ITEM 5.02 DEPARTURE OF DIRECTORS OR CERTAIN OFFICERS; ELECTION OF DIRECTORS;
APPOINTMENT OF CERTAIN OFFICERS; COMPENSATORY ARRANGEMENTS OF
CERTAIN OFFICERS
(d) Election of a new Director
On July 30, 2020, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of Carriage Services,
Inc. (the "Company") elected Dr. Achille Messac to serve as a Class II Director
until the Company's 2022 annual meeting of shareholders. Dr. Messac was
appointed to serve on the Audit Committee, the Compensation Committee and the
Corporate Governance Committee. There are no family relationships between Dr.
Messac and any directors or officers of the Company, and there have been no
transactions, nor are there any proposed transactions, between the Company and
Dr. Messac that would require disclosure pursuant to Item 404(a) of Regulation
S-K.
Dr. Messac previously served as the Dean of Engineering for Howard University,
as well as for Mississippi State University. Prior to his leadership roles at
those institutions, Dr. Messac served as a senior member of the technical staff
at Draper Laboratory where he contributed to work in critical areas of aerospace
engineering, including work for the Space Shuttle and Space Station. Dr. Messac
has also served on the Board and as Faculty Senate President for Renssselaer
Polytechnic Institute, as Department Chair and professor at Syracuse University,
as professor at Northeastern University, and has served on the Board of the
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Dr. Messac received his BS,
MS and PhD from MIT in aerospace engineering and is a Fellow of the American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, The American Society of Mechanical
Engineering, and The American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Concurrently with the election, the Board granted Dr. Messac 1,082 shares of the
Company's common stock under the Company's Director Compensation Policy, which
was valued at approximately $25,000 based on the closing price on July 30, 2020.
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