Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Principal Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Principal Officers.

As previously disclosed, on January 29, 2020, Jose Garcia resigned as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. (the "Company") and Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. ("Spirit"), the Company's wholly owned subsidiary.

On January 31, 2020, the Company, Spirit and Mr. Garcia entered into an Agreement and General Release (the "Agreement"). Under the terms of the Agreement and in consideration of Mr. Garcia's future cooperation, release of claims, and compliance with certain obligations, including confidentiality, non-competition, non-solicitation, and non-disparagement covenants, Mr. Garcia will receive separation payments comprised of the following: (i) a sum of $615,000, which is equal to one year of Mr. Garcia's annual base salary applicable on the date of Mr. Garcia's resignation; (ii) a payment of Mr. Garcia's expected award for 2019 pursuant to the Short-Term Incentive Program (the "STIP") under the 2014 Omnibus Plan, as amended (the "Omnibus Plan"), based on an assumed score of 1.0; (iii) a lump sum of $20,000 for COBRA coverage over a 12 month period; (iv) full vesting with respect to 10,861 shares underlying the Initial Sign-On Award, as such term is defined in Mr. Garcia's Employment Agreement (the "Employment Agreement"), pursuant to the Company's Long-Term Incentive Plan under the Omnibus Plan (the "LTIP"), 5,880 shares of the time-based restricted stock award granted under the LTIP in November 2019, and 66 2/3%, or 5,344 shares, of the time-based restricted stock award granted under the LTIP in January 2019; (v) a sum of $500,000 in lieu of the Subsequent Sign-On award, as such term is defined in the Employment Agreement; (vi) a sum of $409,590 in lieu of receiving any portion of the annual 2020 LTIP awards; (vii) reimbursement of reasonable and documented career transition services through July 31, 2020; and (viii) continued vesting (upon the contractual vesting date) with respect to 66 2/3%, or 3,122 shares (based on target performance), of the performance-based restricted stock awards granted under the LTIP in January 2019, subject to the Company's certification of the satisfaction of applicable performance criteria.

The foregoing description of the Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Agreement, which is filed as an exhibit hereto.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.





(d) Exhibits.



  Exhibit No.                               Description

    10.1          Agreement and General Release with Jose Garcia.

  104           Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL
                document).

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