UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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UNDER ARMOUR, INC.
(Name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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UNDER ARMOUR, INC.
NOTICE OF 2022 ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS
To Be Held May 11, 2022
Notice is hereby given that the Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Under Armour, Inc. will be held on Wednesday, May 11, 2022 at 10:00 a.m., Eastern Time, to be held online at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/UAA2022 to consider and vote on the following matters:
1. | To elect ten directors nominated by the Board of Directors to serve until the next Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until their respective successors are elected and qualified; |
2. | To approve, on an advisory basis, our executive compensation; and |
3. | To ratify the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the transition period from January 1, 2022 through March 31, 2022 and the fiscal year ending March 31, 2023. |
We will also transact any other business that may properly come before the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof.
Our Board of Directors recommends that you vote FOR the election of the ten nominees to the Board of Directors listed in the accompanying proxy statement, FOR the approval of our executive compensation and FOR the ratification of the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm.
Only holders of record of Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock as of the close of business on February 25, 2022 are entitled to notice of, or to vote at, the Annual Meeting and any adjournment or postponement thereof. Holders of Class C Common Stock have no voting power as to any items of business that may properly be brought before the Annual Meeting.
All stockholders are cordially invited to attend the Annual Meeting, which will be conducted online only via a live webcast due to continuing concerns regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. We believe that this virtual format prioritizes the health and well-being of our stockholders, directors and employees amid public health concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic. During the virtual meeting, holders of our Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock may ask questions and will have the opportunity to vote to the same extent as they would at an in-person meeting of stockholders. Holders of our Class C Common Stock may participate in the virtual Annual Meeting in a view-only format and will not be able to submit questions during the meeting or vote on any matter to be considered at the Annual Meeting. However, in advance of the meeting, holders of our Class C Common Stock may submit questions by contacting Investor Relations through the Under Armour website. We will respond to as many inquiries at the Annual Meeting as time allows.
If you plan to attend the Annual Meeting, you will need the 16-digit control number included in your Notice, on your proxy card or on the instructions that accompany your proxy materials. If you are a holder of Class C Common Stock, you may attend the Annual Meeting without a 16-digit control number by following the instructions in your Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials, on your proxy card or on the instructions that accompany your proxy materials. The Annual Meeting will begin promptly at 10:00 a.m., Eastern Time. Online check-in will begin at 9:45 a.m., Eastern Time, and you should allow ample time for the online check-in procedures.
Whether or not you intend to attend the virtual Annual Meeting, please vote your shares promptly by following the voting instructions you have received.
By Order of the Board of Directors |
John Stanton |
General Counsel and Secretary |
Baltimore, Maryland
March 24, 2022
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UNDER ARMOUR, INC.
PROXY STATEMENT
ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
This Proxy Statement is being provided to solicit proxies on behalf of the Board of Directors of Under Armour, Inc. for use at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders and any adjournment or postponement thereof. The Annual Meeting is to be held on Wednesday, May 11, 2022, at 10:00 a.m., Eastern Time, online at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/UAA2022. We expect to first send or give stockholders this Proxy Statement, together with our 2021 Annual Report to Stockholders, on March 31, 2022.
Our principal offices are located at 1020 Hull Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21230. In this Proxy Statement, we refer to Under Armour, Inc. as Under Armour, we, us, our and company.
Internet Availability of Proxy Materials
Pursuant to rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC), we are making our proxy materials available to our stockholders electronically over the Internet rather than mailing the proxy materials. Accordingly, we are sending a Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials to holders of our Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock. All stockholders will have the ability to access the proxy materials, including this Proxy Statement and our 2021 Annual Report to Stockholders, on the website referred to in the notice or to request a printed set of the proxy materials. Instructions on how to access the proxy materials over the Internet or to request a printed copy may be found on the notice. In addition, stockholders may request to receive proxy materials in printed form by mail or electronically by email on an ongoing basis.
The SEC rules require us to notify all stockholders, including those stockholders to whom we have mailed proxy materials, of the availability of our proxy materials over the Internet.
Important Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials
for the Stockholder Meeting to be held on May 11, 2022
Our Proxy Statement and 2021 Annual Report to Stockholders are available at
https://about.underarmour.com/investor-relations/news-events-presentations/#module-6
Who May Vote
Only holders of record of our Class A Common Stock, which we refer to as Class A Stock, and holders of record of our Class B Convertible Common Stock, which we refer to as Class B Stock, at the close of business on February 25, 2022, or the Record Date, will be entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the Annual Meeting. On the Record Date, 188,668,560 shares of Class A Stock and 34,450,000 shares of Class B Stock were issued and outstanding. Each share of Class A Stock entitles the holder to cast one vote on each matter to be considered at the Annual Meeting and each share of Class B Stock entitles the holder to cast ten votes on each matter to be considered at the Annual Meeting. Holders of Class A Stock and holders of Class B Stock will vote together as a single class on all matters.
Stockholders are not allowed to cumulate their votes in the election of the directors. Holders of our Class C Common Stock, which we refer to as Class C Stock, have no voting power as to any items of business that will be voted on at the Annual Meeting.
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What Constitutes a Quorum
Stockholders may not take action at a meeting unless there is a quorum present at the meeting. Holders of Class A Stock and Class B Stock entitled to cast a majority of all the votes entitled to be cast at the Annual Meeting, represented in person (virtually) or by proxy, constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at the Annual Meeting.
Vote Required
The election of each director requires a plurality of the votes cast at the Annual Meeting. The approval of our executive compensation and the ratification of the appointment of our independent registered public accounting firm each requires the affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast at the Annual Meeting.
Voting Process
Shares for which proxies are properly executed and returned will be voted at the Annual Meeting in accordance with the directions given or, in the absence of directions, will be voted FOR the election of the ten nominees to the Board of Directors named in this Proxy Statement, FOR the advisory approval of our executive compensation and FOR the ratification of the appointment of our independent registered public accounting firm. It is not expected that any other matters will be brought before the Annual Meeting. If, however, other matters are properly presented, the persons named as proxies in the proxy card will vote in accordance with their discretion with respect to such matters.
The manner in which your shares may be voted depends on how your shares are held. If you are the record holder of your shares, meaning you appear as the stockholder of your shares on the records of our stock transfer agent, you vote your shares directly through one of the methods described below. If you own shares in street name, meaning you are a beneficial owner with your shares held through a bank or brokerage firm, you instruct your bank or brokerage firm how to vote your shares through the methods described on the voting instruction form provided by your bank or brokerage firm.
How to Vote
Holders of our Class A Stock and Class B Stock as of the Record Date may vote their shares by one of the following methods.
Internet
To vote your shares by Internet, please visit the website listed on your Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials, or the enclosed proxy card or voting instruction form, and follow the on-screen instructions. You will need the control number included on your Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials, proxy card or voting instruction form. If you vote by Internet, you do not need to mail your proxy card or voting instruction form.
Telephone
If you received a paper proxy card or voting instruction form and would like to vote your shares by telephone, please follow the instructions on the proxy card or voting instruction form. If you vote by telephone, you do not need to mail your proxy card or voting instruction form.
If you received a paper proxy card or voting instruction form and would like to vote your shares by mail, please follow the instructions on the proxy card or voting instruction form. Please be sure to sign and date your proxy card. If you do not sign your proxy card, your votes cannot be counted. Mail your proxy card or voting instruction form in the pre-addressed, postage-paid envelope.
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In Person (Virtually)
You may also attend the Annual Meeting and vote in person, electronically. If you own your stock in street name and wish to vote your shares electronically at the Annual Meeting, you must obtain a legal proxy from the bank or brokerage firm that holds your shares. You should contact your bank or brokerage account representative to obtain a legal proxy. However, to ensure your shares are represented, we ask that you vote your shares by Internet, telephone or mail, even if you plan to attend the meeting.
Participation in the Annual Meeting
Due to continuing concerns regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and to assist in protecting the health and well-being of our stockholders, directors and employees, this years Annual Meeting will be in an online format. You can access the virtual annual meeting at the meeting time at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/UAA2022. The virtual meeting has been designed to provide the same rights to participate as you would have at an in-person meeting.
Holders of our Class A Stock, Class B Stock and Class C Stock may attend the virtual Annual Meeting. During the virtual meeting, holders of our Class A Stock and Class B Stock may ask questions and will have the opportunity to vote to the same extent as they would at an in-person meeting of stockholders. However, holders of our Class C Stock may participate in the virtual Annual Meeting in a view-only format and will not be able to submit questions during the meeting or vote on any matter to be considered at the Annual Meeting. However, in advance of the meeting, holders of our Class C Stock may submit questions by contacting Investor Relations through the Under Armour website. We will respond to as many inquiries at the Annual Meeting as time allows.
The Annual Meeting will begin promptly at 10:00 a.m., Eastern Time. Online check-in will begin at 9:45 a.m., Eastern Time, and you should allow ample time for the online check-in procedures. If you plan to attend the Annual Meeting, you will need the 16-digit control number included in your Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials, on your proxy card or on the instructions that accompany your proxy materials. If you are a holder of Class C Stock, you may attend the Annual Meeting without a 16-digit control number by following the instructions in your Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials, on your proxy card or on the instructions that accompany your proxy materials. If any difficulties are encountered while accessing the virtual meeting, contact the technical support number that will be posted on the virtual meeting log-in page. Technical support will be available beginning at the check-in time and will remain available until the meeting has ended.
Revocation
If you are the record holder of your shares, you may revoke or cancel a previously granted proxy at any time before the Annual Meeting by delivering to the Secretary of Under Armour at 1020 Hull Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21230, a written notice of revocation or a duly executed proxy bearing a later date, or by attending the Annual Meeting and voting in person electronically. Any stockholder owning shares in street name may change or revoke previously given voting instructions by contacting the bank or brokerage firm holding the shares or by obtaining a legal proxy from the bank or brokerage firm and voting in person electronically at the Annual Meeting. Your attendance at the meeting does not revoke your proxy. Your last vote, prior to or at the Annual Meeting, is the vote that will be counted.
Abstentions and Broker Non-Votes
Shares held by stockholders present at the Annual Meeting in person (virtually) or by proxy who do not vote on a matter and ballots or proxies marked abstain or withheld on a matter will be counted as present at the meeting for quorum purposes, but will not be considered votes cast on the matter.
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If your shares are held in street name through a bank or broker and you do not provide voting instructions before the Annual Meeting, your bank or broker may vote your shares under certain circumstances in accordance with the New York Stock Exchange rules governing banks and brokers. These circumstances include routine matters, such as the ratification of the appointment of our independent registered public accounting firm described in this Proxy Statement. Thus, if you do not vote your shares with respect to these matters, your bank or broker may vote your shares on your behalf or leave your shares unvoted.
The election of directors and the advisory approval of our executive compensation are not considered routine matters. Thus, if you do not vote your shares with respect to any of these matters, your bank or broker may not vote the shares, and your shares will be left unvoted on the matter.
Broker non-votes (which are shares represented by proxies, received from a bank or broker, that are not voted on a matter because the bank or broker did not receive voting instructions from the beneficial owner) will be treated the same as abstentions, which means they will be present at the Annual Meeting and counted toward the quorum, but they will not be counted as votes cast on the matter. Abstentions and broker non-votes will not have an effect on any of the proposals at this meeting because they will not be counted as votes cast.
Householding
The SEC permits us to send a single set of proxy materials to any household at which two or more stockholders reside, unless contrary instructions have been received, but only if we provide advance notice and follow certain procedures. This process, referred to as householding, reduces the volume of duplicate information and reduces printing and mailing expenses. We have not instituted householding for stockholders of record. Certain brokerage firms may have instituted householding for beneficial owners of our common stock held through brokerage firms. If your family has multiple accounts holding our shares, you may have already received a householding notice from your broker. Please contact your broker directly if you have any questions or require additional copies of the proxy materials. The broker will arrange for delivery of a separate copy of this Proxy Statement or our Annual Report promptly upon your written or oral request. You may decide at any time to revoke your decision to household and begin receiving multiple copies.
Solicitation of Proxies
We pay the cost of soliciting proxies for the Annual Meeting. We solicit by mail and arrangements are made with brokerage houses and other custodians, nominees and fiduciaries to send proxy materials to beneficial owners. Upon request, we will reimburse them for their reasonable expenses. In addition, our directors, officers and employees may solicit proxies, either personally or by telephone, facsimile or written or electronic mail. Stockholders are requested to return their proxies without delay.
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SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF MANAGEMENT AND CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS OF SHARES
The following table sets forth certain information known to us regarding the beneficial ownership of shares of our common stock by:
| each current director and nominee for director; |
| our named executive officers included in the 2021 Summary Compensation Table; |
| all of our directors and executive officers as a group; and |
| each person, or group of affiliated persons, known to us to beneficially own more than 5% of any class of our outstanding shares of Class A Stock. |
Except as otherwise set forth in the footnotes below, the address of each beneficial owner is c/o Under Armour, Inc., 1020 Hull Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21230, and, to our knowledge, each person has sole voting and investment power over the shares shown as beneficially owned. Unless otherwise noted, the information is stated as of February 25, 2022, the Record Date for the Annual Meeting. No shares in this table held by our directors or executive officers are pledged as security. The table below does not include restricted stock unit, or RSU, awards with shares issuable more than 60 days from February 25, 2022, stock options exercisable more than 60 days from February 25, 2022, or any RSUs or stock options with performance based vesting conditions that have not yet been satisfied. With respect to our 5% stockholders, the table below does not present their ownership of our Class C Stock due to its non-voting status.
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Beneficially Owned Shares(1) |
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Beneficially Owned Shares(1) |
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Kevin A. Plank (4)(5) |
34,742,229 | 15.6% | 33,857,645 | 13.2% | 64.7% | |||||||||||||||
Patrik Frisk (6) |
14,000 | * | 639,714 | * | * | |||||||||||||||
Douglas E. Coltharp (7)(8) |
98,914 | * | 99,279 | * | * | |||||||||||||||
Jerri L. DeVard (7) |
1,200 | * | 0 | * | * | |||||||||||||||
Mohamed A. El-Erian (7) |
11,650 | * | 3,675 | * | * | |||||||||||||||
David W. Gibbs (7) |
0 | * | 0 | * | * | |||||||||||||||
Karen W. Katz (7)(9) |
2,000 | * | 2,014 | * | * | |||||||||||||||
Westley Moore (7) |
0 | * | 0 | * | * | |||||||||||||||
Eric T. Olson (7) |
0 | * | 0 | * | * | |||||||||||||||
Harvey L. Sanders (7) |
174,000 | * | 175,235 | * | * | |||||||||||||||
David Bergman (10) |
26,835 | * | 189,640 | * | * | |||||||||||||||
Colin Browne (11) |
0 | * | 180,803 | * | * | |||||||||||||||
Stephanie Pugliese (12) |
0 | * | 92,504 | * | * | |||||||||||||||
All Executive Officers and Directors as a Group (7)(13) |
35,111,627 | 15.6% | 35,590,192 | 13.9 | % | 64.7% | ||||||||||||||
5% Stockholders |
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BlackRock, Inc. (14) |
11,176,582 | 5.0% | 2.1% | |||||||||||||||||
The Vanguard Group (15) |
19,894,614 | 8.9% | 3.7% |
* | Less than 1% of the shares. |
(1) | Includes any stock options exercisable within 60 days of February 25, 2022 or shares issuable within 60 days of February 25, 2022 upon the vesting of RSUs. |
(2) | The percentage of outstanding figures take into account the 34,450,000 shares of outstanding Class B Stock held, directly or indirectly, by Mr. Plank. These shares of Class B Stock may be |
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converted under certain circumstances, including at the option of Mr. Plank, into shares of Class A Stock. If the shares of Class B Stock are not counted, the percentage of outstanding Class A Stock owned is as follows: Mr. Plank, less than one percent; all executive officers and directors as a group, less than one percent; BlackRock, Inc., 5.9%; and The Vanguard Group, 10.5%. |
(3) | Each share of Class A Stock has one vote, and each share of Class B Stock has ten votes. The percentage of voting power reflects the combined effects of both Class A Stock and Class B Stock. Our Class C Stock is non-voting. |
(4) | Includes 181,608 shares of Class A Stock beneficially owned by Mr. Plank, and 110,621 stock options for Class A Stock that are currently exercisable. Mr. Planks shares of Class A Stock are held by a limited liability company controlled by Mr. Plank and he holds sole voting and investment power over these shares. In addition, Mr. Plank beneficially owns 34,450,000 shares of Class B Stock indirectly, of which 29,510,624 shares of Class B Stock are held by two limited liability companies controlled by Mr. Plank and he has sole voting and investment power over these shares. With respect to the remaining 4,939,376 of these shares of Class B Stock, 1,803,400 shares are held by two limited liability companies of which Mr. Plank is a member. Mr. Planks wife has been appointed as the manager of these two limited liability companies, and has voting control and investment power over the shares held by these companies. The remaining 3,135,976 shares of Class B Stock are held by an irrevocable trust, of which Mr. Plank is the grantor and has the ability to replace the trustee. Thomas J. Sippel, a former director of the company, has been appointed trustee of the trust and has voting control over the shares held by the trust and shares investment power with Mr. Plank. Because the 34,450,000 shares of Class B Stock beneficially owned by Mr. Plank, which are all the shares of Class B Stock outstanding, are convertible into shares of Class A Stock on a one-for-one basis under certain circumstances, including at the option of Mr. Plank, he is also deemed to be the beneficial owner of 34,450,000 shares of Class A Stock into which the Class B Stock may be converted. |
(5) | Includes 1,258,775 stock options for Class C Stock that are currently exercisable. In addition, Mr. Plank beneficially owns an additional 32,598,870 shares of Class C Stock, and as detailed in Note (4) above, Mr. Planks wife has investment power over 1,765,845 of these shares, and Mr. Plank shares investment power with the trustee of the trust described in Note (4) over 3,107,880 of these shares. Does not include RSUs for 294,482 shares of Class C Stock. |
(6) | Includes 14,000 shares of Class A Stock and 14,000 shares of Class C Stock held in trust by Mr. Frisk. Does not include RSUs for 981,292 shares of Class C Stock. |
(7) | Does not include deferred stock units, or DSUs, for shares of either Class A Stock or Class C Stock, or RSUs for shares of Class C Stock held by non-management directors. The RSUs will be converted into DSUs for Class C Stock on a one-for-one basis upon vesting. The DSUs will be settled in shares of our Class A Stock or Class C Stock, as applicable, on a one-for-one basis six months after the director leaves the Board, or sooner upon death or disability. As of the Record Date, the non-management directors held the following amounts of DSUs and RSUs: |
Name |
Class A DSUs |
Class C DSUs |
Class C RSUs |
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Douglas E. Coltharp |
54,820 | 133,432 | 8,161 | |||||||||
Jerri L. DeVard |
0 | 68,155 | 8,161 | |||||||||
Mohamed A. El-Erian |
0 | 53,709 | 8,161 | |||||||||
David W. Gibbs |
0 | 1,653 | 10,494 | |||||||||
Karen W. Katz |
5,121 | 79,179 | 8,161 | |||||||||
Westley Moore |
0 | 12,882 | 14,602 | |||||||||
Eric T. Olson |
13,758 | 87,428 | 8,161 | |||||||||
Harvey L. Sanders |
61,426 | 138,470 | 8,161 |
(8) | Includes 22,914 shares of Class A Stock owned by an irrevocable trust of which Mr. Coltharps wife is the trustee and his two children are the beneficiaries (the Coltharp Trust), 75,000 shares owned by a spousal lifetime access trust of which Mr. Coltharp is the trustee and spousal beneficiary (the Coltharp 2021 Trust) and 1,000 shares held by two Uniform Transfer to Minors |
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Act accounts and 22,741 shares of Class C Stock owned by the Coltharp Trust, 75,532 shares owned by the Coltharp 2021 Trust and 1,006 shares held by two Uniform Transfer to Minors Act accounts. |
(9) | Shares of Class A Stock and Class C Stock are held in trust. |
(10) | Does not include RSUs for 199,615 shares of Class C Stock. |
(11) | Does not include RSUs for 208,327 shares of Class C Stock. |
(12) | Does not include RSUs for 170,085 shares of Class C Stock. |
(13) | Includes shares shown as beneficially owned by the directors and executive officers as a group (17 persons). Does not include RSUs and DSUs for 3,087,587 shares of Class C Stock. Does not include DSUs for 135,125 shares of Class A Stock. |
(14) | According to their report on Schedule 13G, as of December 31, 2021, BlackRock, Inc., or BlackRock, and certain affiliates of BlackRock, were deemed to beneficially own in the aggregate 11,176,582 shares of our Class A Stock. According to the Schedule 13G, the reporting persons had sole power to vote 10,230,047 shares and no power to vote 946,535 shares, and sole power to dispose of all of these shares. The principal business address of BlackRock is 55 East 52nd Street, New York, New York 10055. |
(15) | According to their report on Schedule 13G, as of December 31, 2021, The Vanguard Group, or Vanguard, and certain affiliates of Vanguard, were deemed to beneficially own in the aggregate 19,894,614 shares of our Class A Stock. According to the Schedule 13G, the reporting persons had shared power to vote 241,930 shares and no power to vote 19,652,684 shares and sole power to dispose of 19,233,321 shares and shared power to dispose of 661,293 shares. The principal business address of Vanguard is 100 Vanguard Boulevard, Malvern, Pennsylvania 19355. |
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(PROPOSAL 1)
Ten directors will be elected at the 2022 Annual Meeting to hold office until their successors are elected and qualified. There are ten nominees for election, each of whom is currently a member of our Board of Directors. Unless otherwise specified, the proxies received will be voted for the election of the following persons:
Name | Position at Under Armour, Inc. | Independent | ||
Kevin A. Plank
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Executive Chairman and Brand Chief
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No
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Douglas E. Coltharp
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Director
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✓
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Jerri L. DeVard
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Director
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✓
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Mohamed A. El-Erian
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Lead Director
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✓
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Patrik Frisk
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President and Chief Executive Officer
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No
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David W. Gibbs
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Director
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✓
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Karen W. Katz
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Director
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✓
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Westley Moore
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Director
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✓
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Eric T. Olson
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Director
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✓
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Harvey L. Sanders
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Director |
✓ |
We view the effectiveness of our Board of Directors through an individual and collective lens. We endeavor to have a Board that represents a range of experiences, skills and attributes and embodies principles of diversity, including gender, race and ethnicity. We believe each director nominee contributes to this goal, as described below in the biographies included in Nominees for Election at the Annual Meeting. For additional information about how we identify and evaluate nominees for director, see Corporate Governance and Related MattersIdentifying and Evaluating Director Candidates below.
