SEC Form 4 · accession 0000911916-18-000053

FARO TECHNOLOGIES INC · FARO

Statement of changes in beneficial ownership, as filed. Original on EDGAR ↗

Reporting owner

Officer — President and CEO · Director

Period of report

Mar 15, 2018

Accepted (ET)

Mar 19, 2018 · 4:35 pm EDT

Rule 10b5-1 plan

unknown — predates the checkbox

Issuer CIK

0000917491

Table I — non-derivative securities

Security	Date	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Owned after	D/I	Nature of ownership
Common Stock	Mar 15, 2018	M	14,132	$29.98	A	38,478	D
Common Stock^F1	Mar 15, 2018	S	9,500	$59.987	D	28,978	D
Common Stock	Mar 16, 2018	M	3,269	$29.98	A	32,247	D
Common Stock^F1	Mar 16, 2018	S	2,200	$59.707	D	30,047	D
Common Stock^F2	holding	—	—		—	44,315	I	See footnote
Common Stock^F3	holding	—	—		—	110,000	I	See footnote

Security	Conv. / exercise price	Date	Code	Shares	A/D	Exercisable	Expires	Underlying	Underlying shares	Owned after	D/I
Employee Stock Option (right to buy)^F4	$29.98	Mar 15, 2018	M	14,132	D	—	Dec 4, 2022	Common Stock	14,132	45,868	D
Employee Stock Option (right to buy)^F4	$29.98	Mar 16, 2018	M	3,269	D	—	Dec 4, 2022	Common Stock	3,269	42,599	D

F1Sale of shares to cover the exercise price of, and to satisfy the estimated tax withholding obligations resulting from, the exercise of the underlying stock option.
F2Represents shares held by Xenon Research, Inc., a corporation in which the reporting person has investment control over the shares of the issuer owned by such corporation. The reporting person and his wife, Diana Raab, own all of the outstanding shares of Xenon Research, Inc.
F3Represents shares held by a revocable trust of which the reporting person is settlor and trustee.
F430,000 options vested on each of December 4, 2016 and December 4, 2017.