Vail Banks (NASDAQ:VAIL)
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Vail Banks, Inc. Announces Grants of Restricted Stock and Stock
Options
VAIL, Colo., March 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Vail Banks, Inc. (NASDAQ:VAIL)
announced today that on March 21, 2005 it completed grants of restricted stock
to two of its executive officers and non-qualified stock options to two other
key employees, in connection with inducing their respective employments.
Gary S. Judd, the company's Chief Executive Officer and President, was granted
100,000 shares of restricted stock. Raymond E. Verlinde, its Principal
Financial and Accounting Officer and Senior Executive Vice President and Chief
Administrative Officer of the company's banking subsidiary, WestStar Bank, was
granted 30,000 shares of restricted stock. Each of these grants had been
provided for in connection with the company's employment of Mr. Judd and Mr.
Verlinde, on May 1, 2003 and August 18, 2004, respectively, and were
conditioned on the fulfillment of certain conditions as determined by the Board
of Directors. Mr. Judd and Mr. Verlinde had also been provided an inducement
grant of 30,000 shares of restricted stock on April 22, 2003 and 10,000 shares
of restricted stock on August 18, 2004, respectively. All of the restricted
stock granted to Mr. Judd and Mr. Verlinde vests in ten equal installments on
the first ten anniversaries of the grant date subject to achieving performance
measures as established by the Board of Directors.
The company granted non-qualified options to purchase 5,000 shares of common
stock to Terry A. Sherrill and non-qualified options to purchase 2,500 shares
of common stock to Les Sowitch. Ms. Sherrill was hired as the Senior Vice
President and Director of Internal Audit and Compliance of WestStar Bank. Mr.
Sowitch was hired as the bank's Senior Vice President. The stock options
granted to Ms. Sherrill and Mr. Sowitch vest in four equal installments on the
first four anniversaries of the grant date, March 21, 2005 in each case, and
have an exercise price of $13.30 per share, which is the closing price of the
company's common stock on the date of grant.
DATASOURCE: Vail Banks, Inc.
CONTACT: Lisa M. Dillon, Vice Chairman of Vail Banks, Inc.,
+1-970-476-2002,