Snapshot of Director Nominees
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Skills and Experiences of Director Nominees
Our Corporate Governance and Sustainability Committee and Board consider the following key experiences, skills and attributes when recommending a candidate to serve on our Board:
✓ | Executive Leadership and Strategy Experience: Directors who have served or currently serve as CEOs or in other senior leadership roles at other organizations are uniquely positioned to advise, support and oversee our management team to achieve strategic priorities and long-term objectives and contribute practical insight into business strategy. |
✓ | Retail Industry Experience: Directors who have experience in the retail industry contribute a deep understanding of our fundamental business needs and industry risks. |
✓ | Technology, Digital and eCommerce Experience: Directors with experience in digital and technology, including managing cybersecurity risk and developing and overseeing eCommerce operations and strategy or loyalty programs, provide critical perspective regarding our digital business strategies, technology resources and infrastructure and essential risk management functions. |
✓ | Marketing, Branding and Media Experience: Our brands strength and reputation and our connection with consumers is fundamental to our business and our strategy. Directors with consumer or brand marketing and media experience provide critical insights to our Board. |
✓ | Financial Expertise: We place high importance on financial discipline, accurate financial reporting and robust financial controls and compliance, and value directors with an understanding of finance and financial reporting processes, as well as experience with mergers, acquisitions and strategic business transactions. We seek to have multiple directors who qualify as audit committee financial experts. |
✓ | International Experience: Directors with exposure to and experience in global markets and/or diverse organizational structures, business environments and cultural perspectives (whether through the private or public sector) offer unique insight into our increasingly complex and expanding global operations. |
✓ | Public Company Board Experience: Directors who have served or currently serve on other public company boards provide essential perspective with respect to board operations and dynamics, prioritizing stockholder interests and corporate governance best practices, including related to executive compensation, risk management and oversight of strategic, operational and compliance-related matters. |
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We believe that the ten director nominees together provide diverse and relevant experiences to comprise a Board that is well-positioned to provide effective oversight of our company, as illustrated in the following table. A check mark indicates a specific area of focus or expertise on which the Board particularly relies. Not having a check mark does not mean the director does not possess that qualification or skill. Our directors biographies describe each directors background and relevant experience in more detail below.
Skills & Experiences |
Plank | Coltharp | DeVard | El-Erian | Frisk | Gibbs | Katz | Moore | Olson | Sanders | Total | |||||||||||
Executive Leadership and Strategy Experience |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 10 | |||||||||||
Retail Industry Experience |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 | |||||||||||||||
Technology, Digital and eCommerce Experience |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 | |||||||||||||||
Marketing, Branding and Media Experience |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 8 | |||||||||||||
Financial Expertise |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
International Experience |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 | |||||||||||||||
Public Company Board Experience |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 8 |
Nominees for Election at the Annual Meeting
Director since our founding Age: 49
Founder, Executive Chairman and Brand Chief |
Kevin A. Plank Executive Chairman and Brand Chief of Under Armour, Inc.
Mr. Plank became Under Armours Executive Chairman and Brand Chief in January 2020, after serving as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors from 1996 to 2019, and President from 1996 to July 2008 and August 2010 to July 2017. Mr. Plank also serves on the Board of Directors of the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame, Inc., and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Maryland College Park Foundation.
As our founder, Brand Chief and controlling stockholder since our inception in 1996 and as the driving force behind our innovative products and our brand, Mr. Plank is uniquely qualified to serve on and lead our Board given his experience, knowledge of our industry and business and strategic vision and insight. |
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Director since
December 2004 Age: 60
Independent
Board Committees:
Audit (Chair)
Finance and Capital Planning (Chair)
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Douglas E. Coltharp Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Encompass Health Corporation
Since May 2010, Mr. Coltharp has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Encompass Health Corporation (formerly HealthSouth Corporation). Before that, Mr. Coltharp served as a partner at Arlington Capital Advisors and Arlington Investment Partners, a Birmingham, Alabama based financial advisory and private equity business from May 2007 to April 2010 and as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Saks Incorporated and its predecessor organization from 1996 to May 2007.
Mr. Coltharps qualifications to serve on our Board include his financial expertise and past executive leadership experience in the consumer retail sector, including 11 years as Chief Financial Officer of Saks Incorporated, a leading publicly traded consumer retailer, and his more recent executive leadership experience as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of a large publicly traded company, Encompass Health Corporation. | |
Director since
Age: 63
Independent
Board Committees:
Corporate Governance and Sustainability
Human Capital and Compensation |
Jerri L. DeVard Former Executive Vice President, Chief Customer Officer of Office Depot, Inc.
Ms. DeVard served as Executive Vice President, Chief Customer Officer of Office Depot, Inc. from January 2018 to March 2020, leading their eCommerce and Customer Service functions and Marketing and Communications and as Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer from September 2017 to December 2017. Before that, Ms. DeVard served as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of The ADT Corporation, a leading provider of home and business security services, from March 2014 through May 2016. From July 2012 to March 2014, she was Principal of DeVard Marketing Group, a firm specializing in advertising, branding, communications and traditional/digital/multicultural marketing strategies. Before that, she served as Executive Vice President of Marketing for Nokia. Ms. DeVard served in a number of senior marketing roles throughout her career, including as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Senior Vice President, Marketing Communications and Brand Management of Verizon Communications, Inc., Chief Marketing Officer of the e-Consumer business at Citibank N.A. and other senior marketing positions at Revlon Inc., Harrahs Entertainment, the NFLs Minnesota Vikings and the Pillsbury Company. In 2021, Ms. DeVard founded the Black Executive CMO Alliance (BECA), an alliance designed to champion corporate diversity and help build the next generation of C-suite marketing executives. Ms. DeVard currently serves on the Board of Directors of Cars.com and is a member of its Compensation and Nominating and Governance Committees and on the Board of Directors of Root, Inc. and is a member of its Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and the chair of its Strategy Committee. Ms. DeVard was nominated to stand for election to the Board of Directors of Dow Inc. at its upcoming annual meeting of stockholders to be held on April 14, 2022. Ms. DeVard previously served on the Board of Directors of Focus Impact Acquisition Corp. from October 2021 to January 2022 and on the Board of Directors of ServiceMaster Global Holdings, Inc. from July 2016 to January 2018.
Ms. DeVards qualifications to serve on our Board include her broad-based and significant experience in marketing and branding and digital and eCommerce, as well as her executive leadership experience with a number of large global brands.
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Director since October 2018 Age: 63
Independent
Lead Director
Board Committees:
Audit
Finance and Capital Planning |
Mohamed A. El-Erian Former Chief Executive Officer and Co-Chief Investment Officer of PIMCO
Dr. El-Erian served as CEO and Co-Chief Investment Officer of PIMCO, one of the worlds premier investment management firms, from December 2007 to March 2014. He currently serves as Chief Economic Advisor of Allianz, the corporate parent of PIMCO, a role he has held since March 2014, and is the President of Queens College, Cambridge. Dr. El-Erian joined PIMCO in 1999 as a senior member of the portfolio management and investment strategy group. In February 2006, he became president and CEO of Harvard Management Company, the entity responsible for managing the universitys endowment, before returning to PIMCO in 2007 to serve as co-CEO and co-CIO. From December 2012 to January 2017, he was chair of the U.S. Presidents Global Economic Development Council. Previously, he was a managing director at Salomon Smith Barney/Citigroup in London and worked at the International Monetary Fund for 15 years, rising to the position of Deputy Director. He is a board member of the National Bureau of Economic Research serving on its Executive Committee, and chairs the Microsoft Investment Advisory Committee. Dr. El-Erian also serves as non-executive director of Barclays plc and is also a columnist for Bloomberg and a contributing editor at the Financial Times.
Dr. El-Erians qualifications to serve on our Board include his financial expertise, his significant international, macroeconomic and government experience and his executive leadership experience gained through his past roles, including as CEO and Co-Chief Investment Officer of PIMCO.
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Director since January 2020 Age: 59
President and Chief Executive Officer |
Patrik Frisk President and Chief Executive Officer of Under Armour, Inc.
Mr. Frisk was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Under Armour and a member of its Board of Directors in January 2020, after serving as President and Chief Operating Officer since July 2017 when he joined the company. Mr. Frisk has more than 30 years of experience in the apparel, footwear and retail industry. Before joining Under Armour, he was Chief Executive Officer of The ALDO Group, a global footwear and accessories company. Before that, he spent more than a decade with VF Corporation where he held numerous leadership positions including Coalition President of Outdoor Americas (The North Face® and Timberland®), President of the Timberland® brand, President of Outdoor & Action Sports (EMEA), and Vice President and General Manager of The North Face®. Before joining VF Corporation, Mr. Frisk ran his own retail business in Scandinavia and held senior positions with Peak Performance and W.L. Gore & Associates.
Mr. Frisks qualifications to serve on our Board include his extensive leadership experience in the apparel, footwear and retail industry and serving as our current CEO.
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Director since September 2021 Age: 58
Independent
Board Committees:
Audit
Human Capital and Compensation |
David W. Gibbs Chief Executive Officer of Yum! Brands, Inc.
Mr. Gibbs serves as Chief Executive Officer of Yum! Brands, Inc. (YUM), a position he has held since January 2020, and has served as a member of YUMs board of directors since November 2019. Before that, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer from August 2019 to December 2019, as President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer from January 2019 to August 2019 and as President and Chief Financial Officer from May 2016 to December 2018. Before these positions, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Pizza Hut Division from January 2015 to April 2016. From January 2014 to December 2014, Mr. Gibbs served as President of Pizza Hut U.S. Before these positions, Mr. Gibbs served as President and Chief Financial Officer of Yum! Restaurants International, Inc. (YRI) from May 2012 through December 2013. Mr. Gibbs served as Chief Financial Officer of YRI from January 2011 to April 2012. He served as Chief Financial Officer of Pizza Hut U.S. from September 2005 to December 2010. From March 2016 to January 2020, Mr. Gibbs served on the Board of Directors of Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc.
Mr. Gibbs qualifications to serve on our Board include his financial expertise, international experience and his executive leadership experience with Yum! Brands, including his current role as Chief Executive Officer and his prior roles as President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer.
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Director since October 2014 Age: 65
Independent
Board Committees:
Corporate Governance and Sustainability
Finance and Capital Planning |
Karen W. Katz Former President and Chief Executive Officer of Neiman Marcus Group LTD LLC
Ms. Katz served as President and CEO of Neiman Marcus Group LTD LLC, one of the worlds leading luxury and fashion retailers, from 2010 to February 2018. Having joined Neiman Marcus in 1985, Ms. Katz served in key executive and leadership roles in the companys merchant, stores and eCommerce organizations as Executive Vice PresidentStores, a member of the Office of the Chairman of Neiman Marcus Group, and President, Neiman Marcus Online, and President and CEO, Neiman Marcus Stores. Ms. Katz serves on the Board of Directors of Humana Inc. and is a member of its Nominating, Governance & Sustainability and Technology Committees and on the Board of Directors of The RealReal, Inc. and is a member of its Audit Committee. Ms. Katz previously served on the Board of Directors of Casper Sleep from April 2019 to January 2022.
Ms. Katzs qualifications to serve on our Board include her digital and eCommerce experience and her executive leadership experience in the consumer retail sector with Neiman Marcus Group, including as President and Chief Executive Officer.
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Director since October 2020 Age: 43
Independent
Board Committees:
Corporate Governance and Sustainability |
Westley Moore Former Chief Executive Officer of the Robin Hood Foundation
Mr. Moore served as Chief Executive Officer of the Robin Hood Foundation, one of New York Citys largest poverty-fighting organizations, from April 2017 to May 2021. Before that, Mr. Moore founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of BridgeEdU, an innovative technology platform addressing the college completion and job placement crisis from July 2014 to February 2017 and served as its Chairman from June 2017 to June 2019, when it was acquired. Mr. Moore worked as an investment banker with Citigroup and served as a White House Fellow to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice from 2006 to 2007. Mr. Moore is a decorated army combat veteran and a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author. Mr. Moore currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Focus Impact Acquisition Corp.; on the Board of Directors of Longview Acquisition Corp. and is a member of its Audit, Compensation and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees; and on the Board of Directors of IAC/INTERACTIVECORP. Mr. Moore previously served on the Board of Directors of Green Thumb Industries Inc. from July 2018 to March 2022.
Mr. Moores qualifications to serve on our Board include his wide-ranging experiences in digital and technology, government, entrepreneurship and executive leadership, including as the Chief Executive Officer of the Robin Hood Foundation and the founder and former Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of BridgeEdU.
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Director since July 2012 Age: 70
Independent
Board Committees:
Corporate Governance and Sustainability (Chair) |
Eric T. Olson Admiral U.S. Navy (Retired) and former Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command
Admiral Olson retired from the United States Navy in 2011 as an Admiral after 38 years of military service. He served in special operations units throughout his career, during which he earned a Masters Degree in National Security Affairs and was awarded several decorations for leadership and valor including the Defense Distinguished Service Medal and the Silver Star. Admiral Olsons career culminated as the head of the United States Special Operations Command from July 2007 to August 2011, where he was responsible for the mission readiness of all Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps special operations forces. In this capacity, he led over 60,000 people and managed an annual budget in excess of ten billion dollars. Admiral Olson served as Chief Executive Officer of HANS Premium Water, a clean water solution for homes, from June 2019 to May 2020. He has served as President and Managing Member of ETO Group, LLC since September 2011, supporting a wide range of private and public sector organizations. Admiral Olson serves on the Board of Directors of Iridium Communications, Inc. and is a member of its Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and on the Board of Directors of Sarcos Technology & Robotics Corp and is a member of its Audit Committee, Compensation Committee and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Admiral Olson also serves as Chairman Emeritus of the non-profit Special Operations Warrior Foundation.
Admiral Olsons qualifications to serve on our Board include his experience in technology and his significant government and leadership experience as an Admiral in the United States Navy, including his management of a large and complex organization as head of the United States Special Operations Command.
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Director since November 2004 Age: 72
Independent
Board Committees:
Human Capital and Compensation (Chair) |
Harvey L. Sanders Former Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Nautica Enterprises, Inc.
Mr. Sanders is the former Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chief Executive Officer and President of Nautica Enterprises, Inc. He served as Chairman from 1993 to 2003 and as Chief Executive Officer and President from 1977 to 2003, until VF Corporation acquired Nautica Enterprises, Inc. in 2003. Mr. Sanders currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the Boomer Esiason Foundation for Cystic Fibrosis and the enCourageKids Foundation and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Maryland College Park Foundation.
Mr. Sanders qualifications to serve on our Board include his executive leadership experience in the consumer retail sector, including over 25 years as President and Chief Executive Officer and 10 years as Chairman of the Board of Nautica Enterprises, Inc., a former leading publicly traded apparel brand and retailer. |
The election of each director requires a plurality of the votes cast at the Annual Meeting.
The Board of Directors recommends that you vote FOR the election of the ten nominees for director.
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND RELATED MATTERS
Corporate Governance Highlights
Our Board of Directors has a long-standing commitment to sound and effective corporate governance, which begins with and fully reflects our Purpose and Values, set forth at the beginning of this Proxy Statement. Our strong corporate governance practices, including those highlighted below, are codified in our Corporate Governance Guidelines and other key governance documents, and demonstrate the commitment of our Board of Directors to enabling an effective structure to support the successful oversight of our business and long-term objectives:
✓ | Separate Chairman and CEO |
✓ | Lead independent director |
✓ | Majority independent Board |
✓ | Fully independent Board committees |
✓ | Regular executive sessions of non-management directors |
✓ | Risk oversight |
✓ | Full access to management and internal and external auditors |
✓ | Board and committees have authority to engage independent advisors as they deem appropriate |
✓ | Board oversight of succession planning for the CEO and other senior management |
✓ | Annual Board and committee self-evaluation |
Our governing documents provide our Board of Directors discretion to combine or separate the positions of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer as it may deem appropriate in light of prevailing circumstances. Currently, Kevin Plank serves as our Executive Chairman and Brand Chief, and Patrik Frisk serves as our President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board. We believe that the current separation of the roles of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer is appropriate given our companys strategic and operational priorities. This structure allows the Chief Executive Officer to focus on our companys business, operations and strategy, while continuing to leverage the Chairmans experience, perspective and vision.
