16 April 2024
ETHERNITY NETWORKS LTD.
("Ethernity" or the "Company")
Result of Adjourned General Meeting
Appointment of directors
Ethernity Networks (AIM: ENET.L; OTCMKTS: ENETF), a
leading supplier of data processing and fibre access semiconductor
technology for networking appliances, announces that, further to
the Company's announcement on 9 April 2024, the adjourned general
meeting of the Company was held earlier today, and all resolutions
were duly passed on a poll. The voting results are set out in
Appendix A at the end of this announcement.
Proposed grant of
options
At the general meeting, resolutions were passed to
approve the grant of 17,377,225 options to certain directors of the
Company, details of which were announced on 1 March 2024. The
options will be granted once the Company is no longer in a closed
period, following the publication of the Company's annual report
and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2023. A further
announcement will be made at that time.
Appointment of
directors
Following the passing of the resolutions, Julie
Kunstler and Aviva Banczewski have been appointed to the Board of
Directors of the Company as External Non-Executive Directors.
Biographies
of the directors
Julie Kunstler has over 30 years' experience in
the communications components, equipment, and software industry,
having served as an executive, venture-fund investor, analyst, and
board member. Most recently, Julie held the position of Chief
Analyst - Broadband Access Intelligence Service for Omdia (a
division of Informa Tech), covering the fixed broadband access
industry ecosystem. Prior to joining Omdia, Julie served as VP
Business Development for Teknovus, a venture-backed broadband
access PON (Passive Optical Network) chip start-up, where she
assisted with fundraising, corporate strategy, OEM agreements, and
its acquisition by Broadcom.
Aviva Banczewski has over 30 years of varied
finance experience including audit, consulting, regulatory and
compliance, business and strategic planning and acquisition due
diligence assignments. She started her career working for Andersen
in both Australia and then Israel for a total of 15 years. Since
then, she has held both finance and investor relations roles in
publicly traded companies, including ICL Group Ltd, which is listed
on the NYSE the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange ("TASE") and Evogene Ltd, which is listed
on Nasdaq and TASE. She currently acts as Director of Investor
Relations for Pluri, Inc, a Nasdaq and TASE listed company. Aviva
has also been a board member of the Israel Australia Chamber of
Commerce since November 2022.
Regulatory
disclosures
As required under Schedule Two, paragraph (g) of the
AIM Rules for Companies, further disclosures on Julie Kunstler and
Aviva Banczewski are as follows:
Julie Anne Kunstler (formerly Katzen) is 68
years old. There is no further information on Julie
Kunstler required to be disclosed under Schedule Two,
paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules for Companies.
Aviva Banczewski, aged 57, holds the
following directorships and/or partnerships in the past five
years:
Current
directorships and/or partnerships:
·
Diagnosis and Rehabilitation Clinic - Functional
Capacity Evaluation and Whiplash Center Ltd
·
Israel-Australia, New Zealand & Oceania
Chamber of Commerce (RA) (Israel)
There is no further information on Aviva
Banczewski required to be disclosed under Schedule
Two, paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules for Companies.
For further
information, please contact:
Ethernity Networks
Ltd
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Tel: +972 3 748 9846
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David Levi, Chief Executive Officer
Ayala Deutsch, Chief Financial Officer
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Allenby Capital
Limited (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker)
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Tel: +44 (0)20 3328 5656
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James Reeve / Piers Shimwell (Corporate Finance)
Amrit Nahal / Stefano Aquilino (Sales and Corporate
Broking)
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CMC Markets UK
plc (Joint Broker)
Douglas Crippen
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Tel: +44 (0)20 3003 8632
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Peterhouse Capital
Limited (Joint Broker)
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Tel: +44 (0)20 7562 0930
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Lucy Williams / Duncan Vasey / Eran Zucker
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About Ethernity
(www.ethernitynet.com)
Ethernity Networks (AIM: ENET.L OTCMKTS: ENETF)
provides innovative, comprehensive networking and security
solutions on programmable hardware that increase telco/cloud
network infrastructure capacity. Ethernity's semiconductor logic
offers data processing functionality for different networking
applications, innovative patented wireless access technology, and
fibre access media controllers, all equipped with control software
with a rich set of networking features. Ethernity's solutions
quickly adapt to customers' changing needs, improving
time-to-market, and facilitating the deployment of 5G over wireless
and fibre infrastructure.
Appendix
A
Resolution
|
Votes For
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Votes Against
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%
For
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%
Against
|
Votes Withheld
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1. Appointment of Aviva
Banczewski as External Director
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44,799,632
|
430,414
|
99.05%
|
0.95%
|
1,244,495
|
2. Appointment of Julie
Kunstler as External Director
|
44,799,632
|
430,414
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99.05%
|
0.95%
|
1,244,495
|
3. Disapplication of
pre-emption rights on equity issues for cash
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42,147,733
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3,082,313
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93.19%
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6.81%
|
1,244,495
|
4. Approval of Options award
to David Levi(1)
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23,850,567
|
430,414
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98.23%
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1.77%
|
1,244,495
|
5. Approval of Options award
to Shavit Baruch
|
44,799,632
|
430,414
|
99.05%
|
0.95%
|
1,244,495
|
6. Approval of Options award
to Ayala Deutsch
|
42,898,439
|
2,331,607
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94.85%
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5.15%
|
1,244,495
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7. Approval of Options award
to Joseph Albagli
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44,799,632
|
430,414
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99.05%
|
0.95%
|
1,244,495
|
8. Approval of Amendments to
the Articles Regarding Quorum for Shareholder Meetings
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44,397,593
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430,414
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99.04%
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0.96%
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1,646,534
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(1) Votes exclude personal
interest shares