table under outstanding stock
options.
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(4) |
Includes
2,987,384 shares and options or warrants to purchase an aggregate
of
715,728 shares held by Iwo Jima Sarl and 211,861 shares and 12,438
warrants issuable to Spray AB. Iwo Jima Sarl and Spray AB may be
deemed
affiliates of Mr. Bystedt.
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(5) |
Includes,
1,623,150 shares that AIGH Investment Partners LLC has the right
to
acquire under common stock warrant
agreements.
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(6) |
Includes
1,805,074 shares held by Athemis Limited, which may be deemed an
affiliate
of Mr. Goertz.
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(7) |
Includes
1,039,905 shares held by Wirelesstoys Sweden AB, which may be deemed
an
affiliate of Mr. Ericksson.
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(8) |
Includes,
19,026 shares that Mr. Hagman has the right to acquire under common
stock
warrant agreements.
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THE
BOARD OF DIRECTORS RECOMMENDS A VOTE “FOR” THE
PROPOSAL.
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PLEASE
SIGN, DATE AND RETURN PROMPTLY IN THE ENCLOSED ENVELOPE. PLEASE MARK
YOUR
VOTE IN BLUE OR BLACK INK AS SHOWN HERE x
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FOR
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AGAINST
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ABSTAIN
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1.
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To
ratify the selection of BDO Feinstein International AB as our independent
auditors for the 2008 fiscal year:
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IN
THEIR DISCRETION, THE PROXIES ARE AUTHORIZED TO VOTE UPON SUCH OTHER
BUSINESS AS MAY PROPERLY BE PRESENTED TO THE MEETING OR ANY ADJOURNMENTS,
POSTPONEMENTS, CONTINUATIONS OR RESCHEDULINGS THEREOF. The signer
hereby
revokes all proxies heretofore given by the signer to vote at the
Annual
Meeting of NEONODE INC. and any adjournments, postponements, continuations
or reschedulings thereof.
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To
change the address on your account, please check the box at right
and
indicate your new address in the address space above. Please note
that
changes to the registered name(s) on the account may not be submitted
via
this method.
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Signature of Stockholder
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Date:
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Signature of Stockholder
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Date:
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Note:
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Please
sign exactly as your name or names appear on this Proxy. When shares
are
held jointly, each holder should sign. When signing as executor,
administrator, attorney, trustee or guardian, please give full title
as
such. If the signer is a corporation, please sign full corporate
name by
duly authorized officer, giving full title as such. If signer is
a
partnership, please sign in partnership name by authorized
person.
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