To further strengthen our corporate governance structure and provide independent oversight of our company, on an annual basis our non-management directors elect an independent director to serve as Lead Director. Dr. El-Erian has been elected to serve as our Lead Director. He acts as a liaison between our Boards non-management directors and Mr. Plank, Mr. Frisk and the other members of our management team, chairs regular executive sessions of the Board without Mr. Plank and Mr. Frisk present, and performs other functions as requested by the non-management directors.
Our Board of Directors currently consists of ten directors, eight (80%) of which are independent non-management directors. The Board has determined that the following eight directors, each of which is standing for election at our 2022 Annual Meeting, are independent under the corporate governance
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listing standards of the New York Stock Exchange, or NYSE: Douglas E. Coltharp, Jerri L. DeVard, Mohamed A. El-Erian, David W. Gibbs, Karen W. Katz, Westley Moore, Eric T. Olson and Harvey L. Sanders. Mr. Plank and Mr. Frisk are not independent because they are our Executive Chairman and Brand Chief and President and Chief Executive Officer, respectively.
Our charter includes additional factors for the Board to consider when determining whether a director will be independent under the NYSE standards. Specifically, the Board must consider whether any independent directors have any material financial or service relationship with Mr. Plank or any of his family members. The Board has considered these factors and determined that none of the independent directors have any such relationships. A copy of our charter that includes these requirements is available through our website at https://about.underarmour.com/investor-relations/governance, under Investors-Corporate Governance.
Our Board meets regularly throughout the year. During 2021, there were six meetings of the Board and several committee meetings as noted in the table below. In 2021, all directors attended at least 75% of the aggregate meetings of the Board and the committees of which they were members during that period. In accordance with our Corporate Governance Guidelines, our non-management directors also meet in executive sessions without management at each regularly scheduled Board meeting.
Our Board has the following four standing committees: an Audit Committee, a Human Capital and Compensation Committee, a Corporate Governance and Sustainability Committee and a Finance and Capital Planning Committee. The table below provides current membership and meeting information for 2021 for each of these committees.
Name | Audit Committee | Human Capital and Compensation Committee |
Corporate Governance and Sustainability Committee |
Finance and Capital Planning Committee | ||||
Douglas E. Coltharp
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C
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C
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Jerri L. DeVard
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✓
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✓
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Mohamed A. El-Erian
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✓
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✓
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David W. Gibbs(1)
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✓
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✓
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Karen W. Katz
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✓
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✓
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Westley Moore
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✓
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Eric T. Olson
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C
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Harvey L. Sanders
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C
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Total Meetings in 2021 |
8 | 8 | 5 | 5 |
✓ = Committee Member
C = Committee Chair
(1) | Mr. Gibbs was appointed to our Board on September 1, 2021 and became a member of the Audit Committee and the Human Capital and Compensation Committee effective October 1, 2021, replacing Ms. Katz and Mr. Moore, respectively. |
The functions performed by these standing committees are summarized below and are set forth in more detail in their charters. The complete text of the charters for each standing committee can be found on our website at https://about.underarmour.com/investor-relations/governance, under
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Investors-Corporate Governance. The Board has determined that each member of the Audit, Human Capital and Compensation and Corporate Governance and Sustainability Committees is independent as required under NYSE listing standards and our charter. Each member of the Finance and Capital Planning Committee is also independent.
Audit Committee
The Audit Committee assists the Board of Directors with oversight of matters relating to accounting, internal control, auditing, financial reporting, risk and legal and regulatory compliance. The committee oversees the audit and other services provided by our independent registered public accounting firm, and is directly responsible for the appointment, independence, qualifications, compensation and oversight of the independent registered public accounting firm, which reports directly to the committee. The committee also oversees the companys internal audit function and the chief audit executive, who reports directly to the committee. The Audit Committee Report for 2021 is included in this Proxy Statement under Audit Committee Report.
The Board has determined that all of the committee members are independent, financially literate and qualify as audit committee financial experts under SEC rules and NYSE listing standards.
Human Capital and Compensation Committee
The Human Capital and Compensation Committee approves the compensation of our Chief Executive Officer, or CEO, and our other executive officers, administers our executive benefit plans, including the granting of awards under our equity incentive plans, and advises the Board on director compensation. In February 2021, the Board expanded the role and responsibilities of the Compensation Committee, renamed the Human Capital and Compensation Committee, to include primary oversight of our companys key human capital management strategies and programs, including relating to diversity, equity and inclusion. Throughout 2021, the Human Capital and Compensation Committee received briefings on and discussed a variety of human capital management topics, including strategies and metrics related to diversity, equity and inclusion, employee engagement survey and topics related to COVID-19.
Our CEO, Executive Chairman and Brand Chief and other senior executives evaluate the performance of our executive officers and make recommendations to the Human Capital and Compensation Committee concerning their compensation. The committee considers these evaluations and recommendations, and its evaluation of the Executive Chairman and Brand Chief and the CEO in determining the compensation of our Executive Chairman and Brand Chief, CEO and our other executive officers.
The Human Capital and Compensation Committee is also primarily responsible for reviewing and assessing risks arising from our compensation policies and practices. In February 2022, the committee conducted, with the assistance of management, a risk assessment of our compensation policies and practices, which included a review of our material compensation programs, the structure and nature of these programs, the short-term and long-term performance incentive targets used in these programs and how they relate to our business plans and creating stockholder value, corporate governance policies with respect to our compensation programs, including our stock ownership guidelines, and other aspects of our compensation programs. Based on this review and assessment, the committee concluded that the risks related to our compensation policies and practices are not reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on our company.
Pursuant to its charter, the Human Capital and Compensation Committee has the authority to obtain advice and assistance from advisors, including compensation consultants. In 2021, the committee engaged the services of an independent compensation consultant, Willis Towers Watson, or WTW, to provide executive compensation consulting services to the committee. This independent consultant reports directly to the committee and the committee retains sole authority to retain and
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terminate the consulting relationship. In carrying out its responsibilities, the independent consultant collaborates with management to obtain data, provide background on compensation programs and practices, and clarify pertinent information. The committee obtained from the independent consultant competitive market data on compensation for executives to assess generally the competitiveness of our executive compensation. The competitive market data was based on a peer group and WTWs published industry survey data. The committee generally has not relied on the independent consultant to determine or recommend the amount or form of executive compensation.
Additional information concerning the processes and procedures for considering and determining executive officer compensation is included in the Compensation Discussion and Analysis section of this Proxy Statement. The Human Capital and Compensation Committee Report for 2021 is included under the Human Capital and Compensation Committee Report section of this Proxy Statement.
A description of the compensation program for our non-management directors, including updates to the program for our upcoming fiscal year, is included below under the Compensation of Directors section of this Proxy Statement.
Corporate Governance and Sustainability Committee
The Corporate Governance and Sustainability Committee identifies individuals qualified to become members of our Board of Directors, recommends candidates for election or reelection to our Board, oversees the evaluation of our Board and advises our Board regarding committee composition and structure and other corporate governance matters, including reevaluating our Corporate Governance Guidelines on an annual basis. The Corporate Governance and Sustainability Committee also oversees our companys significant strategies, programs, policies and practices relating to sustainability (including environmental and human rights issues and impacts) and corporate responsibility.
Finance and Capital Planning Committee
The Finance and Capital Planning Committee assists our Board in overseeing our companys financial and capital investment policies, planning and activities, including matters relating to our capital structure and liquidity, hedging and foreign currency transactions, use of cash, acquisitions and divestitures and capital projects.
Stockholders Meeting Attendance
Directors are encouraged to attend annual meetings of stockholders, but we have no specific policy requiring directors attendance at such meetings. All of our directors who were directors at that time attended our 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
Identifying and Evaluating Director Candidates
The Corporate Governance and Sustainability Committee recommends to the Board candidates to fill vacancies or for election or reelection to the Board. The Board then appoints new Board members to fill vacancies or nominates candidates each year for election or reelection by stockholders. The committee does not have a specific written policy or process regarding the nominations of directors, nor does it maintain minimum standards for director nominees other than as set forth in the committees charter as described below.
The Corporate Governance and Sustainability Committees charter requires the committee to establish criteria for selecting new directors, which reflects at a minimum a candidates strength of character, judgment, business experience, specific areas of expertise, factors relating to the
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composition of the Board, including its size and structure, and principles of diversity, including gender, race and ethnicity. The committee also considers the statutory requirements applicable to the composition of the Board and its committees, including the NYSEs independence requirements. The committee considers each candidates experiences, skills and attributes relative to what skills and experiences can best contribute to our Boards effective operation, particularly in light of our companys evolving needs and long-term strategy. We believe the nominees for election to the Board contribute a wide range of experiences, skills and attributes to comprise a Board that is well-positioned to provide effective oversight of our company, as illustrated above in each directors biography set forth in Election of DirectorsNominees for Election at the Annual Meeting and the charts included in Election of DirectorsOverview of Director Nominees.
The Board has not established term limits for directors because of the concern that term limits may deprive the company and its stockholders of the contribution of directors who have developed valuable insights into the company and its operations over time. The tenure of our non-management directors ranges from less than one to seventeen years, with an average tenure of 7.8 years. We have added one new independent director in four of the last five years. We believe the tenure of our Board members provides an appropriate balance of expertise, experience, continuity and perspective that serves the best interests of our stockholders. Our Corporate Governance Guidelines do provide that a director is expected not to stand for reelection after the age of 75. For additional information regarding the age and tenure of the ten director nominees for election at the Annual Meeting, see Election of Directors.
The Corporate Governance and Sustainability Committee does not have a formal policy with respect to considering diversity, including gender, race and ethnicity, in identifying director nominees. Consistent with the committees charter, when identifying director nominees, the committee considers general principles of diversity, and does so in the broadest sense, considering diversity in terms of business leadership, experience, industry background and geography, as well as gender, race and ethnicity. However, the committee and the Board believe that considering gender, racial and ethnic diversity is consistent with creating a Board that best serves our companys needs and the interests of our stockholders, and they are important factors considered when identifying individuals for Board membership. The committee strives for directors who represent a mix of backgrounds and experiences that will enhance the quality of the Boards deliberations and oversight of our business, and we hope to continue to attract directors with a broader range of backgrounds and experiences. For additional information regarding the diversity of the ten director nominees for election at the Annual Meeting, see Election of DirectorsOverview of Director Nominees.
The Corporate Governance and Sustainability Committee periodically considers criteria for identifying possible new director candidates as needed, in consultation with the Chairman of the Board and other Board members and management, including the CEO, and works with management and other Board members in recruiting new candidates. Candidates identified through this process are considered by the full committee for possible recommendation to the Board. From time to time, the committee uses the services of a third-party search firm to assist it in identifying and screening candidates. Mr. Gibbs was elected to the Board in September 2021. Mr. Plank, our Executive Chairman and Brand Chief and largest stockholder, recommended Mr. Gibbs to our Corporate Governance and Sustainability Committee for consideration. Mr. Gibbs was subsequently vetted by a third-party search firm, after which he was unanimously recommended by the Corporate Governance and Sustainability Committee for nomination.
In addition, the Corporate Governance and Sustainability Committee will consider director candidates suggested by stockholders. Any stockholder who wishes to recommend a director candidate for consideration by the committee may do so by submitting the candidates name and qualifications to the committees chairman. See Communications with Directors above for how to
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communicate with the chairman of the committee. Our Bylaws include requirements for direct nominations by a stockholder of persons for election to our Board. These requirements are described under Stockholder Proposals at the end of this Proxy Statement.
Role of Board in Risk Oversight
Our Board of Directors is responsible for overseeing our management teams overall approach to risk management. Our Board of Directors regularly reviews our financial and strategic plans and objectives, including the risks that may affect the achievement of these plans and objectives, and receives regular reports from our Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, General Counsel and other key executive officers regarding various enterprise risk matters. In accordance with our Corporate Governance Guidelines, our non-management directors also meet at least once each year in executive session with our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer to review succession planning for our Chief Executive Officer and other senior executive positions.
In addition, our Board of Directors has delegated to each Board committee primary responsibility to oversee the management of risks that fall within their respective areas of responsibility, as described further below. In performing this function, each Board committee has full access to management, as well as the ability to engage independent outside advisors. At each Board meeting, the chairperson of each Board committee reports on the applicable committees activities, including risk management, which provides an opportunity to discuss significant risks with the full Board.
| Audit Committee: Under its charter, the Audit Committees responsibilities include inquiring of management and our independent registered public accounting firm about significant financial risks or exposures, the companys processes and policies for risk assessment and the steps management has taken to mitigate these risks to the company. The committee receives periodic reports from management on our enterprise risk management program and our risk mitigation efforts. The committee also oversees our legal and regulatory compliance programs and our internal audit function, as well as cybersecurity risks, as described in more detail below. |
| Human Capital and Compensation Committee: The Human Capital and Compensation Committee has the responsibility to review the risks of our compensation policies and practices, including the review of our annual compensation risk assessment. The committee also oversees risks related to our companys key human capital management strategies and programs, including relating to diversity, equity and inclusion. |
| Corporate Governance and Sustainability Committee: The Corporate Governance and Sustainability Committee oversees risks relating to sustainability, including environmental and human rights issues and impacts. |
| Finance and Capital Planning Committee: The Finance and Capital Planning Committee oversees certain financial matters and risks relating to our capital structure and liquidity, hedging and foreign currency transactions, acquisitions and divestitures and significant capital projects. |
Cybersecurity Risk Management
Cybersecurity is a critical component of risk management at Under Armour. Our Board of Directors has delegated primary responsibility to oversee the management of cybersecurity risks to the Audit Committee. The committee receives regular reports regarding our cybersecurity risks, with at least one comprehensive briefing by senior management annually and periodic updates as appropriate. Our global cyber security team, led by our Chief Information Security Officer, coordinates an annual external network penetration test, as well as external security audits of certain systems as appropriate.
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We require that all employees with access to our systems complete an annual cybersecurity and data privacy training and regularly conduct live training events with various business teams to educate our employees on business critical cybersecurity risks. In addition, as part of our Payment Card Industry compliance, we require all of our retail store employees to complete annual training on protecting payment devices and credit card information. Our training program also includes multiple phishing awareness campaigns throughout the year for all employees with system access. To further drive preparedness and awareness, we conduct an annual tabletop exercise with our executive team focused on cybersecurity risks and business continuity. We regularly evaluate our privacy notices, policies and procedures surrounding our handling and control of personal data and the systems we have in place to help protect us from cybersecurity or personal data incidents or breaches. We also maintain an information security insurance policy, which insures against liability for data incidents or breaches and other technology related exposures.
Environmental, Social and Governance Oversight
We are a purpose-led, values-based organization. Our Purpose We Empower Those Who Strive for More articulates why Under Armour exists. Our Values, which are listed at the beginning of this Proxy Statement, capture the beliefs and behaviors that shape our culture and define how we operate as a company and global citizen. Our Purpose and Values, including Act Sustainably and Stand for Equality, steer the ambitions we set as an organization, the questions we ask to guide our strategy and planning, the decisions we make for our culture and brand and the actions we take, including with respect to environmental and social issues and how we engage in related governance.
Sustainability
Our Board of Directors has delegated to our Corporate Governance and Sustainability Committee oversight of our significant sustainability strategies, programs, policies and practices. The committee receives regular updates from our Chief Sustainability Officer on these matters, and reviews and approves significant sustainability and corporate responsibility policies and reports.
Our corporate strategy is based on responsible business practices, including a commitment to sustainability and human rights and addressing related opportunities and risks. Our sustainability strategies and goals are reviewed and approved by our President and Chief Executive Officer, our Executive Leadership Team and our Sustainability Leadership Council, composed of our Chief Sustainability Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Product Officer and General Counsel. Our Sustainability team, led by our Chief Sustainability Officer, is responsible for the implementation and day-to-day management of our sustainability program, which addresses environmental (including climate change) and human rights issues and impacts and leads engagement regarding related due diligence and business integration. In 2021, we created an internal Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Task Force to ensure holistic oversight, consideration, analysis and progress of sustainability across our company, and to further support ownership and accountability of sustainability at Under Armour. The ESG Task Force consists of leaders from an array of cross-functional teams, including Enterprise Risk Management, and meets regularly to discuss and collaborate on key ESG issues and initiatives, such as those related to the environment, social and labor, community impact and diversity, equity and inclusion.
We encourage you to learn more about our sustainability initiatives by reviewing our website at https://about.underarmour.com/community/sustainability.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion starts with our Board of Directors and its ongoing commitment to considering principles of diversity, including gender, race and ethnicity, in
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identifying new director candidates, as described in Identifying and Evaluating Director Candidates above. In early 2021, our Board delegated to our Human Capital and Compensation Committee oversight of our key human capital management strategies and programs, including with respect to diversity, equity and inclusion. The committee regularly reviews our progress towards achieving our diversity, equity and inclusion goals.
Our Purpose challenges us continually to protect and evolve our culture. Our Values reflect our foundational belief that having an engaged, diverse and committed workforce enhances our culture and drives our business success, ultimately helping us deliver the most innovative products that make athletes better. We have set measurable goals for improving diversity amongst our team, including a commitment to increase the number of historically underrepresented employees throughout our leadership levels by 2023. These goals are publicly outlined at https://about.underarmour.com/community/diversity-equity-inclusion, where we also publish our representation statistics annually. We are also committed to increasing representation of women in our businesss critical areas, particularly in leadership, commercial and technical roles globally. Our annual incentive plan for all employees, including our executives as described below in Executive CompensationCompensation Discussion and AnalysisComponents of Our 2021 Compensation Program, incorporates performance measures to further our diversity, equity and inclusion goals.
Availability of Corporate Governance Information
For additional information on our corporate governance, including Board committee charters, our Corporate Governance Guidelines and our code of business conduct and ethics, visit our investor relations website at https://about.underarmour.com/investor-relations/governance, under Investors Corporate Governance.
Our Board of Directors has adopted stock ownership guidelines to align the financial interests of the companys executives and non-management directors with the interests of our stockholders. The guidelines currently provide that executive officers should own company stock with a value at least equal to six times the annual base salary for the Chief Executive Officer, three times annual base salary for Executive Vice Presidents and one times annual base salary for all other executive officers, in each case based on the average closing price of our stock for the prior calendar year. Our Board of Directors amended the guidelines in May 2021 to provide that non-management directors should own company stock with a value at least equal to five (previously three) times the amount of the annual retainer paid to directors. Executive officers are expected to achieve the stock ownership levels under these guidelines within five years of their hire or promotion to executive officer and non-management directors within five (previously three) years of joining our Board. The companys stock ownership guidelines can be found on our website at https://about.underarmour.com/investor-relations/governance, under Investors-Corporate Governance.
All executive officers and non-management directors are in compliance with the guidelines as of the last measuring date, or are new to their roles within the last few years and are not yet required to have achieved the applicable stock ownership levels. We anticipate such executive officers and non-management directors will be in compliance with the guidelines within the required time frame.
If stockholders or other interested parties wish to communicate with non-management directors, they should write to Under Armour, Inc., Attention: Corporate Secretary, 1020 Hull Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21230. Further information concerning contacting our Board is available through our investor
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relations website at https://about.underarmour.com/investor-relations/governance, under Investors-Corporate Governance.
