- Urges Shareholders to Vote on the WHITE proxy card “FOR” Green Dot’s Three Experienced and Highly-Qualified Nominees -
- Six-Step Plan Already Creating Shareholder Value -
- Dissident’s Board Slate of Unsuitable Candidates Puts Green Dot’s Plan and Shareholder Value at Significant Risk -
The presentation highlights:
“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are
prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore,
is education.”
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Additionally, Green Dot further wishes to address some of the commentary
contained in Harvest’s letter to shareholders, dated
1. Green Dot understands that
2. Mr. Osher claims that he has thus far kept his campaign “fact based” and not “personal”. Yet any observer can conclude that the majority of Harvest’s campaign has been focused on undermining the Board’s and Mr. Streit’s reputation and accomplishments with all manner of propaganda and innuendo. How can Mr. Osher credibly say that his campaign has not contained any personal attacks?
3. Harvest reiterated that Green Dot has not attempted to meaningfully engage in good faith. Yet, Harvest and Mr. Osher were provided unlimited access to Management, the Board and independent directors, including hundreds of meetings, phone calls and emails, yet Harvest discontinued private engagement and launched a disruptive public campaign, dismissed multiple settlement proposals and has stated in their own proxy materials that anything short of adopting Harvest’s full agenda is unacceptable. How can Mr. Osher credibly suggest Green Dot has not engaged in good faith?
4. Mr. Osher says that he is a long-term holder interested in increasing the Company’s share price. Yet his behavior is far more akin to an aggressive short seller seeking to denigrate the Company’s business plans and jeopardize its business relationships.
a. Does Mr. Osher really believe that signing yet another deal with
b. Does Mr. Osher really believe that the Company’s strong Q1
performance is because we raised fees on a small segment of Green Dot
brand account holders? As described on the Company’s earnings call, the
strong year-over-year portfolio performance was driven by increases in
spend that drives interchange, gross dollar value that drives monthly
fees and growth in the Company’s reload business, which drives reload
fees. Fee changes which Mr. Osher refers to in his letter dated
c. When taken in totality, it seems clear that investors should again question Harvest’s motives. Mr. Osher’s odd choice of proposed directors, Harvest’s ongoing vicious personal attacks against the Board and Mr. Streit and Harvest’s attacks on Green Dot’s business plans and Green Dot’s relationship with key business partners, while continuing to denigrate Green Dot’s future prospects, seems like the tactics of a short seller trying to destroy a company’s stock price; rather than a long-term shareholder looking to drive value for other long shareholders. Should you be suspicious of Harvest’s motives?
Green Dot Management and Board is demonstrating significant progress
through the execution of its Six-Step Plan, which is already creating
meaningful shareholder value – Green Dot’s share price has increased
~39% since management first announced its new product initiatives on
Green Dot Shareholders are reminded that their vote is extremely
important. Green Dot strongly recommends that shareholders vote on the WHITE
proxy card “FOR” its highly-qualified and experienced director nominees:
About Green Dot
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release may be deemed to contain forward-looking statements,
which are subject to the safe harbor provisions of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ
materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements
contained in this press release. The potential risks and uncertainties
that could cause actual results to differ from those projected include,
among other things, the timing and impact of revenue growth activities,
the Company's dependence on revenues derived from Walmart and three
other retail distributors, impact of competition, the Company's reliance
on retail distributors for the promotion of its products and services,
demand for the Company's new and existing products and services,
continued and improving returns from the Company's investments in new
growth initiatives, potential difficulties in integrating operations of
acquired entities and acquired technologies, the Company's ability to
operate in a highly regulated environment, changes to existing laws or
regulations affecting the Company's operating methods or economics, the
Company's reliance on third-party vendors, changes in credit card
association or other network rules or standards, changes in card
association and debit network fees or products or interchange rates,
instances of fraud developments in the prepaid financial services
industry that impact prepaid debit card usage generally, business
interruption or systems failure, and the Company's involvement
litigation or investigations. These and other risks are discussed in
greater detail in the Company's
Important Additional Information
The Company has filed a definitive proxy statement (the “Proxy
Statement”) and accompanying WHITE proxy card with the
The Company, its directors and certain of its executive officers will be
participants in the solicitation of proxies from stockholders in respect
of the 2016 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. Information regarding the
names of the Company’s directors and executive officers and their
respective interests in the Company by security holdings or otherwise is
set forth in the
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