FDBK Feedback Plc

Feedback plc

Surrender and grant of options and PDMR dealings

Feedback plc (AIM: FDBK, "Feedback" or the "Company"), the clinical infrastructure specialist company, announces changes to its share option schemes in order to appropriately incentivise and retain talent, as well as to ensure their interests are aligned with that of the Company and its shareholders, being the surrender of options over ordinary shares of 1p each in the capital Company ("Ordinary Shares") and the concurrent grant of new options over Ordinary Shares under the Company's EMI and Non tax-advantaged share option Schemes (the "Options"). This includes the surrender of options by, and the grant of Options to, Executive Directors and persons discharging managerial responsibilities (PDMRs) of the Company.

The Board recognises the importance of share options to appropriately incentivise and retain talent, as well as to ensure their interests are aligned with that of the Company and its shareholders. Following a review, the Remuneration Committee of the Company recommended that the terms of the existing share option grants for employees and directors were no longer appropriate, and the Board adopted in full its recommendations that they should be replaced to re-align grants under the share option schemes with the current strategic focus of the Company.

Accordingly, 976,420 share options shall be surrendered for nominal consideration by mutual agreement, immediately prior to the grant of new Options as detailed below.

Grant of Options

3,505,169 Options are being granted to the Executive Directors and other PDMRs as set out below (being 89.4 percent. of the new Options granted). The Options will vest in four equal tranches, conditional on achieving certain targets as follows:

1.   25% vest immediately - to create a retention mechanism from grant;

2.   25% vest on Reported Revenue of £8.0m;

3.   25% vest on Reported Revenue of £12.0m; and

4.   25% vest on Reported Revenue of £20.0m.

"Reported Revenue" is either:

·      a year's revenue reported in the full year audited financial statements; or

·      12 months' revenue being H2 of the last full year audited financial statements plus H1 of the last published interim financial statements.

Options being granted to the Executive Directors and PDMRs which are subject to the vesting conditions above:

* Employed by Feedback Medical Limited, a 100% subsidiary of Feedback plc.

Non tax-advantaged Options granted on 14/01/2025 to the Executive Directors and PDMRs above have an exercise price of 1 pence per share, being the nominal value per Ordinary Share reflecting the non-tax-advantaged nature of these Options.

EMI Options granted on 14/01/2025 to the Executive Directors and PDMRs above have an exercise price of 20.8 pence per share, being equal to the closing share price on the last trading day before the grant and representing a premium of 4% to the price at which the Company last completed an equity fundraise in November 2024 (20 pence).

EMI Options awarded with a grant date of 25/02/2025 to the Executive Directors and PDMRs above will have an exercise price being the higher of 20 pence per share or the closing share price on the last trading day before such grant.

In addition, Rory Shaw, Non-Executive Chairman and PDMR, has been granted 100,000 Non tax-Advantaged Options on 14/01/2025 primarily for retention purposes. Alongside the Executive management team, Rory has key relationships with NHS bodies which are potential customers for the Company's products. These Non tax-Advantaged Options have an exercise price of 20 pence and are subject to time-based vesting conditions only with the options vesting in equal monthly tranches over three years. Following the grant of Options, Rory Shaw will hold a total of 187,000 options, including 87,000 of options previously awarded with exercise prices ranging from 140 - 372 pence.

In addition, 315,700 Options were granted to 16 other employees on 14/01/2025, with the same exercise price and vesting conditions as the Executive Directors and PDMRs as set out above.

The Options are exercisable for a period of 5 years from the vesting date.

Following the surrender of existing options and the grant of new Options, the Company will have a total of 4,010,875 options to subscribe for ordinary shares in the Company in issue, representing 9.2% of the Company's issued share capital at the date of this announcement.

Further information on Feedback and its products can be found on the Company's website: https://feedbackmedical.com.

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About Feedback

Feedback plc helps clinical teams to make better decisions faster for patients. We design products that enhance clinician access to patient data and to their colleagues. Our unique approach centres around individual patient episodes, into which we pull relevant clinical data from hospital systems and around which we build remote clinical teams for collaboration. As a result, we produce a digital infrastructure that makes patient data available to clinicians in multiple settings, in a format that enables them to meaningfully interact with it, providing flexibility to clinicians and free movement of patients between provider settings - clinicians can practice from anywhere and patients can attend any care provider for treatment, with greater connectivity across organisations.

Our products Bleepa® and CareLocker® work together to deliver unparalleled value to our customers. Bleepa® is our application layer and sits on top of CareLocker® as our data layer. Bleepa® is a clinician facing platform that displays clinical results from a patient's CareLocker® at a certified and regulated quality, that is suitable for clinical use and enables dialogue on a patient-by-patient basis with colleagues through a secure, auditable chat interface that links back to the patient medical record. The CareLocker® data storage model is built around the patient. Our vision is one where relevant clinical data is always available to the patient as well as to any care setting that they may attend - a federated data architecture with the patient as the tenant.  

The Company has a number of growth opportunities domestically and internationally across a range of markets including the NHS and private healthcare providers and its highly scalable Software as a Service ("SaaS")-based model is expected to provide increasing levels of revenue visibility as the Company grows its customer base.

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