Indemnification of Directors in Derivative Actions
Under the Maryland General Corporation Law (the MGCL), we are required to report to stockholders in this Proxy Statement certain information regarding the indemnification or advancement of expenses to members of our Board. As disclosed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year-ended December 31, 2021, certain of our directors and officers have been named as defendants in certain derivative actions brought against the company (the derivative actions). Under our Bylaws and the MGCL, our directors and officers may be entitled to indemnification and advancement of legal expenses in certain circumstances in connection with these derivative actions. As the legal representation of our directors other than Mr. Plank and Mr. Frisk is currently combined with the legal representation of our company, we have not advanced or reimbursed expenses of any of our directors other than Mr. Plank and Mr. Frisk to date. During 2021, we advanced approximately $65,722 and $51,544 of legal expenses for Mr. Plank and Mr. Frisk, respectively.
Retainers
The compensation arrangement for non-management directors during 2021 was as follows:
Annual Retainer for each Director |
$ | 75,000 | ||
Annual Retainer for Committee Chairs |
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Audit Committee |
$ | 25,000 | ||
Human Capital and Compensation Committee |
$ | 22,500 | ||
Corporate Governance and Sustainability Committee |
$ | 20,000 | ||
Finance and Capital Planning Committee |
$ | 20,000 | ||
Annual Retainer for Committee Members |
$ | 10,000 | ||
Annual Retainer for Lead Director |
$ | 75,000 |
The cash retainers are payable in quarterly installments and directors have the option to defer the cash retainers into deferred stock units pursuant to the Non-Employee Directors Deferred Stock Unit Plan. Beginning with the second quarter of 2016, we began issuing deferred stock units for shares of our Class C Stock rather than our Class A Stock. Deferred stock units will be settled in shares of our Class A Stock or Class C Stock (as applicable) on a one-for-one basis six months after the director leaves the Board, or sooner upon death or disability. During 2021, we did not pay separate fees for attendance at any Board or standing committee meetings.
Equity Awards
Non-management directors also receive the following equity awards:
| Upon initial election to the Board, an award of restricted stock units for shares of Class C Stock valued (on the grant date) at $100,000 with the units vesting in three equal annual installments; and |
| An annual award of restricted stock units for shares of Class C Stock valued (on the grant date) at $150,000 following each Annual Meeting of Stockholders, with the units vesting in full at the following years Annual Meeting of Stockholders. |
The restricted stock units vest in full upon the directors death or disability or upon a change in control of Under Armour. The restricted stock units are forfeited if the director leaves the Board for any
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other reason prior to the scheduled vesting term. Upon vesting of the restricted stock units, the restricted stock units are converted into deferred stock units with the shares delivered six months after the director leaves the Board, or sooner upon death or disability.
The table below sets forth information concerning the compensation of our non-management directors for 2021.
Director Compensation for 2021
Name |
Fees Earned or Paid in Cash ($)(1) |
Stock Awards ($)(2)(3) |
Total ($) | |||||||||
George W. Bodenheimer(4) |
34,942 | 0 | 34,942 | |||||||||
Douglas E. Coltharp |
120,000 | 150,000 | 270,000 | |||||||||
Jerri L. DeVard |
95,000 | 150,000 | 245,000 | |||||||||
Mohamed A. El-Erian |
170,000 | 150,000 | 320,000 | |||||||||
David W. Gibbs(5) |
29,864 | 212,500 | 242,364 | |||||||||
Karen W. Katz(5) |
95,000 | 150,000 | 245,000 | |||||||||
Westley Moore(4) |
88,846 | 150,000 | 238,846 | |||||||||
Eric T. Olson |
95,000 | 150,000 | 245,000 | |||||||||
Harvey L. Sanders |
97,500 | 150,000 | 247,500 |
(1) | Non-management directors may elect to defer cash retainers into deferred stock units pursuant to the Non-Employee Directors Deferred Stock Unit Plan as described above. The table below sets forth the amount of cash deferred and the number of deferred stock units of Class C Stock received for those directors who made this election. |
Name |
2021 Cash Deferred ($) | Deferred Stock Units (#) | ||||||
George W. Bodenheimer(4) |
0 | 0 | ||||||
Douglas E. Coltharp |
120,000 | 6,559 | ||||||
Jerri L. DeVard |
0 | 0 | ||||||
Mohamed A. El-Erian |
95,000 | 5,193 | ||||||
David W. Gibbs(5) |
29,864 | 1,653 | ||||||
Karen K. Katz(5) |
95,000 | 5,193 | ||||||
Westley Moore(4) |
0 | 0 | ||||||
Eric T. Olson |
95,000 | 5,193 | ||||||
Harvey L. Sanders |
97,500 | 5,329 |
(2) | The amount in this column reflects the aggregate grant date fair value in accordance with applicable accounting guidance of the Class C Stock awards granted in 2021. Each non-management director, except for Mr. Gibbs and Mr. Moore, held restricted stock units for 8,161 shares of Class C Stock as of December 31, 2021. As of December 31, 2021, Mr. Gibbs held restricted stock units for 10,494 shares of Class C Stock, which includes restricted stock units awarded when he was appointed to the Board in September 2021. Mr. Moore held restricted stock units for 14,602 shares of Class C Stock, which includes restricted stock units awarded when he was appointed to the Board in October 2020. |
(3) | We have disclosed the assumptions made in the valuation of the stock awards in Stock-Based Compensation under Note 14 to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021. |
(4) | Mr. Bodenheimer served on our Board of Directors through our 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders on May 13, 2021. As previously disclosed, Mr. Bodenheimer did not stand for re-election at that meeting. Shares underlying Mr. Bodenheimers deferred stock units were delivered to him six months after his departure from our Board, in accordance with their terms. From January 1, 2021 through May 13, 2021, Mr. Bodenheimer served as a member of the Human Capital and Compensation and Corporate Governance and Sustainability Committees. |
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Following Mr. Bodenheimers departure from our Board, Mr. Moore was appointed as a member of the Human Capital and Compensation Committee and served on the committee from May 13, 2021 through September 30, 2021. |
(5) | Mr. Gibbs was appointed to our Board on September 1, 2021, and became a member of the Audit Committee (replacing Ms. Katz) and the Human Capital and Compensation Committee (replacing Mr. Moore) effective October 1, 2021. Effective October 1, 2021, Ms. Katz was appointed as a member of the Corporate Governance and Sustainability Committee. |
Update to Director Compensation for Fiscal Year 2023
As previously disclosed, our Board of Directors approved a change in our fiscal year end from December 31 to March 31, effective for the fiscal year beginning April 1, 2022. Following a three month-transition period (January 1, 2022 March 31, 2022), our fiscal year 2023 will run from April 1, 2022 through March 31, 2023. Consequently, there will be no fiscal year 2022. To account for our change in fiscal year end, the Human Capital and Compensation Committee recommended, and the Board of Directors approved, amendments to the companys Non-Employee Director Compensation Plan, effective January 1, 2022, to align the plan year with our new fiscal year. Under the amended plan, to compensate the non-management directors for the transition period, during the fifteen months from January 1, 2022 through March 31, 2023, non-employee directors will receive 125% of the regular annual retainer, lead director retainer, committee chair fees and committee member fees, as applicable, each of which will continue to be paid in quarterly installments in arrears. In addition, following the 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, each non-management director will receive annual award of restricted stock units for shares of Class C Stock valued (on the grant date) at $187,500, with the units vesting in full at the following years Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
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Compensation Discussion and Analysis
The following is a discussion and analysis of our compensation policies and decisions regarding the 2021 compensation for our executive officers named in the compensation tables in this Proxy Statement.
During fiscal year 2021, we continued to navigate through a challenging operating environment, while executing against our multi-year transformation initiatives. As the year began, significant uncertainty remained regarding the potential impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business, including evolving purchasing behavior and consumer demand and the ongoing risk of resurgences of the pandemic in key markets. Amid this uncertainty, we remained focused on expanding brand awareness and engagement with our consumers, driving premium brand-right sales growth and continuing our focus on operating efficiency and improved profitability. Net revenue in 2021 grew 27% as compared to 2020 (or 8% as compared to 2019 (prior to the pandemic)) to reach $5.7 billion. Income from operations reached $486 million, inclusive of the ongoing impacts of our 2020 restructuring plan.
Our executive compensation programs in 2021 were designed to require our executives to deliver results exceeding our external financial guidance and in-line with the annual operating plan we established in early 2021. Our 2021 annual cash incentive awards emphasized adjusted operating income and net revenue growth, as well as continued focus on our ongoing diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Our long-term equity incentive awards ensured the appropriate alignment of our executives with the long-term interests of our stockholders. Our ability to drive adjusted operating income and net revenue results that far exceeded our expectations at the beginning of the year, and our ongoing commitment and execution against our diversity, equity and inclusion targets, resulted in the achievement of annual cash incentive awards nearing the maximum level of performance.
Executive Compensation Program Changes for Fiscal Year 2021
In 2021, our named executive officers continued to successfully lead and manage our business through an unpredictable environment. While we reverted to pre-pandemic executive compensation practices in certain elements of our program, the ongoing uncertainty of the impacts of COVID-19 on our business continued to influence the design of our 2021 executive compensation program. Specifically:
| Base Salaries: During 2020 in response to the pandemic, executive officers agreed to temporary base salary reductions for a six-month period. There were no base salary reductions during 2021. |
| Annual Cash Incentive Awards: For our annual cash incentive awards, management recommended, and the Human Capital and Compensation Committee approved the following in 2021: |
| Re-establishing the opportunity for a full target award amount (as compared to reductions to target levels by 50% of historical amounts in 2020). |
| Re-establishing our historical practice of threshold, target and maximum levels of performance (as compared to only threshold and target levels in 2020). |
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| Re-establishing the use of adjusted operating income and net revenue as financial targets (as compared to the 2020 operational targets, which focused on capital preservation and the achievement of specified strategic business objectives). |
| Maintaining two diversity, equity and inclusion metrics to provide increased incentives to advance our efforts of improving the diversity, equity and inclusion of our organization. |
| Annual Equity Award Mix and Value: Historically, the mix of annual equity awards granted to our executives has been 50% time based and 50% performance based. In 2020, annual equity awards were granted with 100% time based restricted stock units, with no stretch opportunity. In early 2021, given the continued impact of COVID-19 on our ability to reliably forecast our sales and profitability and the ongoing uncertainty on our business and our industry, management recommended, and the Human Capital and Compensation Committee approved, maintaining 100% time based annual equity awards for 2021 with no stretch opportunity. Total grant date values were returned to historical pre-pandemic levels, subject to certain adjustments described below (as compared to reduced grant date values in 2020). For our upcoming fiscal year, the committee has approved the use of 50% time based and 50% performance based for the annual equity award program. |
2021 Performance and Compensation Highlights
For 2021, a substantial portion of the annual compensation potential for our executive officers was tied to the performance of our company, primarily through:
| our annual cash incentive plan, with awards earned based primarily on our financial performance in 2021; and |
| our annual equity award program, which were in the form of time based restricted stock unit awards, where the value ultimately realized by our executives depends on our long-term stock price performance. |
Our adjusted operating income reached $529 million ($486 million on a GAAP basis), and our net revenue reached $5.7 billion, in each case well above the maximum levels of performance set forth under our 2021 annual cash incentive plan (the maximum adjusted operating income and revenue targets were set at $210 million and $5.1 billion, respectively).
Adjusted operating income amounts presented in this Proxy Statement generally refer to our GAAP operating income, adjusted for certain specified items considered when determining executive compensation. For purposes of determining executive compensation, our annual cash incentive plan specified certain adjustments that should be considered when evaluating performance against the targets, which would have the effect of further increasing adjusted operating income. These adjustments included items such as the impact of certain goodwill impairment charges, the impact of restructuring and other related charges, litigation related expense, foreign exchange losses and charges related to the write-down of our accounts receivable asset due to customer bankruptcies. For a reconciliation of adjusted operating income as set forth in this Proxy Statement to the nearest GAAP measure, see Appendix A: Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures.
Advisory Vote to Approve Executive Compensation
At our 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, we held an advisory vote to approve executive compensation, commonly referred to as say on pay. The Human Capital and Compensation Committee values the opinions expressed by stockholders in these votes. While these votes are advisory and non-binding, the Human Capital and Compensation Committee and the Board review the voting results and seek to determine the cause or causes of any significant negative voting result.
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Voting results provide little detail by themselves, and we may consult directly with stockholders to better understand issues and concerns not previously presented.
Our stockholders approved our say on pay proposal at our 2020 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, with approximately 81% of the votes cast voting to approve our executive compensation, as compared to approximately 98% in the prior year. As discussed above, in early 2021 as we designed our executive compensation program, the ongoing uncertainty around the impact of COVID-19 on our business and performance significantly influenced key elements of our program, particularly the decision to continue to provide 100% time based annual equity awards rather than our historical practice of a mix of time based and performance based awards. The committee considered voting results and feedback received from stockholders in past years when evaluating the design of the 2021 program. For our upcoming fiscal year executive compensation program, the Human Capital and Compensation Committee has approved a mix of 50% performance based equity awards and 50% time based equity awards. The committee will continue to consider results from the annual say on pay advisory vote, including the results from the upcoming 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and other stockholder input, when reviewing executive compensation programs, principles and policies.
Executive Compensation Features
We believe our executive compensation programs incorporate best practices that seek to drive business performance and align our executives with stockholder interests:
What We Do | What We Dont Do | |||||
✓ Pay for performance by tying the majority of executive compensation to pre-established, quantifiable performance goals or our stock price
✓ Double trigger provisions for all equity awards
✓ Balance of short and long-term performance metrics
✓ Clawback provisions in our annual cash incentive plan and long-term incentive plan
✓ Independent executive compensation consultant
✓ Stock ownership guidelines for executive officers
✓ Conduct annual stockholder say on pay advisory vote |
× Employment agreements (unless required by local law)
× Pension or supplemental retirement plan
× Guaranteed salary increases for executive officers
× Contributions to the deferred compensation plan for any executive officer in 2021
× Inclusion of long-term incentive awards in severance benefit calculations
× Permit hedging of Under Armour shares (with no director or officer having any shares pledged as security in 2021)
× Allow recycling back into our equity plan of shares used for taxes or option exercises
× Provide excessive benefits and perquisites |
Objectives and Elements of our Compensation Program
The overall objectives of our compensation program for our executive officers are to:
| Attract and retain highly qualified executives committed to our brand and our purpose; |
| Reward performance and motivate our executives to build and grow our business profitably; |
| Align the interests of our executives with the interests of our stockholders; and |
| Provide competitive pay based on peer group and market data. |
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During 2021, the critical elements of our executive compensation program that are designed to help achieve these objectives are as follows:
Compensation Element |
Purpose |
Key Characteristics | ||||||||||
FIXED | Base Salary | Compensate fairly and competitively to help us attract and retain highly qualified executives | Determined primarily by the level of responsibility and experience while also considering competitive market data | |||||||||
AT RISK | Annual Cash Incentive Awards | Reward executives for the achievement of near-term financial and strategic objectives and individual performance | Target cash incentive amount set as a percentage of base salary
Actual payout based on performance against pre-established financial and diversity, equity and inclusion targets and an individual performance factor | |||||||||
Equity Awards | Directly link the interests of executives with stockholders, promote retention and reward strong performance to create long-term stockholder value | Stock-based incentive compensation vesting in four equal annual installments; value directly tied to our stock price |
We offer limited benefits and perquisites to our executives and do not offer pension or other retirement plans, other than a 401(k) plan that is offered to our employees generally and a deferred compensation plan pursuant to which executives may defer certain compensation; however, we did not make any company contributions to this plan in 2021 for any executive officers. See Benefits and Perquisites below. Our annual equity awards include provisions allowing the acceleration of all or a portion of unvested amounts upon retirement for employees that meet certain criteria based on age and years of service. None of our named executive officers currently meet these retirement eligibility criteria.
Compensation Decision-Making Process
Human Capital and Compensation Committee review process
In early 2021, the Human Capital and Compensation Committee engaged the services of Willis Towers Watson (WTW) to provide executive compensation consulting services. The committee obtained from WTW competitive market data on compensation for executives to generally assess the competitiveness of our executive compensation. The competitive market data was based on a peer group and published industry survey data from WTWs General Industry Executive Compensation and Retail/Wholesale Executive Compensation, among other surveys. The peer group was developed by management based on publicly traded companies within the apparel and footwear industries. Some of the companies within the peer group may compete with us for talent or compare our performance from time to time. The following companies were included in the peer group:
2021 Peer Group | ||||||
Bath & Body Works, Inc. (formerly L Brands Inc.) | Levi Strauss & Co. | Skechers U.S.A., Inc. | ||||
Capri Holdings Limited |
lululemon athletica inc. | Tapestry, Inc. | ||||
Carters, Inc. |
NIKE, Inc. | V.F. Corporation | ||||
Columbia Sportswear Company |
PVH Corp. | Wolverine World Wide, Inc. | ||||
Hanesbrands Inc. |
Ralph Lauren Corporation |
The Human Capital and Compensation Committee did not target compensation at or near any particular percentile ranking within the peer group or industry survey data or otherwise use this competitive market data to determine the amount or form of executive compensation. Rather the committee used this data as a general assessment of the competitiveness of our executive compensation programs. The committee determined that our executive compensation was reasonable when compared to the peer group and industry data. As discussed throughout this Compensation
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Discussion and Analysis section, the committee considers many factors in determining executive compensation levels, including the executives prior experience, the position and level of responsibility with our company, market competitiveness, and company, business unit and individual performance.
In early 2022, in conjunction with the review of performance against the 2021 annual cash incentive plan targets and 2022 salaries and annual equity awards for executive officers, the Human Capital and Compensation Committee reviewed tally sheets relating to executive officer compensation that were prepared by management. The tally sheets included summary compensation information for 2019 through 2021, including base salary, annual cash incentive awards and equity awards, and the value of unvested equity awards vesting in 2022 and future years.
The Human Capital and Compensation Committee reviewed similar tally sheet data in 2021 in conjunction with the approval of 2021 base salaries and annual equity awards for executive officers.
As COVID-19 continued to impact our business and industry in early 2021, the Human Capital and Compensation Committee also consulted with WTW regarding potential compensation program design adjustments in response to the ongoing uncertainty. The committee considered several factors, including the continued unpredictability of the pandemic on our results, market practices regarding the impact of COVID-19 on executive compensation design in 2020 and expectations for 2021, the importance of pay for performance, feedback received from stockholders, the importance of alignment of interests between executives and our stockholders and the importance of continuing to motivate executives to lead through challenging times. Based on these factors and upon managements recommendation, in February 2021, the committee determined to maintain the annual equity award program mix of 100% time based awards for 2021 as described in more detail below under Components of Our 2021 Compensation ProgramEquity Awards.
Managements role in determining compensation
As discussed throughout this Compensation Discussion and Analysis section, management makes recommendations to the Human Capital and Compensation Committee on base salaries, annual cash incentive awards, annual equity awards and other types of compensation for executive officers, other than our Executive Chairman and Brand Chief and our CEO, Messrs. Plank and Frisk. Mr. Frisk, with input from other senior executives, has generally recommended the salaries, annual incentive awards and equity awards for our executive officers. The recommendations are based on an assessment of each executives performance, including the performance of the business unit(s) for which the executive officer has responsibility and contributions made to the overall success of our business. Mr. Plank, our Executive Chairman and Brand Chief, provides recommendations with respect to Mr. Frisks compensation to the committee based on Mr. Frisks performance and the overall success of our business.
