UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Form 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): December 31, 2023
Lyft, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
| Delaware | 001-38846 | 20-8809830 | ||||||||||||
| (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation) | (Commission File Number) | (IRS Employer Identification No.) | ||||||||||||
185 Berry Street, Suite 400
San Francisco, California 94107
(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)
(844) 250-2773
(Registrant's telephone number, including area code)
Not Applicable
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)
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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
| Title of each class | Trading Symbol | Name of each exchange on which registered | ||||||||||||
| Class A Common Stock, par value of $0.00001 per share | LYFT | Nasdaq Global Select Market | ||||||||||||
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (17 CFR §230.405) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (17 CFR §240.12b-2). Emerging growth company ☐
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Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
On December 31, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Lyft, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Jill Beggs to serve as a member of the Board, effective immediately. She will serve as a Class III director with a term of office expiring at the Company’s 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. Ms. Beggs has also been appointed as a member of the Audit Committee of the Board, effective immediately.
Since November 2021, Ms. Beggs has served as the Senior Vice President and Head of North America Reinsurance of Everest Group, Ltd., a leading global provider of reinsurance and insurance solutions. In her role, she leads treaty reinsurance for the US, Canada and Bermuda including property, casualty, surety, ocean marine, aviation, crop and mortgage lines of business. From April 2002 to November 2021, Ms. Beggs served in various leadership roles at Munich Re, a global provider of reinsurance, primary insurance and insurance-related risk solutions, most recently as President of Excess & Surplus Lines for Munich Re Specialty Insurance. She is a Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) and earned the Associate in Reinsurance (ARe) designation. She is a member of the Association of Professional Insurance Women (APIW) and the Central NJ Chapter of the CPCU. Ms. Beggs holds a B.A. in Management with a concentration in Finance and minors in Math and Spanish from Gettysburg College.
Ms. Beggs was selected to serve on the Board because of her significant operating experience in insurance.
There are no arrangements or understandings between Ms. Beggs and any other person pursuant to which Ms. Beggs was appointed to serve on the Board. There are no family relationships between Ms. Beggs and any other director or executive officer of the Company. There have been no transactions between Ms. Beggs and the Company since the beginning of the last fiscal year, and none are currently proposed, that would require disclosure under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.
Ms. Beggs will receive the standard compensation available to the Company’s non-employee directors, which is described in the Company’s Proxy Statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on May 1, 2023. In accordance with the Company’s customary practice, the Company will also enter into its standard form of indemnification agreement with Ms. Beggs, which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-229996) filed with the SEC on March 1, 2019.
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| LYFT, INC. | ||||||||
| Date: | January 3, 2024 | /s/ Kristin Sverchek | ||||||
| Kristin Sverchek | ||||||||
| President | ||||||||