Certain executives, including our CEO, our Chief People and Administrative Officer, our Vice President of Total Rewards, our Chief Financial Officer and our General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, have also been involved in recommendations on the design and framework for our annual cash incentive awards and our annual equity awards. These executives also attend meetings of the Human Capital and Compensation Committee from time to time. The committee generally approves salaries and annual incentive awards for executive officers in executive sessions of the committee without management present.
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Components of Our 2021 Compensation Program
BASE SALARY
The Human Capital and Compensation Committee approves base salaries for our executive officers at levels it deems appropriate based primarily on the executives level of responsibility, experience and competitive market data.
The following table summarizes the base salaries for our named executive officers approved by the Human Capital and Compensation Committee for 2021:
Named Executive | Title | 2021 Base Salary(1) | ||||||
Patrik Frisk | President and Chief Executive Officer | $ | 1,300,000 | |||||
Kevin Plank | Executive Chairman and Brand Chief | $ | 500,000 | |||||
David Bergman | Chief Financial Officer | $ | 750,000 | |||||
Colin Browne | Chief Operating Officer | $ | 775,000 | |||||
Stephanie Pugliese | President, Americas | $ | 750,000 |
(1) | As discussed below in the notes to the 2021 Summary Compensation Table, these base salaries became effective March 29, 2021. |
For our named executive officers, the Human Capital Management and Compensation Committee took the following actions for 2021:
| Mr. Frisk: Approved a base salary increase from $1.25 million to $1.3 million based on a review of his total direct compensation as compared to relevant market data. |
| Mr. Plank: Approved a new base salary of $500,000 as Executive Chairman and Brand Chief based on a review of his total direct compensation as compared to relevant market data. In 2008, Mr. Plank had voluntarily reduced his salary as CEO from $500,000 to $26,000, which was his approximate salary when he founded our company, and his salary had not been adjusted since then. |
| Mr. Bergman: Approved a base salary increase from $685,000 to $750,000 based on a review of his total direct compensation as compared to relevant market data. |
| Mr. Browne: Approved a base salary increase from $700,000 to $775,000 based on a review of his total direct compensation as compared to relevant market data, as well as additional responsibilities assumed by Mr. Browne in late 2020, primarily the oversight of information technology. |
| Ms. Pugliese: Approved a base salary increase from $700,000 to $750,000 based on a review of her total direct compensation as compared to relevant market data, as well as additional responsibilities assumed by Ms. Pugliese in late 2020 with the oversight of our Latin America region. |
Before approving each of the increases reflected above, the committee considered competitive market data on compensation for comparable positions from WTWs executive compensation market assessment, which includes surveys and proxy data.
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ANNUAL CASH INCENTIVE AWARD
2021 Plan Design and Performance Measures
We have an annual cash incentive plan for our executive officers pursuant to which executives are eligible for a cash incentive award based primarily on company performance during the year. In February 2021, we announced our financial expectations for fiscal year 2021, noting that we expected net revenue growth at a high-single digit percentage rate as compared to the prior year, and adjusted operating income of $130 million to $150 million. The Human Capital and Compensation Committee considered these expectations and the continued uncertainty regarding the impacts of COVID-19 on our business when establishing targets under the annual cash incentive plan. The committee also considered the continued importance of our diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
Below is a summary of the targets considered in our annual cash incentive plan for 2021, their relative weighting and our performance against each metric:
2021 Annual Cash Incentive Plan | ||||||||||||
Weighting | Description | Threshold | Target | Maximum | 2021 Results | |||||||
Financial Targets | ||||||||||||
Adjusted Operating Income* | 70% | Weighting emphasizes the continued importance of profitability when determining ultimate award amounts | $120 million |
$175 million |
$210 million |
$529 million | ||||||
Net Revenue** | 10% | Continued revenue growth considered a fundamental indicator of our business strength | $4,775 million |
$4,950 million |
$5,100 million |
$5,683 million | ||||||
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion | 20% | |||||||||||
Organizational Education Achievements** | Required accountability for completion of specified training and education requirements by corporate employees | 80% training completion by corporate employees based on program and level within the organization | 90% training completion by corporate employees based on program and level within the organization | 100% training completion by corporate employees based on program and level within the organization | Exceeded Target | |||||||
Representation Improvements** | Required improvement of representation metrics for women and underrepresented minorities in the U.S. corporate employee population | 80% of specified target improvements at various levels within the organization | 100% of specified target improvements at various levels within the organization | 120% of specified target improvements at various levels within the organization | Exceeded Target |
* | The Adjusted Operating Income targets above must include the funding for the incentive award amounts. As a result, in order to fund higher incentive award amounts above the threshold level, the company must have achieved Operating Income levels even higher than those shown above. Our actual GAAP reported Operating Income for 2021 was approximately $486 million. |
** | The threshold Adjusted Operating Income goal must be met for the Net Revenue and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion performance metrics to be funded for payout. If the Adjusted Operating Income payout is above threshold, but below target, the payout for the Net Revenue and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion metrics cannot exceed 50% of the Adjusted Operating Income payout. |
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Our annual cash incentive plan for executives for 2021 was based primarily on the financial and diversity, equity and inclusion targets described above. For the financial targets, each executives performance was tied to overall company performance rather than individual business units. For executives in charge of certain business units, achievement of diversity, equity and inclusion targets is measured based on the individual business unit performance. For Mr. Frisk and Mr. Plank, however, 100% of their incentive award was tied to the financial performance and diversity, equity and inclusion targets for the overall company. In addition, while the annual cash incentive award amounts are primarily determined based on the company-wide measures discussed above, the Human Capital and Compensation Committee also considers the individual performance of our executive officers, and may adjust up or down the annual cash incentive amounts based on individual performance during the year. Performance reviews are generally based on a qualitative assessment of performance and consider the executives performance and the performance of the department or departments for which the executive has responsibility and the contributions the executive and department are making to the overall success of Under Armour.
Incentive Award Levels and 2021 Results
For 2021, the Human Capital and Compensation Committee set the following award target levels under our annual cash incentive plan for our named executive officers based on achievement of the metrics outlined above:
Threshold | Target | Maximum | ||||||
(Pays at 50% of Target) | (Pays at 200% of Target) | |||||||
Chief Executive Officer |
82.5% of annual salary | 165% of annual salary | 330% of annual salary | |||||
2020 Award Levels |
37.5% of annual salary | 75% of annual salary | None | |||||
Pre-COVID-19 Expectation |
75% of annual salary | 150% of annual salary | 300% of annual salary | |||||
Executive Chairman and Brand Chief |
$500,000 | $1,000,000 | $2,000,000 | |||||
2020 Award Levels |
$500,000 | $1,000,000 | None | |||||
Pre-COVID-19 Expectation |
$1,000,000 | $2,000,000 | $4,000,000 | |||||
Other Named Executive Officers |
37.5% of annual salary | 75% of annual salary | 150% of annual salary | |||||
2020 Award Levels |
18.75% of annual salary | 37.5% of annual salary | None | |||||
Pre-COVID-19 Expectation |
37.5% of annual salary | 75% of annual salary | 150% of annual salary |
Between the threshold amount and the target amount of each metric, and the target amount and maximum amount of each metric, the company utilizes a sliding scale to determine the payout based on the amount of funding generated by the incremental adjusted operating income dollars, revenue dollars, percentage of organizational education achievements or percentage of representation improvements. The annual incentive amounts for all the named executive officers were set at the above levels in order to have a significant percentage of the executive officers total compensation tied primarily to corporate performance. We believe tying a significant percentage of executive officers total compensation to corporate performance supports our objective to motivate our executives to build and profitably grow our business.
In 2020 in response to COVID-19, we reduced the award levels under our annual cash incentive plan by 50%, and did not include an opportunity for a maximum level of performance. For our 2021 annual cash incentive plan, with respect to our named executive officers other than Mr. Frisk and Mr. Plank, we returned the award target levels to pre-pandemic expectations. Based on a review of relevant market data and Mr. Frisks continued strong performance, the Human Capital and Compensation Committee approved an increase in Mr. Frisks target level of performance to 165% of his annual base salary, as compared to the 150% pre-pandemic expectation. The committee also approved a decrease in Mr. Planks target level to $1 million, as compared to the $2 million pre-pandemic expectation. With respect to Mr. Plank, the committee considered his transition from
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CEO to Executive Chairman and Brand Chief at the start of 2020, the critical role Mr. Plank continues to play in his current role, other adjustments to the components of his compensation and relevant market data.
With respect to the financial targets, we achieved the maximum performance level, with adjusted operating income of $529 million, and net revenue of $5,683 million. With respect to the diversity, equity and inclusion targets, overall company performance exceeded the target performance level for each measure. For those named executive officers whose achievement of diversity, equity and inclusion targets was measured based on individual business unit performance, performance also met or exceeded the target performance level.
Based on these performance conditions, the Human Capital and Compensation Committee approved 2021 annual cash incentive award amounts for the named executive officers at amounts ranging from 185% to 189.5% of the target level.
The annual cash incentive award for our executives is primarily determined based on the performance measures discussed above. However, the Human Capital and Compensation Committee considers the overall performance of our CEO and the other executive officers, and may adjust up or down the annual incentive amounts based on individual performance during the year. Performance reviews are generally based on a qualitative assessment of performance and consider the executives performance and the performance of the department or departments for which the executive has responsibility, as well as the contributions the executive and department are making to the overall success of Under Armour. For 2021, based on our overall strong results, management did not recommend, and the committee did not make, any further adjustments to the annual cash incentive awards for the named executive officers based on individual performance.
For the annual cash incentive amounts paid to the named executive officers, see the 2021 Summary Compensation Table below.
EQUITY AWARDS
Management and the Human Capital and Compensation Committee believe equity awards are an essential component of executive compensation and serve to align better the interests of our executives with those of our stockholders.
The Human Capital and Compensation Committee approves equity awards under our Third Amended and Restated 2005 Omnibus Long-Term Incentive Plan (the 2005 Plan). The purpose of the 2005 Plan is to enhance our ability to attract and retain highly qualified executives and other persons and to motivate them to improve our business results and earnings for the long term by providing them with equity holdings in Under Armour. While the committee has the discretion under the terms of the plan to issue awards for shares of our Class A Stock, the committee has used only our Class C Stock for equity compensation in recent years.
Annual Equity Awards for 2021
As discussed above, historically, the mix of annual equity awards granted to our executives has been 50% time based and 50% performance based. In response to the impacts of COVID-19 on our business, in 2020 the Human Capital and Compensation Committee approved temporary changes to the design of our annual equity award program to provide for 100% time based annual equity awards, with a reduced grant date value in response to the challenging business environment and significant declines in our stock price in 2020.
In early 2021, management recommended, and the Human Capital and Compensation Committee approved, maintaining the design of our annual equity award program to consist of 100% time based
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annual equity awards for 2021. Management further recommended and the committee approved that the grant date fair value of annual equity awards for executives return to historical pre-pandemic levels, subject to certain adjustments described below.
The following provides a summary of our 2021 annual equity award program for our named executive officers as compared to our pre-pandemic program. For our upcoming fiscal year, we have returned to a mix of 50% time based and 50% performance based annual equity awards. For further discussion of the design of our executive compensation program for the upcoming fiscal year, see Fiscal Year 2023 Compensation Changes below.
The Human Capital and Compensation Committee considered several factors when evaluating the design of the 2021 equity awards. In early 2021, the potential impacts of COVID-19 on our business continued to be highly uncertain and continued to significantly impact managements ability to reliably forecast the long-term financial targets historically used in connection with performance based equity awards, specifically net revenues and operating income. The committee considered whether to continue to reduce the grant date fair value of the annual awards or to return to pre-pandemic award levels. The committee considered relevant market data and the importance of aligning executive interests with our stockholders and the importance of motivating executives to lead through challenging times when making its decision. Weighing these factors, management recommended, and the committee approved, maintaining 100% time based annual equity awards for 2021 for executives, with grant date fair values returning to historical pre-pandemic levels, subject to certain adjustments described in more detail below.
Executive officers and members of management received their annual equity awards in the form of time based restricted stock units. Since 2015, Mr. Plank had received his annual equity awards in the form of stock options. In early 2021, WTW conducted a review of relevant market data of total direct compensation for the executive chairman role and the compensation realized by Mr. Plank in recent years. Based on this review, management recommended, and the Human Capital and Compensation Committee approved, granting Mr. Planks 2021 annual equity award in the form of restricted stock units, rather than stock options.
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Employees receiving equity awards under the 2005 Plan are chosen primarily based on their position and responsibilities within the company. For executive officers, the Human Capital and Compensation Committee considered the mix of equity awards as part of executives total compensation.
With respect to Mr. Frisk, management recommended, and the Human Capital and Compensation Committee approved, an annual time based equity award with a grant date fair value of $10 million for 2021, as compared to his target total annual equity award value of $7 million (based on pre-COVID-19 practices). In considering this increase, the committee considered Mr. Frisks contributions in leading the organization through a restructuring and positioning our organization for improved efficiency and profitable growth going forward with a focused strategy and significant operational improvements. The committee reviewed and considered the total compensation realized by Mr. Frisk in recent years, as well as relevant market data.
With respect to each of Mr. Browne and Ms. Pugliese, management recommended, and the Human Capital and Compensation Committee approved, an annual time based equity award with a grant date fair value of $2.25 million, as compared to target total annual equity award values of $1.25 million (based on pre-COVID-19 practices). In considering each of these changes the committee considered the executives performance throughout 2020, leading the organization through unprecedented challenges, and the impact of our 2020 restructuring program on Mr. Brownes and Ms. Puglieses respective organizations, following which they each assumed additional responsibilities. The committee also considered succession planning, retention and the criticality of their respective roles.
These equity awards are included in the Grants of Plan-Based Awards for 2021 table below.
Time Based Equity Awards
From time to time management recommends, and the Human Capital and Compensation Committee approves, other time based restricted stock unit awards to certain of our executive officers, typically in connection with the officer joining our company or to ensure that the officers financial interests are sufficiently aligned with the interests of our stockholders. In determining the amount of these awards, management and the committee considered primarily the executives position and level of responsibility within our company, as well as the retention and long-term incentive value of the award. None of the named executive officers received these awards during 2021.
FISCAL YEAR 2023 COMPENSATION CHANGES
As previously disclosed, our Board of Directors approved a change in our fiscal year end from December 31 to March 31, effective for the fiscal year beginning April 1, 2022. Following a three month-transition period (January 1, 2022 March 31, 2022), our fiscal year 2023 will run from April 1, 2022 through March 31, 2023. Consequently, there will be no fiscal year 2022.
In connection with the Human Capital and Compensation Committees annual review of executive compensation, in its meetings in October 2021 and February 2022, the committee considered the design of our fiscal year 2023 executive compensation program, which will cover both the transition period and fiscal year 2023, and made certain adjustments to the design of our fiscal year 2023 annual equity program as compared to the design of our 2021 program. Specifically, the committee determined to return to its historical pre-pandemic practice of granting 50% time based restricted stock unit awards and 50% performance based restricted stock unit awards in connection with the fiscal year 2023 annual equity award program. The time based awards were granted in February 2022 and will vest in three equal annual installments beginning in May 2023. The performance based awards are expected to be granted following the release of our fiscal year 2023 financial guidance during the first
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quarter of fiscal year 2023, and are expected to utilize revenue and adjusted operating income performance measures for a three-year performance period, from fiscal year 2023 through 2025. The awards will be eligible to vest in May 2025 based on performance. In addition, the committee returned Mr. Frisks total target annual equity award amount to $7.0 million (consistent with the pre-pandemic level), as compared to $10.0 million for 2021, and Ms. Puglieses total target annual equity award amount to $1.25 million, as compared to $2.25 million for 2021. Based on a review of market data, the committee approved adjustments to the total target annual equity award amount for the roles of Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer to $1.75 million and $1.5 million, respectively, as compared to pre-pandemic levels of $1.25 million each.
BENEFITS AND PERQUISITES
We have no defined benefit pension plan or any type of supplemental retirement plan for executives. We have a deferred compensation plan to provide senior management, including executive officers, with a way to save on a tax-deferred basis for retirement and other needs. The plan allows for company contributions in certain limited cases. See Nonqualified Deferred Compensation for a description of this plan and the balances under the plan for the named executive officers. We did not make any company contributions to the plan in 2021 for any named executive officer.
Executive officers are eligible to participate in our broad-based benefit plans available to employees generally, including a 401(k) plan and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
We pay the premiums for supplemental long-term disability insurance for our executive officers. The standard benefit offered to all employees provides long-term disability insurance equal to 50% of their salary, with the ability for the employee to elect to pay the premiums for up to an additional 16.66% of their salary (for 66.66% in total). The benefit is capped at a maximum benefit of $10,000 per month. The cap results in a lower percentage of salary paid for executive officers under the standard benefit. The supplemental policy for our named executive officers provides additional coverage of up to $20,000 per month. We do not provide any tax gross-up to our executive officers to cover the income taxes incurred as a result of our paying the premiums on these policies.
We maintain a lease of a corporate aircraft for business purposes. In light of ongoing health and safety concerns due to COVID-19, the Human Capital and Compensation Committee approved personal use of the aircraft by Mr. Frisk for up to $250,000 of aggregate incremental cost to the company over the 15-month period between January 1, 2021 and March 31, 2022 without requiring reimbursement. His personal use of the aircraft is primarily in connection with travel to and from our global corporate headquarters. We permit Mr. Frisks family to accompany him on any such personal trips. We provide a tax gross-up to Mr. Frisk with respect to the taxable income attributed to his use of the aircraft.
Equity Grant Practices
During 2021, equity awards were generally granted to executive officers at one of our regularly scheduled Human Capital and Compensation Committee meetings. Our practice is to grant restricted stock units with a grant date fair value based on the closing market price of our common stock on the grant date. In years where stock options are granted, our practice is to grant stock options with an exercise price equal to the closing market price of our common stock on the grant date. We have not had any program, plan or practice to select stock option grant dates for executive officers in coordination with the release of material non-public information in order to create value for the executive when the stock price increases over the exercise price for the stock option.
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Hedging and Pledging
As part of our insider trading policy, our board has adopted prohibitions against specified individuals from engaging in certain hedging transactions of Under Armour stock. This policy applies to all of our employees, officers and directors, as well as their spouses, minor children, relatives and other persons who live with them, and any trusts, estates or other entities over which they exercise control or in which they have any beneficial interest. Persons subject to the policy are prohibited from effecting short sales of our securities. Our insider trading policy defines a short sale as a sale involving securities the seller does not own at the time of the sale or, if owned by the seller, securities that will be delivered on a delayed basis beyond the customary settlement date. Our insider trading policy also prohibits purchases or sales of derivative securities, such as puts and calls, relating to our stock. While our policy does not prohibit pledging our securities, none of our directors or executive officers has any shares pledged as security.
Executive Severance
We have a change in control severance agreement with all of our executives except for our Executive Chairman and Brand Chief, Mr. Plank. The purpose of the agreement is to ensure that we are able to receive and rely upon the executives advice as to the best interest of the company and our stockholders in connection with a change in control without concern that the executive might be distracted, or his or her advice may be affected by the personal uncertainties and risks created by a change in control. The agreements generally provide severance only following a change in control and only if the executives employment is terminated without cause or the executive leaves for good reason within one year after the change in control, generally referred to as a double trigger. The agreements do not provide for a tax gross-up. The primary benefit offered under the agreements is severance in an amount equal to one years salary and annual incentive award plus a pro-rata annual incentive award for the year in which the employment ends. The executive must agree not to compete against the company for one year to receive these benefits. The agreements have a fixed two-year term with no automatic renewal of the term. In early 2021, the Human Capital and Compensation Committee and the Board reviewed the agreements and decided that the agreements were reasonable and should be extended through the end of 2023.
We also provide severance benefits to all of our executives (other than Mr. Plank) in connection with a termination without cause occurring other than in connection with a change in control. As described in further detail below under Potential Payments Upon Termination of Employment or Change in Control, we have agreed to provide Mr. Frisk certain payments upon the termination of his employment without cause or his resignation for good reason.
Deductibility of Executive Compensation
In prior years, management and the Human Capital and Compensation Committee have reviewed and considered, as appropriate, the effect of limitations on deductibility for federal income tax purposes under Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code of compensation in excess of $1 million that was paid to certain executive officers. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 repealed the exemption from the Section 162(m) deduction limit for performance based compensation, effective for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017. As a result, all performance based compensation paid to our named executives is now included when determining compensation in excess of $1 million that generally will not be deductible. The Human Capital and Compensation Committee believes that the lost deduction on compensation payable in excess of the $1 million limitation for the named executive officers is not material relative to the benefit of attracting and retaining talented management. Accordingly, the Human Capital and Compensation Committee will continue to retain the discretion to pay compensation that is not deductible.
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Human Capital and Compensation Committee Report
The Human Capital and Compensation Committee has reviewed and discussed the Compensation Discussion and Analysis section of this Proxy Statement with Under Armours management. Based on this review and discussion, the Human Capital and Compensation Committee recommended to the Board of Directors that the Compensation Discussion and Analysis be included in our Proxy Statement and be incorporated by reference into our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, as filed with the SEC.
Harvey L. Sanders, Chairman
Jerri L. DeVard
David W. Gibbs
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2021 Summary Compensation Table
The following table sets forth information concerning compensation paid or accrued in the applicable years to our Chief Executive Officer, our Chief Financial Officer, and the other three most highly compensated executive officers in 2021. Certain salary and annual incentive plan compensation amounts may be deferred under our deferred compensation plan as discussed under Nonqualified Deferred Compensation for 2021 below. There were significant reductions to compensation in 2020 in response to the pandemic that impact the year-over-year changes to compensation as further discussed in the Compensation Discussion and Analysis above.
Name and Principal Position |
Year | Salary ($) |
Bonus ($) |
Stock Awards ($)(1)(2) |
Option Awards ($)(1)(2) |
Non-Equity Incentive Plan Compensation ($) |
All Other Compensation ($)(3) |
Total ($) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Patrik Frisk(4) |
2021 | 1,286,539 | 0 | 10,000,000 | 0 | 3,985,004 | 273,370 | 15,544,913 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
President and Chief Executive Officer |
2020 | 1,088,221 | 0 | 5,250,000 | 0 | 937,500 | 104,594 | 7,380,315 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
2019 | 1,000,000 | 0 | 4,000,000 | 0 | 960,000 | 70,871 | 6,030,871 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kevin Plank(5) |
2021 | 372,385 | 0 | 4,000,000 | 0 | 1,875,000 | 18,729 | 6,266,114 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Executive Chairman and Brand Chief |
2020 | 26,000 | 0 | 0 | 2,000,000 | 1,000,000 | 10,429 | 3,036,429 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
2019 | 26,000 | 0 | 0 | 4,000,000 | 1,920,000 | 8,169 | 5,954,169 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
David Bergman(6) |
2021 | 732,500 | 0 | 1,250,000 | 0 | 1,019,128 | 18,836 | 3,020,464 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chief Financial Officer |
2020 | 590,610 | 0 | 937,500 | 0 | 317,104 | 16,219 | 1,861,434 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
2019 | 650,000 | 0 | 1,250,000 | 0 | 463,125 | 18,436 | 2,381,561 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Colin Browne(7) |
2021 | 754,808 | 0 | 2,250,000 | 0 | 1,076,061 | 9,449 | 4,090,319 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chief Operating Officer |
2020 | 594,757 | 0 | 937,500 | 0 | 346,593 | 9,449 | 1,888,299 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
2019 | 580,294 | 0 | 2,250,000 | 0 | 435,221 | 12,149 | 3,277,664 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stephanie Pugliese(8) |
2021 | 736,538 | 0 | 2,250,000 | 0 | 1,024,089 | 23,105 | 4,033,732 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
President, Americas |
2020 | 613,171 | 0 | 937,500 | 0 | 354,375 | 121,158 | 2,026,204 |
(1) | Reflects the grant date fair value of all performance and time based restricted stock unit and stock option awards in accordance with SEC disclosure rules. As discussed above, due to the impact of COVID-19, no performance based awards were granted in 2020 or 2021. Performance based awards granted in 2019 included threshold, target and stretch levels of performance. The 2019 performance based awards were based on a combined 2019-2020 performance period and were forfeited in full in light of the reduced sales due to COVID-19, with no adjustments to prior targets or substitute awards granted. |
In accordance with SEC disclosure rules, we are required to present the fair values of the 2019 performance based awards at grant date assuming achievement at the highest level or stretch level of performance conditions for each of these awards (equal to 200% of the target value) . The value of any time based awards are not included. |
Name |
2019 Performance Based Awards ($) |
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Patrik Frisk |
4,000,000 | |||
Kevin Plank |
4,000,000 | |||
David Bergman |
1,250,000 | |||
Colin Browne |
1,250,000 |
The 2019 performance based awards were based on a combined two-year performance period and were forfeited in full. |
(2) | Equity grants included in this table are further described above under the Compensation Discussion and Analysis or below in the Grants of Plan-Based Awards for 2021 or Outstanding Equity Awards at 2021 Fiscal Year-End tables. We have disclosed the assumptions made in the valuation of the stock and option awards in Stock Based Compensation under Note 14 to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021. |
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(3) | All Other Compensation for 2021 includes the following items: |
Name |
Insurance Premiums ($)(a) |
Matching Contributions Under 401(k) Plan ($) |
Other ($)(b) |
Tax Reimbursements ($)(c) |
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Patrik Frisk |
5,519 | 11,600 | 221,647 | 34,604 | ||||||||||||
Kevin Plank |
7,129 | 11,600 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
David Bergman |
7,236 | 11,600 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
Colin Browne |
9,449 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
Stephanie Pugliese |
8,405 | 11,600 | 3,100 | 0 |
(a) | The insurance premiums are for supplemental disability insurance for the named executive officers. This insurance provides up to $20,000 per month in disability insurance until age 67 and supplements the disability insurance offered to employees generally, which provides a maximum of $10,000 per month. |
(b) | For Mr. Frisk, the other compensation includes aggregate incremental costs to the company of $198,335 for personal use of our corporate aircraft and $23,312 for tax services. The aggregate incremental cost to the company for personal use of our aircraft is calculated based on identifiable variable operating costs, which generally include the cost of fuel, crew travel expenses, catering and landing fees. Because our aircraft is leased primarily for business use based on a fixed monthly lease rate, we do not allocate any of the monthly lease rate or other fixed monthly costs that do not change based on usage. We believe that the use of this methodology is a reasonably accurate method for calculating the incremental operating costs. In addition, from time to time, family members of an executive may travel on our aircraft for personal reasons when the aircraft is already going to a specific destination for a business reason, which has minimal incremental cost to the company. When this occurs, only the direct variable costs associated with the additional passenger (for example, catering) are included in determining aggregate incremental cost to the company. For Mr. Frisk, All Other Compensation for 2019 and 2020 includes aggregate incremental costs to the company for tax services of $31,925 and $25,508, respectively. These amounts were previously inadvertently underreported in prior years. Mr. Frisks 2019 and 2020 compensation has been updated to include these amounts. For Ms. Pugliese, the other compensation includes the cost of an executive health exam. |
(c) | For Mr. Frisk, tax reimbursements include a gross-up amount to cover taxes on the items identified in note (b) above. |
(4) | As discussed above, Mr. Frisk received a base salary increase from $1.25 million to $1.3 million, effective March 29, 2021, and his target non-equity incentive compensation award increased from 150% to 165% of his base salary. As discussed in more detail below, Mr. Frisks total actual realized compensation was approximately $11.57 million in 2021. Please see CEO Actual Compensation Realized immediately below this 2021 Summary Compensation Table. |
(5) | As discussed above, Mr. Plank received a base salary increase from $26,000 to $500,000, effective March 29, 2021, and his target non-equity incentive compensation award decreased to $1,000,000. |
(6) | As discussed above, Mr. Bergman received a base salary increase from $685,000 to $750,000, effective March 29, 2021. |
(7) | As discussed above, Mr. Browne received a base salary increase from $700,000 to $775,000, effective March 29, 2021. |
(8) | As discussed above, Ms. Pugliese received a base salary increase from $700,000 to $750,000, effective March 29, 2021. Ms. Pugliese joined our company in September 2019 as President, North America, and was named President of the Americas in June 2020. Since Ms. Pugliese only became a named executive officer in 2020, we are only required to provide her 2020 and 2021 compensation. |
CEO Actual Compensation Realized
The supplemental table below sets forth 2021, 2020 and 2019 compensation for Mr. Frisk, our CEO, and is not a substitute for the Summary Compensation Table above. Total Actual Compensation Realized reports the actual value realized during the year on equity compensation, including the vesting of restricted stock units granted in prior years. This differs from Total compensation as set forth in the Summary Compensation Table, which as noted above presents the grant date fair value of equity awards granted in that year. We believe this supplemental table more accurately reflects the significant impact the companys performance has had on Mr. Frisks compensation in past periods compared to the Summary Compensation Table presented above. We further believe this table provides important context to our stockholders regarding the total value delivered to Mr. Frisk each year.
Year | Salary ($) |
Bonus ($) |
Vesting of Stock Awards ($)(1) |
Exercise of Option Awards ($) |
Non-Equity Incentive Plan Compensation ($) |
All Other Compensation ($) |
Total Actual Compensation Realized ($) |
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2021 | 1,286,539 | 0 | 6,021,612 | 0 | 3,985,004 | 273,370 | 11,566,525 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
2020 | 1,088,221 | 0 | 2,404,667 | 0 | 937,500 | 104,594 | 4,534,982 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
2019 | 1,000,000 | 0 | 3,056,698 | 0 | 960,000 | 70,871 | 5,087,569 |
(1) | Amounts are based on the closing price of our common stock on the date of vesting. The stock award values reflected above include the vesting of a combination of time based and performance based restricted stock units. |
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Grants of Plan-Based Awards for 2021
The following table contains information concerning: (1) possible payments to the named executive officers under our 2021 annual cash incentive plan approved by the Human Capital and Compensation Committee in 2021; and (2) estimated equity award payouts to the named executive officers in 2021 under the 2005 Plan. All equity awards included in the table below were for shares of our Class C Stock.
Grant Date |
Estimated
Possible Payouts Under Non-Equity Incentive Plan Awards (1) |
Stock Awards: Number of Shares of Stock or Units (#)(2) |
Grant Date Fair Value of Stock Awards ($) |
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Name and Principal Position |
Threshold ($) |
Target ($) |
Maximum ($) |
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Patrik Frisk |
1,062,668 | 2,125,336 | 4,250,672 | |||||||||||||||||||||
President and Chief Executive Officer |
2/11/21 | 520,563 | 10,000,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Kevin Plank |
500,000 | 1,000,000 | 2,000,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Executive Chairman and Brand Chief |
2/11/21 | 208,225 | 4,000,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
David Bergman |
275,440 | 550,880 | 1,101,760 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Chief Financial Officer |
2/11/21 | 65,071 | 1,250,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Colin Browne |
283,921 | 567,842 | 1,135,685 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Chief Operating Officer |
2/11/21 | 117,127 | 2,250,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Stephanie Pugliese |
276,781 | 553,562 | 1,107,123 | |||||||||||||||||||||
President of the Americas |
2/11/21 | 117,127 | 2,250,000 |
(1) | As more fully described in the Compensation Discussion and Analysis above, executives were eligible for a possible cash award for 2021 pursuant to our annual cash incentive plan based primarily on corporate performance. The threshold, target and maximum amounts in the table reflect the possible incentive awards based on corporate performance. The target incentive award for Mr. Frisk was 165% of his base salary (prorated for the increase that took effect on March 29, 2021); the target incentive award for Mr. Plank was $1.0 million; and for the other named executives, the target incentive award was 75% of their base salaries (prorated for the increases that took effect on March 29, 2021). The threshold and maximum incentive awards were 50% and 200% of the target award amount, respectively. |
(2) | As described above, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, time based restricted stock unit awards have represented 50% of the annual equity awards granted to our named executive officers, with the remaining 50% being granted in the form of performance based restricted stock units. However, due to a variety of factors discussed above in the Compensation Discussion and AnalysisCompensation Decision-Making ProcessHuman Capital and Compensation Committee review process, upon managements recommendation, the Human Capital and Compensation Committee approved the grant of 100% time based restricted stock unit awards for 2021. As described above in the Equity AwardsAnnual Equity Awards for 2021, Mr. Frisk, Mr. Browne and Ms. Pugliese were each granted an increased annual time based restricted stock unit award (as compared to pre-COVID-19 levels). All of the time based restricted stock unit awards vest in four equal annual installments beginning in February 2022 and are subject to continued employment. All of the awards vest sooner upon death or disability or upon an involuntary termination following a change in control of Under Armour. Dividend equivalents are not paid on restricted stock units. |
We have no employment agreements with any of our named executive officers.
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Outstanding Equity Awards at 2021 Fiscal Year-End
The following table contains information concerning unexercised stock options and restricted stock units that were not vested for the named executive officers as of December 31, 2021. All awards represent shares of our Class C Stock, except as otherwise noted.
Option Awards | Stock Awards | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Name |
Grant Date |
Number of securities underlying unexercised options exercisable (#)(1)(2) |
Number of securities underlying unexercised options unexercisable (#)(2) |
Option exercise price ($) |
Option expiration date |
Number of shares or units of stock that have not vested (#)(3) |
Market value of shares or units of stock that have not vested ($)(4) |
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Patrik Frisk |
7/10/2017 | 104,548 | 1,886,046 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2/20/2018 | 32,447 | 585,344 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2/20/2018 | 32,447 | 585,344 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2/19/2019 | 51,573 | 930,377 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2/13/2020 | 173,497 | 3,129,886 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
5/27/2020 | 154,231 | 2,782,327 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2/11/2021 | 520,563 | 9,390,957 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kevin Plank |
2/17/2015 | 111,404 | 0 | 35.94 | 2/16/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
2/17/2015 | 110,621 | 0 | 36.71 | 2/16/2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
2/10/2017 | 244,799 | 0 | 19.04 | 2/9/2027 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
2/20/2018 | 217,077 | 72,359 | 15.41 | 2/19/2028 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
2/20/2018 | 217,077 | 72,359 | 15.41 | 2/19/2028 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
2/19/2019 | 114,943 | 114,943 | 19.39 | 2/18/2029 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
2/13/2020 | 75,643 | 226,929 | 15.13 | 2/12/2030 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
2/11/2021 | 208,225 | 3,756,379 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
David Bergman |
2/20/2018 | 12,168 | 219,511 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2/20/2018 | 12,168 | 219,511 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2/19/2019 | 16,117 | 290,751 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2/13/2020 | 30,982 | 558,915 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
5/27/2020 | 27,542 | 496,858 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2/11/2021 | 65,071 | 1,173,881 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Colin Browne |
2/20/2018 | 12,168 | 219,511 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2/20/2018 | 12,168 | 219,511 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2/19/2019 | 16,117 | 290,751 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2/19/2019 | 25,787 | 465,197 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2/13/2020 | 30,982 | 558,915 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
5/27/2020 | 27,542 | 496,858 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2/11/2021 | 117,127 | 2,112,971 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stephanie Pugliese |
2/13/2020 | 30,982 | 558,915 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
5/27/2020 | 27,542 | 496,858 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2/11/2021 | 117,127 | 2,112,971 |
(1) | The stock options granted on February 17, 2015 with the exercise price of $36.71 represent shares of our Class A Stock. Equity awards granted prior to April 2016 were for shares of our Class A stock. In April 2016, in connection with our recapitalization we paid a dividend to stockholders of record of one share of our Class C Stock for each share of Class A Stock and Class B Stock outstanding (the Class C Dividend) and any equity awards granted thereafter were for shares of our Class C Stock. In accordance with the terms of the 2005 Plan, awards outstanding under the 2005 Plan for shares of our Class A Stock in April 2016 were adjusted on a one-for-one basis to provide for the issuance of an equal number of our Class C Stock. Following this adjustment, in June 2016 we paid a dividend to holders of our Class C Stock in the form of additional shares of Class C Stock (the Adjustment Payment Dividend). Pursuant to the 2005 Plan, awards outstanding under the 2005 Plan for shares of our Class C Stock were adjusted in accordance with the distribution ratio for the dividend. Accordingly, the equity awards granted February 17, 2015 in the table above reflect these adjustments. |
(2) | Awards in this column include both time based stock options and performance based stock options for which the performance conditions have been satisfied. The stock option award granted in 2018 becomes exercisable in one remaining installment in 2022. The stock option award granted in 2019 becomes exercisable in two remaining equal annual installments in 2022 and 2023. The stock option award granted in 2020 becomes exercisable in three remaining equal annual installments in 2022, 2023 and 2024. All of the unexercisable options are subject to continued employment and become exercisable sooner upon death or disability or, in certain circumstances, following a change in control of Under Armour. |
(3) | Awards in this column include both time based restricted stock units and performance based restricted stock units for which the performance conditions have been satisfied. Set forth below is a schedule of the vesting related to each grant date for the restricted stock units identified in this column. Vesting is subject to continued employment. All of the restricted stock units in this column vest sooner upon death or disability or, in certain circumstances, following a change in control of Under Armour. |
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Grant Date | Vesting Schedule | |
7/10/2017 |
These time based restricted stock units vest in one remaining equal annual installment in August 2022. | |
2/20/2018 |
These time based restricted stock units and performance based restricted stock units (which were earned in full) vest in one remaining installment in February 2022. | |
2/19/2019 |
These time based restricted stock units vest in two remaining equal annual installments beginning in February 2022. | |
2/13/2020 |
These time based restricted stock units vest in three remaining equal annual installments beginning February 2022. | |
5/27/2020 |
These time based restricted stock units vest in three remaining equal annual installments beginning February 2022. | |
2/11/2021 |
These time based restricted stock units vest in four equal annual installments beginning February 2022. |
(4) | Based on $18.04 per share (the closing price of our Class C Stock on December 31, 2021). |
Option Exercises and Stock Vested in 2021
The table below sets forth information concerning the exercise of stock options and vesting of restricted stock units for each named executive officer during 2021.
Option Awards | Stock Awards | |||||||||||||||
Name |
Number of Shares Acquired on Exercise (#) |
Value Realized on Exercise ($) |
Number of Shares Acquired on Vesting (#) |
Value Realized on Vesting ($)(1) |
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Patrik Frisk |
0 | 0 | 304,469 | 6,021,612 | ||||||||||||
Kevin Plank |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
David Bergman |
0 | 0 | 76,641 | 1,455,822 | ||||||||||||
Colin Browne |
0 | 0 | 80,021 | 1,507,596 | ||||||||||||
Stephanie Pugliese |
0 | 0 | 58,376 | 1,195,033 |
(1) | Value realized is calculated by multiplying the number of shares vested by the closing price our stock on the date of vesting. |
Nonqualified Deferred Compensation for 2021
The table below sets forth information concerning our deferred compensation plan for each named executive officer during 2021.
Name |
Executive Contributions in 2021 ($) |
Registrant Contributions in 2021 ($) |
Aggregate Earnings in 2021 ($) |
Aggregate Withdrawals/ Distributions ($) |
Aggregate Balance at 12/31/2021 ($) |
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Patrik Frisk |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Kevin Plank |
0 | 0 | 395,698 | 0 | 2,975,456 | |||||||||||||||
David Bergman |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Colin Browne |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Stephanie Pugliese |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The Human Capital and Compensation Committee oversees the plan. The plan allows a select group of management or highly compensated employees as approved by the committee to make annual base salary and annual incentive award deferrals.
Participating employees may elect to defer from 5% to 75% of their annual base salary and 5% to 90% of their annual incentive award. They generally must make salary deferral elections for a given year by December 31st of the prior year, and incentive award deferral elections for a given year by June 30th of the year for which incentive awards are earned. For example, to defer any 2021 incentive award that might be payable in early 2022, employees must have made an election by June 30, 2021. Deferral elections cannot be changed or revoked except in very limited hardship circumstances as permitted under applicable law. Employees immediately vest in all amounts credited to their accounts.
The plan includes a make whole feature for employees who, due to participation in the plan, receive a reduction in the matching contribution under our 401(k) plan. A reduction occurs under the 401(k) plan because of the rule that prohibits the 401(k) plan from recognizing deferrals to a
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non-qualified plan, such as our deferred compensation plan, in the 401(k) plans definition of compensation for matching contribution purposes. Under the plan feature, any amount that, because of these rules, cannot be contributed as a matching contribution to the 401(k) plan will be contributed instead to the deferred compensation plan for those participants employed on the last day of the year. We make no other contributions to the plan.
We credit the deferred compensation accounts with earnings or losses based on the performance of one or more money market or mutual funds selected by the employee from several investment options offered under the plan. Employees may change their investment elections daily. We contribute to a grantor trust to provide us with a source of funds for the benefits payable to participants under the plan. The trust assets are available to provide benefits under the plan unless Under Armour is bankrupt or insolvent.
The timing of distributions is based on elections made by the employees at the time of the initial deferral election. Employees can generally elect to receive a distribution from the plan at least three years after the year in which the deferral amount is actually deferred. Employees may elect to postpone the distribution date for a minimum of five years if they do so at least one year before the previously specified date (a re-election deferral). Employees may elect to receive a distribution upon retirement in a lump sum or in annual installments over a period of two to ten years, as selected by the employee at the time of deferral. If an employee leaves the company, we pay distributions in a lump sum six months following termination of employment, or employees can elect annual installments over a period of two to ten years, with the ability to execute a re-election deferral. If an employee dies, we pay a distribution in a lump sum to the employees beneficiary. Employees may not otherwise withdraw amounts from the plan except in the case of an unforeseeable financial emergency as defined in the plan.
We have no defined benefit pension plans or supplemental retirement plans for executives.
Potential Payments Upon Termination of Employment or Change in Control
The table provides an estimate of the payments and benefits that would be paid to our named executive officers in connection with any termination of employment or upon a change in control of Under Armour. The payments are calculated assuming the termination of employment or change in control occurred on December 31, 2021. All of our named executive officers, except for Mr. Plank, are subject to a change in control severance agreement.
The definitions of change in control, cause and good reason and descriptions of the payments and benefits appear after the table. The table does not include amounts deferred under our deferred compensation plan. For a description of the distributions made under this plan upon termination of employment, see Nonqualified Deferred Compensation for 2021 above.
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Name |
Cash Severance ($) |
Benefits ($) |
Vesting of Equity Awards ($) |
Total ($) |
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Patrik Frisk |
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Change In Control Related |
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Without Cause or Good Reason |
5,550,672 | 105,949 | 19,290,280 | 24,946,902 | ||||||||||||
Any Other Reason |
2,125,336 | 2,125,336 | ||||||||||||||
Non-Change in Control Related |
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Without Cause |
5,285,004 | 18,115 | 5,303,119 | |||||||||||||
For Good Reason |
1,300,000 | 16,966 | 1,316,966 | |||||||||||||
Any Other Reason with Under Armour Enforcing a Non-Compete |
780,000 | 780,000 | ||||||||||||||
Death |
19,290,280 | 19,290,280 | ||||||||||||||
Disability |
19,290,280 | 19,290,280 | ||||||||||||||
Kevin Plank(1) |
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Change In Control Related |
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Without Cause or Good Reason |
4,797,351 | 4,797,351 | ||||||||||||||
Non-Change in Control Related |
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Death |
4,797,351 | 4,797,351 | ||||||||||||||
Disability |
4,797,351 | 4,797,351 | ||||||||||||||
David Bergman |
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Change In Control Related |
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Without Cause or Good Reason |
1,851,760 | 72,276 | 2,959,427 | 4,883,463 | ||||||||||||
Any Other Reason |
550,880 | 550,880 | ||||||||||||||
Non-Change in Control Related |
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Without Cause |
1,769,128 | 18,115 | 1,787,243 | |||||||||||||
Any Other Reason with Under Armour Enforcing a Non-Compete |
450,000 | 450,000 | ||||||||||||||
Death |
2,959,427 | 2,959,427 | ||||||||||||||
Disability |
2,959,427 | 2,959,427 | ||||||||||||||
Colin Browne |
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Change In Control Related |
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Without Cause or Good Reason |
1,910,684 | 95,440 | 4,363,714 | 6,369,837 | ||||||||||||
Any Other Reason |
567,842 | 567,842 | ||||||||||||||
Non-Change in Control Related |
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Without Cause |
1,851,061 | 12,556 | 1,863,617 | |||||||||||||
Any Other Reason with Under Armour Enforcing a Non-Compete |
465,000 | 465,000 | ||||||||||||||
Death |
4,363,714 | 4,363,714 | ||||||||||||||
Disability |
4,363,714 | 4,363,714 | ||||||||||||||
Stephanie Pugliese |
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Change In Control Related |
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Without Cause or Good Reason |
1,857,124 | 78,153 | 3,168,744 | 5,104,021 | ||||||||||||
Any Other Reason |
553,562 | 553,562 | ||||||||||||||
Non-Change in Control Related |
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Without Cause |
1,774,089 | 17,833 | 1,792,922 | |||||||||||||
Any Other Reason with Under Armour Enforcing a Non-Compete |
450,000 | 450,000 | ||||||||||||||
Death |
3,168,744 | 3,168,744 | ||||||||||||||
Disability |
3,168,744 | 3,168,744 |
(1) | As of December 31, 2021, certain of Mr. Planks outstanding and unvested equity awards included stock options for our Class C common stock that had an exercise price that exceeded the price of our Class C stock as of that date. Amounts for these stock options are not included in the table above. |
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Definitions
In the change in control severance agreements and for the equity awards, the term change in control is generally defined as:
| any person or entity becomes the beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of securities of Under Armour representing 50% or more of the total voting power represented by Under Armours then-outstanding voting securities, except for acquisitions by an Under Armour employee benefit plan or by Mr. Plank or his immediate family members; |
| a change in the composition of our Board occurring within a two-year period, as a result of which fewer than a majority of the directors are incumbent directors; |
| the consummation of a merger or consolidation of Under Armour with any other corporation, other than a merger or consolidation where our stockholders continue to have at least 50% of the total voting power in substantially the same proportion as prior to such merger or consolidation or where our directors continue to represent at least 50% of the directors of the surviving entity; or |
| the consummation of the sale or disposition by us of all or substantially all of our assets. |
In the change in control severance agreements and for the equity awards, the term cause is generally defined as:
| material misconduct or neglect in the performance of duties; |
| any felony, an offense punishable by imprisonment, any offense involving material dishonesty, fraud, moral turpitude or immoral conduct, or any crime of sufficient importance to potentially discredit or adversely affect our ability to conduct our business; |
| material breach of our code of conduct; |
| any act that results in severe harm to us, excluding any act taken in good faith reasonably believed to be in our best interests; or |
| material breach of the agreement and the related confidentiality, non-competition and non-solicitation agreement. |
In the change in control severance agreements and for the equity awards, the term good reason is generally defined as:
| a diminishment in the scope of duties or responsibilities; |
| a reduction in base salary, bonus opportunity or a material reduction in the aggregate benefits or perquisites; |
| relocation more than 50 miles from the executives primary place of business, or a significant increase in required travel; |
| a failure by any successor to Under Armour to assume the change in control severance agreement; or |
| a material breach by us of any of the terms of the change in control severance agreement. |
Benefits and Payments
Upon a Change in Control
All restricted stock units and stock options require a double trigger for vesting in connection with a Change in Control. Double-trigger vesting requires both a Change in Control and a termination of the award holders employment without Cause or resignation by the executive for Good Reason in connection with that Change in Control for the vesting of unvested equity awards to accelerate.
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Upon termination of employment by the company without Cause or by the executive for Good Reason in connection with a Change in Control
Under the change in control severance agreements, if the executives employment is terminated without Cause or by the executive for Good Reason in connection with a Change in Control, the executive would receive:
| accrued but unpaid salary and vacation pay (no amounts assumed based on the termination date of December 31, 2021); |
| a pro-rata bonus for the year in which the change in control occurs at the higher of the average bonus paid in the two years prior to termination of employment or the target bonus for the year of such termination of employment (assumed in this case to be the annual target bonus); |
| a lump sum payment equal to the sum of (1) the annual base salary of the executive at the highest rate in effect during the twelve month period following the change in control and (2) the higher of the average bonus paid in the two years prior to termination of employment or the target bonus for the year of such termination of employment (assumed in this case to be the annual target bonus); and |
| for a period of up to one year after the date of termination, the continuation of certain medical, life insurance (assumed in this case the cost to our company to maintain current coverage upon separation) and other welfare benefits unless the executive becomes eligible for another employers substantially similar benefits. |
As a condition to the receipt of the lump sum payment and the continuation of benefits described above, the executive will be required to sign or reconfirm a confidentiality agreement and a one-year non-competition and non-solicitation agreement and execute a general release of claims against Under Armour and its affiliates.
Upon termination of employment for any other reason in connection with a Change in Control
Under the change in control severance agreements, if the executives employment is terminated for any other reason, other than Cause or Good Reason, the executive is entitled to:
| accrued but unpaid salary and vacation pay (no amounts assumed based on termination date of December 31, 2021); and |
| a pro-rata bonus for the year in which the change in control occurs (assumed in this case to be the annual target bonus). |
Termination of employment by the company without Cause or by the executive for Good Reason
Upon joining our company in July 2017, Mr. Frisks confidentiality, non-competition and non-solicitation agreement provided for certain payments upon the termination of his employment without Cause or his resignation for Good Reason. In June 2021, the company and Mr. Frisk entered into an amendment to the confidentiality, non-competition and non-solicitation agreement, which states that if Mr. Frisk would otherwise be entitled to greater severance under the terms of our executive severance policy (described below) in connection with a termination by the company without Cause, then such terms of the executive severance plan will control. In the event he resigned for Good Reason on December 31, 2021, pursuant to the terms of this agreement, Mr. Frisk would receive 12-months of his annual base salary, plus the continuation of medical benefits during the severance period. In the event the company terminated his employment without Cause, Mr. Frisk would receive the same benefits as the other executives under our executive severance policy as described below. The definitions of Cause and Good Reason in this agreement are materially consistent with the definition of those terms in our change in control severance agreements, as described above.
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Termination of employment without Cause
Under our executive severance policy, if an executives employment is terminated without Cause, the executive is entitled to a lump-sum payment of one-year of annual base salary, a pro-rated annual cash incentive award based on our companys actual performance for the year (subject to the executive having been employed through at least the first six months of the year, with payment delivered in the following year concurrently with payments to all employees) and fully paid premiums for medical and dental benefits for a period of 12-months. Receipt of these benefits is subject to the executive signing a non-competition agreement with our company. Mr. Plank is not subject to this policy.
Termination of employment for any reason with Under Armour enforcing a non-compete
Executives generally may not compete for one year after termination of employment for any reason if we continue to pay 60% of their salary during this period.
Disability
All restricted stock units, performance based restricted stock units (except as described below) and stock options vest upon the executives disability.
The named executive officers are covered by a supplemental long-term disability insurance policy that provides an additional benefit beyond the standard benefit offered to employees generally (standard benefit is up to $10,000 monthly). If executives had become disabled, they would have received monthly supplemental disability insurance payments of $20,000 until age 65. Monthly disability payments are not included in the above table because they are paid under a disability insurance policy and not by Under Armour.
Death
All restricted stock units and stock options vest upon the executives death.
Pursuant to SEC disclosure requirements, we are presenting the ratio of the annual total compensation for fiscal year 2021 of Mr. Frisk, our Chief Executive Officer, to that of the median of the annual total compensation for all of our employees.
We previously identified our median employee by examining the total cash compensation paid during our 2020 fiscal year to employees who were employed by Under Armour, Inc. or any of its consolidated subsidiaries on October 1, 2020 (excluding Mr. Frisk). Our median employee has historically been identified as a part-time, hourly employee working in one of our retail stores in North America. During our 2020 fiscal year, we closed many of our brand and factory house stores due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which significantly impacted the total number of hours worked by our retail employees. In addition, as previously disclosed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, in May 2021, we announced an increase in the minimum pay rate for hourly employees in the United States and Canada from a minimum of $10 per hour to $15 per hour ($15.25 Canadian dollars per hour in Canada), which went into effect on June 6, 2021. Given these developments, we have identified a new median employee for fiscal year 2021.
We identified our median employee by examining the total cash compensation paid during our 2021 fiscal year to employees who were employed by Under Armour, Inc. or any of its consolidated subsidiaries on October 1, 2021 (excluding Mr. Frisk). This included our full-time, part-time and seasonal employees, subject to certain exceptions for employees in foreign jurisdictions as described
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below. We believe that total cash compensation reasonably reflects the annual compensation of our employee population, given the limited number of our employees receiving other forms of compensation (such as equity awards). We examined our internal payroll and similar records to determine the total cash compensation paid to our employees included in our calculations. For employees in foreign jurisdictions, we converted amounts paid in foreign currencies to U.S. dollars using the exchange rates we used to prepare our 2021 annual financial statements.
As of October 1, 2021, we had approximately 16,600 employees globally, with approximately 12,000 employees located in the United States and approximately 4,600 located outside the United States. Retail salespersons and distribution facility employees comprise the majority of our employees. To determine our median employee, we excluded employees located in certain foreign jurisdictions, as permitted by the SECs disclosure rules. The excluded jurisdictions included the countries identified below, which represented approximately 4.7% of our total employee population:
Excluded Jurisdiction |
Approximate Number of Employees | |
Mexico | 264 | |
Republic of Korea | 199 | |
Singapore | 148 | |
Malaysia | 141 | |
Italy | 28 | |
Indonesia | 6 | |
Total Excluded Employees | 786 |
For calculating the ratio in 2021, we determined that our estimated median employee was a part-time employee who worked on average around 15 hours per week in one of our retail stores in Canada during 2021, with total annual compensation of $10,466. Mr. Frisks total annual compensation in 2021 was $15,544,913. Based on this information, the ratio of the total annual compensation for Mr. Frisk to our estimated median employee was approximately 1,485 to 1.
We believe this ratio represents a reasonable estimate calculated in a manner consistent with the SECs disclosure requirements under Item 402(u) of Regulation S-K, which permit the use of estimates, assumptions and adjustments in connection with the identification of our median employee. Please note that due to the flexibility permitted by these rules in calculating this ratio, our ratio may not be comparable to CEO pay ratios presented by other companies.
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ADVISORY APPROVAL OF OUR EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
(PROPOSAL 2)
We provide stockholders with the opportunity to cast an annual advisory vote on executive compensation (commonly referred to as a say on pay proposal). This vote is on whether to approve the compensation of the named executive officers as disclosed in the Executive Compensation section of this Proxy Statement, including the Compensation Discussion and Analysis, the compensation tables and the related narrative. For a discussion of the results of our say on pay proposal from our 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, please see Executive Compensation Executive SummaryAdvisory Vote to Approve Executive Compensation.
While this advisory vote to approve executive compensation is non-binding, the Board and the Human Capital and Compensation Committee will review the voting results and seek to determine the cause or causes of any significant negative voting result. Voting results provide little detail by themselves, and we may consult directly with stockholders to better understand issues and concerns not previously presented. The Board and management understand that it is useful and appropriate to seek the views of our stockholders when considering the design and implementation of executive compensation programs.
The Board of Directors asks you to consider the following statement: Do you approve our executive compensation as described in the Executive Compensation section of this Proxy Statement, including the Compensation Discussion and Analysis, the compensation tables and other narrative executive compensation disclosures?
The approval of our executive compensation as described in the Executive Compensation section of this Proxy Statement, including the Compensation Discussion and Analysis, the compensation tables and other narrative executive compensation disclosures, requires the affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast at the Annual Meeting.
The Board of Directors recommends that you vote FOR the approval of our executive compensation.
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EQUITY COMPENSATION PLAN INFORMATION
The following table sets forth information concerning our equity compensation plans that authorize the issuance of shares of Class A and Class C Stock. The information is provided as of December 31, 2021:
Plan Category |
Class of Common Stock |
Number of securities to be issued upon exercise of outstanding options, warrants and rights (a) |
Weighted-average exercise price of outstanding options, warrants and rights (b) |
Number of securities remaining available for future issuance under equity compensation plans (excluding securities reflected in column (a)) (c) |
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Equity compensation plans approved by security holders |
Class A | 293,659 | 36.71 | 11,012,576 | ||||||||||
Equity compensation plans approved by security holders |
Class C | 8,875,795 | 18.14 | 30,369,587 | ||||||||||
Equity compensation plans not approved by security holders |
Class A | 71,519 | | | ||||||||||
Equity compensation plans not approved by security holder |
Class C | 72,023 | | |
The number of securities to be issued upon exercise of outstanding options, warrants and rights issued under equity compensation plans approved by security holders includes 47,921 Class A and 6,841,760 Class C restricted stock units and deferred stock units issued to employees, non-employees and directors of Under Armour; these restricted stock units and deferred stock units are not included in the weighted average exercise price calculation above.
The number of securities remaining available for future issuance as of December 31, 2021 includes 8,319,307 shares of our Class A Stock and 28,632,558 shares of our Class C Stock under our 2005 Plan and 2,695,329 shares of our Class A Stock and 1,737,029 shares of our Class C Stock under our Employee Stock Purchase Plan. In addition to securities issued upon the exercise of stock options, warrants and rights, the 2005 Stock Plan authorizes the issuance of restricted and unrestricted shares of our Class A and Class C Stock and other equity awards. Refer to Note 14 to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year-ended December 31, 2021 for a description of the material features of these plans.
The number of securities issued upon exercise of outstanding options, warrants and rights issued under equity compensation plans not approved by security holders includes 71,519 shares of our Class A Stock and 72,023 shares of our Class C Stock issued in connection with the delivery of shares pursuant to deferred stock units granted to certain of our marketing partners. These deferred stock units are not included in the weighted average exercise price calculation above.
The deferred stock units are issued to certain of our marketing partners in connection with their entering into endorsement and other marketing services agreements with us. The terms of each agreement set forth the number of deferred stock units to be granted and the delivery dates for the shares, which range from a one to ten year period, depending on the contract. The deferred stock units are non-forfeitable.
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TRANSACTIONS WITH RELATED PERSONS
In accordance with SEC disclosure requirements, we have presented below transactions in which we are a party that exceeded $120,000 in 2021, and in which any of our related persons had or will have a direct or indirect material interest.
Under Armour Corporate Offices
In 2015, we entered into a lease with an entity controlled by Mr. Plank to lease industrial space located near our corporate headquarters in Baltimore, which we use as an innovation and manufacturing testing facility and for other business purposes. Given the locations proximity to our headquarters in Baltimore City, the use of this space provided a unique opportunity for us to build a state-of-the-art facility to accommodate our innovation needs. The lease covers 68,000 square feet and has a five-year term, with payments that began in April 2016. The annual lease rate was initially approximately $0.5 million, with the annual lease rate escalating 2.5% each year. Prior to entering this lease, we received an independent market rent appraisal, based on which we determined that the lease payments were below fair market lease rates. We also determined that the propertys location and other favorable terms of the lease, such as renewal options and flexibility regarding the design of the space, provide us with overall terms that were both fair and reasonable to us and provided flexibility otherwise unavailable at alternative locations. In 2020, the Audit Committee approved an extension of this lease through June 2022, with annual lease payments of approximately $0.7 million, which continues to represent at or below fair market lease rates. This extension was executed during the first quarter of 2021. For 2021, our total lease payments were approximately $0.7 million.
Aircraft
A company owned by Mr. Plank owns a jet aircraft. We have an operating lease agreement with the company to lease the aircraft when used by Mr. Plank or other persons for our business purposes. We pay a fixed monthly lease payment of $166,667 under the terms of the lease agreement, with total payments of $2.0 million in 2021. We determined that the lease payment rate is at the fair market value lease rate for this aircraft based on a third-party appraisal. The Audit Committee determined the lease terms were reasonable and that we would benefit from using the aircraft for company business.
The Audit Committee approved the terms of each of the foregoing transactions in accordance with our policy on transactions with related persons.
Policies and Procedures for Review and Approval of Transactions with Related Persons
Our Corporate Governance Guidelines require that our Board of Directors approve any transaction involving Under Armour and a director or executive officer or entities controlled by a director or executive officer. The Board has delegated to the Audit Committee oversight and approval of these and other matters that may present conflicts of interest. The Board has adopted a formal written policy on transactions with related persons. Related persons are generally defined under SEC rules as our directors, executive officers, or stockholders owning at least five percent of our outstanding shares, or immediate family members of any of the foregoing. The policy provides that the Audit Committee shall conduct a reasonable prior review and provide oversight of all transactions with related persons where (i) the amount involved exceeds $120,000 and (ii) any related person has a direct or indirect material interest, as well as any material changes to such transactions, for potential conflicts of interest. The policy further provides that in determining whether to approve each proposed transaction, the committee may consider the following, among other factors it deems appropriate:
| whether the terms of the transaction are reasonable and fair to Under Armour and on the same basis as would apply if the transaction did not involve a related person; |
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| whether the transaction would impair the independence of a non-management director; and |
| whether the transaction would present an improper conflict of interest, taking into account the size of the transaction, the materiality of a related persons direct or indirect interest in the transaction, and any other factors the committee deems relevant. |
Pursuant to Section 314.00 of the NYSE Listed Company Manual, the committee will prohibit a transaction with a related person if it determines such transaction to be inconsistent with the interests of Under Armour and its stockholders. To the extent our employment of an immediate family member of a director, executive officer or five percent stockholder is considered a transaction with a related person, the policy provides that the committee has determined to pre-approve such employment if the executive officer, director or five percent stockholder does not participate in decisions regarding the hiring, performance evaluation or compensation of the family member.
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The Audit Committee has selected PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, or PwC, to continue as our independent registered public accounting firm for the transition period from January 1, 2022 through March 31, 2022 and the fiscal year ending March 31, 2023. Representatives of PwC are expected to attend the Annual Meeting virtually. They will have an opportunity to make a statement if they so desire and they will respond to appropriate questions from stockholders.
Fees
The fees billed by PwC for 2021 and 2020 for services rendered to Under Armour were as follows:
2021 | 2020 | |||||||
Audit Fees |
$ | 2,638,792 | $ | 3,357,138 | ||||
Audit-Related Fees |
7,360 | 82,360 | ||||||
Tax Fees |
861,000 | 670,000 | ||||||
All Other Fees |
7,000 | 6,000 |
Audit Fees
Audit fees are for the audit of our annual consolidated financial statements and our internal control over financial reporting, reviews of our quarterly financial statements and services normally provided by the independent registered public accounting firm in connection with statutory and regulatory filings or engagements.
Audit-Related Fees
When paid, audit-related fees are generally for assurance and related services that are reasonably related to the performance of the audit or review of our consolidated financial statements and are not included under Audit Fees above. For 2021, audit related fees were primarily related to assistance with financial statement preparation related to certain of the companys subsidiaries. For 2020, audit-related fees were primarily related to our offering of convertible senior notes.
Tax Fees
When paid, tax fees are generally for tax planning and tax advice. For 2021, tax fees primarily included assistance with transfer pricing, consulting services in connection with our corporate structure and customs services. For 2020, tax fees primarily included assistance with customs services and consulting services in connection with our corporate structure.
All Other Fees
All other fees relate to a subscription to an accounting research tool.
Pre-Approval Policies and Procedures
As set forth in the Audit Committees Charter, the Audit Committee approves in advance all services to be performed by our independent registered public accounting firm, including all audit and permissible non-audit services. The committee has adopted a written policy for such approvals. The policy requires that the committee specifically pre-approve the terms of the annual audit services engagement and may pre-approve, for up to one year in advance, particular types of permissible audit-related, tax and other non-audit services. The policy also provides that the services shall be described in sufficient detail as to the scope of services, fee and fee structure, and the impact on auditor
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independence. The policy states that, in exercising its pre-approval authority, the committee may consider whether the independent registered public accounting firm is best positioned to provide the most effective and efficient service, for reasons such as familiarity with our business, people, culture, accounting systems, risk profiles and other factors, and whether the service might enhance our ability to manage or control risk or improve audit quality. The policy also provides that the committee be mindful of the relationship between fees for audit and non-audit services. Under the policy, the committee may delegate pre-approval authority to one or more of its members and any pre-approval decisions will be reported to the full committee at its next scheduled meeting. The committee has delegated this pre-approval authority to the Chairman of the committee.
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The primary role of the Audit Committee is oversight of matters relating to accounting, internal control, auditing, financial reporting, risk and legal and regulatory compliance. The Audit Committee oversees the audit and other services of our independent registered public accounting firm and is directly responsible for the appointment, independence, qualifications, compensation and oversight of the independent registered public accounting firm, which reports directly to the Audit Committee. Our management is responsible for the financial reporting process and preparation of quarterly and annual consolidated financial statements. Our independent registered public accounting firm is responsible for conducting audits and reviews of our consolidated financial statements and audits of our internal control over financial reporting.
The Audit Committee has reviewed and discussed our 2021 audited consolidated financial statements with management and with our independent registered public accounting firm. The Audit Committee also has discussed with the independent registered public accounting firm the matters required to be discussed by the applicable requirements of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (the PCAOB) and the SEC.
The Audit Committee also has received the written disclosures and the letter from our independent registered public accounting firm required by applicable requirements of the PCAOB regarding the independent registered public accounting firms communications with the Audit Committee concerning independence, and has discussed with the independent registered public accounting firm its independence.
Based on the review and discussions referred to above and subject to the limitations on its role and responsibilities, the Audit Committee recommended to the Board that the 2021 audited consolidated financial statements be included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 to be filed with the SEC. The Board of Directors approved this recommendation.
Douglas E. Coltharp, Chairman
Mohamed A. El-Erian
David W. Gibbs
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RATIFICATION OF APPOINTMENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
(PROPOSAL 3)
Under the rules and regulations of the SEC, the Audit Committee is directly responsible for the appointment of our independent registered public accounting firm. The Audit Committee has appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, or PwC, as our independent registered public accounting firm to audit our consolidated financial statements and our internal control over financial reporting for the transition period from January 1, 2022 through March 31, 2022 and the fiscal year ending March 31, 2023. PwC has served as our independent auditors since 2003. The services provided to us by PwC, along with the corresponding fees for 2021 and 2020, are described under the caption Independent Auditors in this Proxy Statement.
Stockholder ratification of the appointment of the independent registered public accounting firm is not required. We are asking stockholders to ratify the appointment because we believe it is a sound corporate governance practice. If our stockholders do not ratify the selection, the Audit Committee will consider whether or not to retain PwC, but may still retain them.
The ratification of the appointment of the independent registered public accounting firm requires the affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast at the Annual Meeting.
The Board of Directors recommends that you vote FOR the ratification of the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the transition period from January 1, 2022 through March 31, 2022 and the fiscal year ending March 31, 2023.
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Our Bylaws currently provide that in order for a stockholder to nominate a candidate for election as a director at our 2023 Annual Meeting or for a stockholder to propose business for consideration at that meeting, written notice complying with the requirements of our Bylaws generally must be delivered to the Secretary of Under Armour, Inc., at the companys principal executive office, not less than 120 days and no more than 150 days prior to the first anniversary of the date of mailing the notice for the preceding years annual meeting. However, if we delay or advance mailing notice of the 2023 Annual Meeting of Stockholders by more than 30 days from the date of the first anniversary of the notice mailing for the 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, then such stockholder notice of proposal must be delivered to the Secretary of Under Armour not less than 120 days nor more than 150 days prior to the date of mailing of the notice for the 2023 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (or by the tenth day following the day on which we disclose the mailing date of notice for the 2023 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, if that date is later).
As previously disclosed, our Board of Directors approved a change in our fiscal year end from December 31 to March 31, effective for the fiscal year beginning April 1, 2022. Following a three month-transition period (January 1, 2022 March 31, 2022), our fiscal year 2023 will run from April 1, 2022 through March 31, 2023. Consequently, there will be no fiscal year 2022. Due to the change in our fiscal year end, we expect that the advance mailing notice of the 2023 Annual Meeting of Stockholders will occur on June 30, 2023, which is more than 30 days delayed from the date of the first anniversary of the notice mailing for the 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. Therefore, a stockholder nomination or proposal intended to be considered at the 2023 Annual Meeting must be received by the Secretary after January 31, 2023, and no later than March 2, 2023. If a stockholder wishes to have their proposal considered for inclusion in the 2023 Proxy Statement, the Secretary must receive it no later than March 2, 2023. In accordance with Rule 14a-8(e)(2) under the 1934 Act, this deadline provides a reasonable time for stockholders to submit proposals to us before we begin to print and send our proxy materials for the 2023 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, the date of which will be changed by more than 30 days from the date of the 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders due to the change in our fiscal year end.
Stockholder proposals and director nominations to be included in our Proxy Statement must comply with our Bylaws, as well as applicable SEC rules (including SEC Rule 14a-8; see also Staff Legal Bulletin 14, which may be found at www.sec.gov).
In addition, to comply with the universal proxy rules (once effective), stockholders who intend to solicit proxies in support of director nominees other than the Companys nominees must provide notice that sets forth the information required by Rule 14a-19 under the Exchange Act no later than 60 calendar days prior to the date of our 2023 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (or by the tenth day following the day on which we disclose the date of our 2023 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, if that date is later).
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RECONCILIATION OF NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES
This Proxy Statement refers to adjusted operating income, which is considered a non-GAAP financial measure, as defined by SEC Regulation G. We have provided below a reconciliation of this measure to the most directly comparable financial measure calculated in accordance with GAAP. We believe this non-GAAP financial measure may be useful in evaluating our financial information and comparing year-over-year performance, and we have incorporated this measure into certain of our executive compensation programs. However, this measure should not be considered in isolation and should be viewed in addition to, and not as an alternative for, our reported results prepared in accordance with GAAP. In addition, our non-GAAP financial information may not be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies.
For purposes of this Proxy Statement, we define adjusted operating income as our reported income from operations, adjusted to exclude the impact of certain specified items for purposes of evaluating performance against compensation targets, including, as applicable, the impact of certain goodwill impairment charges, the impact of restructuring and other related charges, litigation related expenses, foreign exchange losses and charges related to the write-down of our accounts receivable asset due to customer bankruptcies. The following table provides a numerical reconciliation of adjusted operating income to income from operations (in millions):
Year Ended December 31, 2021 | ||||
Income from operations (GAAP) |
$ | 486 | ||
Add: Impact of 2020 Restructuring Plan |
$ | 41 | ||
Add: Other 2021 Adjustments |
$ | 2 | ||
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Adjusted operating income (Non-GAAP) |
$ | 529 |
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UNDER ARMOUR, INC.
ATTN: CORPORATE SECRETARY
1020 HULL STREET
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND 21230
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UNDER ARMOUR, INC. | For | Withhold | For All | To withhold authority to vote for any individual | ||||||||||||||||||
All | All | Except | nominee(s), mark For All Except and write the | |||||||||||||||||||
The Board of Directors recommends you vote FOR the | number(s) of the nominee(s) on the line below. | |||||||||||||||||||||
following: | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | |||||||||||||||||||
1. Election of Directors |
Nominees: | ||||||
01) | Kevin A. Plank | 06) | David W. Gibbs | |||
02) | Douglas E. Coltharp | 07) | Karen W. Katz | |||
03) | Jerri L. DeVard | 08) | Westley Moore | |||
04) | Mohamed A. El-Erian | 09) | Eric T. Olson | |||
05) | Patrik Frisk | 10) | Harvey L. Sanders |
The Board of Directors recommends you vote FOR proposals 2 and 3: | For | Against | Abstain | |||||
2. | To approve, by a non-binding advisory vote, the compensation of executives as disclosed in the Executive Compensation section of the proxy statement, including the Compensation Discussion and Analysis and tables. | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ||||
3. | Ratification of appointment of independent registered public accounting firm for the transition period from January 1, 2022 through March 31, 2022 and the fiscal year ending March 31, 2023. | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ||||
NOTE: Such other business as may properly come before the meeting or any adjournment thereof. |
Yes | No | |||||||
Please indicate if you plan to virtually attend this meeting. | ☐ | ☐ | ||||||
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Please sign exactly as your name(s) appear(s) hereon. When signing as attorney, executor, administrator, or other fiduciary, please give full title as such. Joint owners should each sign personally. All holders must sign. If a corporation or partnership, please sign in full corporate or partnership name by authorized officer. |
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D66257-P67115
UNDER ARMOUR, INC.
Annual Meeting of Stockholders
May 11, 2022 10:00 AM Eastern Time
This proxy is solicited by the Board of Directors
CLASS A COMMON STOCK
The undersigned hereby appoints Kevin A. Plank and John P. Stanton, and each or any of them, as proxies, with full powers of substitution, to represent and to vote all shares of the Class A Common Stock of Under Armour, Inc. which the undersigned is entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Under Armour, Inc. to be held on May 11, 2022, and at any adjournment or postponement thereof. The undersigned acknowledges receipt of notice of the meeting and the proxy statement.
This proxy will be voted as directed. If no direction is made, this proxy will be voted FOR all Nominees under Proposal 1, FOR Proposal 2 and FOR Proposal 3.
In their discretion, the proxies are authorized to vote upon such other business as may properly come before the meeting.
Continued and to be signed on reverse side
UNDER ARMOUR, INC.
ATTN: CORPORATE SECRETARY
1020 HULL STREET
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND 21230
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Before The Meeting - Go to www.proxyvote.com or scan the QR Barcode above
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During The Meeting - Go to www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/UAA2022
You may attend the meeting via the Internet and vote during the meeting. Have the information that is printed in the box marked by the arrow available and follow the instructions.
VOTE BY PHONE - 1-800-690-6903
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VOTE BY MAIL
Mark, sign and date your proxy card and return it in the postage-paid envelope we have provided or return it to Vote Processing, c/o Broadridge, 51 Mercedes Way, Edgewood, NY 11717.
TO VOTE, MARK BLOCKS BELOW IN BLUE OR BLACK INK AS FOLLOWS:
D66258-P67115 KEEP THIS PORTION FOR YOUR RECORDS
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THIS PROXY CARD IS VALID ONLY WHEN SIGNED AND DATED.
UNDER ARMOUR, INC. | For | Withhold | For All | To withhold authority to vote for any individual | ||||||||||||||||||
All | All | Except | nominee(s), mark For All Except and write the | |||||||||||||||||||
The Board of Directors recommends you vote FOR the | number(s) of the nominee(s) on the line below. | |||||||||||||||||||||
following: | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | |||||||||||||||||||
1. Election of Directors |
Nominees: | ||||||
01) | Kevin A. Plank | 06) | David W. Gibbs | |||
02) | Douglas E. Coltharp | 07) | Karen W. Katz | |||
03) | Jerri L. DeVard | 08) | Westley Moore | |||
04) | Mohamed A. El-Erian | 09) | Eric T. Olson | |||
05) | Patrik Frisk | 10) | Harvey L. Sanders |
The Board of Directors recommends you vote FOR proposals 2 and 3: | For | Against | Abstain | |||||
2. | To approve, by a non-binding advisory vote, the compensation of executives as disclosed in the Executive Compensation section of the proxy statement, including the Compensation Discussion and Analysis and tables. | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ||||
3. | Ratification of appointment of independent registered public accounting firm for the transition period from January 1, 2022 through March 31, 2022 and the fiscal year ending March 31, 2023. | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ||||
NOTE: Such other business as may properly come before the meeting or any adjournment thereof. |
Yes | No | |||||||
Please indicate if you plan to virtually attend this meeting. | ☐ | ☐ | ||||||
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Please sign exactly as your name(s) appear(s) hereon. When signing as attorney, executor, administrator, or other fiduciary, please give full title as such. Joint owners should each sign personally. All holders must sign. If a corporation or partnership, please sign in full corporate or partnership name by authorized officer. |
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Important Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials for the Annual Meeting:
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D66259-P67115
UNDER ARMOUR, INC.
Annual Meeting of Stockholders
May 11, 2022 10:00 AM Eastern Time
This proxy is solicited by the Board of Directors
CLASS B COMMON STOCK
The undersigned hereby appoints Kevin A. Plank and John P. Stanton, and each or any of them, as proxies, with full powers of substitution, to represent and to vote all shares of the Class B Common Stock of Under Armour, Inc. which the undersigned is entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Under Armour, Inc. to be held on May 11, 2022, and at any adjournment or postponement thereof. The undersigned acknowledges receipt of notice of the meeting and the proxy statement.
This proxy will be voted as directed. If no direction is made, this proxy will be voted FOR all Nominees under Proposal 1, FOR Proposal 2 and FOR Proposal 3.
In their discretion, the proxies are authorized to vote upon such other business as may properly come before the meeting.
Continued and to be signed on reverse side