CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
−Removed: Management’s
−Removed: Report on Disclosure Controls and Procedures
−Removed: is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act
−Removed: Rule 13a-15(f)).
−Removed: The Company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance
−Removed: regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance
−Removed: with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
−Removed: Because of its inherent limitations, internal control
−Removed: over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements.
−Removed: Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future
−Removed: periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance
−Removed: with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
−Removed: Under the supervision and with the participation of management, including the
−Removed: Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, the Company conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of the Company’s
−Removed: internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2020 using the criteria established in “Internal Control -
−Removed: Integrated Framework”
−Removed: issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (“COSO”).
−Removed: material weakness is a deficiency, or combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting, such that there
−Removed: is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of the Company’s annual or interim financial statements will not
−Removed: be prevented or detected on a timely basis.
−Removed: In its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting
−Removed: as of December 31, 2020, the Company determined that there were control deficiencies that constituted material weaknesses, as
−Removed: described below.
−Removed: have an Audit Committee, but it does not currently contain an independent financial expert member.
−Removed: While not being
−Removed: legally obligated to have an audit committee, it is management’s view that such a committee, including a financial expert
−Removed: member, is an utmost important entity level control over the Company’s financial statement.
−Removed: Although we have an Audit
−Removed: Committee, it does not currently include a member that is both a financial expert and considered to be independent of management
−Removed: to provide the necessary oversight over management’s activities.
−Removed: have inadequate cash controls.
−Removed: Although we have separated cash handling and accounting functions, we do not require deal signature
−Removed: on the Company’s bank accounts.
−Removed: of December 31, 2020, the Company retains copies of all financial data and material agreements.
−Removed: Although the financial data
−Removed: are backed up in the cloud, the rest of the Company’s material agreements may not be.
−Removed: In the event of theft, misplacement,
−Removed: or loss due to fire or other unmitigated factors, it may not be possible for the Company to retain all of its material financial
−Removed: data and agreements.
−Removed: the Company concluded that these control deficiencies resulted in a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of the
−Removed: annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis by the company’s internal controls.
−Removed: a result of the material weaknesses described above, management has concluded that the Company did not maintain effective internal
−Removed: control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2020, based on criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework
−Removed: issued by COSO.
+Added: of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
+Added: maintain disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act).
+Added: Disclosure controls and procedures
+Added: refer to controls and other procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in the reports we file or submit
+Added: under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the rules and forms of the
+Added: SEC and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our chief executive officer and chief financial
+Added: officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
+Added: required by Rule 13a-15(e) of the Exchange Act, our management has carried out an evaluation, with the participation and under the supervision
+Added: of our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls
+Added: and procedures, as of December 31, 2021.
+Added: Based upon, and as of the date of this evaluation, our chief executive officer and chief financial
+Added: officer determined that our disclosure controls and procedures were sufficient.
+Added: Annual Report on Internal Controls over Financial Reporting
+Added: is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rule 13a-15(f)).
+Added: The Company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability
+Added: of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with accounting principles generally
+Added: accepted in the United States of America.
+Added: Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent
+Added: or detect misstatements.
+Added: Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls
+Added: may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
+Added: Under the supervision and with the participation of management, including the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, the
+Added: Company conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December
+Added: 31, 2021 using the criteria established in “Internal Control - Integrated Framework” issued by the Committee of Sponsoring
+Added: Organizations of the Treadway Commission (“COSO”).
+Added: material weakness is a deficiency, or combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting, such that there is a
+Added: reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of the Company’s annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented
+Added: or detected on a timely basis.
+Added: In its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting as of December 31,
+Added: 2021, the Company determined that there were no control deficiencies that constituted material weaknesses.
+Added: Control deficiencies that
+Added: existed in 2020 have been rectified.
+Added: The Company now has an independent financial expert on its Audit Committee;
+Added: and the Company backs
+Added: up all financial data and material agreements in the cloud so that in the event of theft, misplacement, or loss due to fire or other
+Added: unmitigated factors, the Company should still retain all of its material financial data and agreements.
+Added: a result, management has concluded that the Company maintains effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31,
+Added: 2021, based on criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by COSO.
+Added: weaknesses in our disclosure controls and procedures may be identified in the future.
+Added: Should we discover such conditions, we intend to
+Added: remediate them as soon as practicable.
+Added: We are committed to taking appropriate steps for remediation, as needed.
+Added: internal control systems, no matter how well designed, have inherent limitations.
+Added: Therefore, even those systems determined to be effective
+Added: can provide only reasonable assurance with respect to financial statement preparation and presentation.
+Added: Also, projections of any evaluation
+Added: of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that
+Added: the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
−Removed: has been no change in our internal control over financial reporting identified in connection with our evaluation we conducted
−Removed: of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2020, that occurred during our fourth
−Removed: fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial
−Removed: annual report does not include an attestation report of the Company’s registered public accounting firm regarding internal
−Removed: control over financial reporting.
−Removed: Management’s report was not subject to attestation by the Company’s registered public
−Removed: accounting firm pursuant to temporary rules of the SEC that permit the Company to provide only management’s report in this
−Removed: annual report.
+Added: has been a change in our internal control over financial reporting identified in connection with our evaluation we conducted of the effectiveness
+Added: of our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2020., that occurred during our fiscal year 2021 that has materially
+Added: affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: The Company now has an independent
+Added: financial expert on its Audit Committee, and the Company now backs up all financial data and material agreements in the cloud so that
+Added: in the event of theft, misplacement, or loss due to fire or other unmitigated factors, the Company should still retain all of its material
+Added: financial data and agreements.
+Added: In addition, the Company now has multiple persons reviewing and reconciling the bank account and our financial
+Added: annual report does not include an attestation report of the Company’s registered public accounting firm regarding internal control
+Added: over financial reporting.
+Added: Management’s report was not subject to attestation by the Company’s registered public accounting
+Added: firm pursuant to temporary rules of the SEC that permit the Company to provide only management’s report in this annual report.
– DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Executive Officers and Significant Employees
−Removed: following table sets forth information with respect to the Company’s directors and executive officers.
−Removed: Other than these
−Removed: persons, there are no significant employees.
−Removed: Executive Officer and Chairman
−Removed: Financial Officer and Director
−Removed: and Secretary
−Removed: Slager became a director in October 2016, the Chief Technology Officer on April 1, 2017, the CEO on July 6, 2018, and Chairman
−Removed: on February 26, 2019.
−Removed: Slager is a seasoned business professional with significant experience in corporate finance, venture
−Removed: capital, and entrepreneurship.
+Added: following table sets forth information with respect to the Company’s directors and executive officers.
+Added: Benjamin Slager
+Added: Chief Executive
+Added: Officer and Chairman
+Added: Anthony Santelli
+Added: Chief Financial Officer and
+Added: Director and Secretary
+Added: Slager became a director in October 2016, the Chief Technology Officer on April 1, 2017, the CEO on July 6, 2018, and Chairman on
+Added: February 26, 2019.
+Added: Slager is a seasoned business professional with significant experience in corporate finance, venture capital,
+Added: and entrepreneurship.
He has a proven record in founding, developing and selling high tech companies.
−Removed: He is the inventor
−Removed: of the CTS 2.0 technology.
+Added: He is the inventor of the CTS 2.0
Slager began his career in 1987 as a financial analyst with a venture capital firm, NesBic Holding BV, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
−Removed: He also served as a market maker on the European Option Exchange in Amsterdam, while working for International Option Investment
−Removed: BV, in Amsterdam.
−Removed: Slager turned his focus to sales and marketing while serving as a sales engineer and international
−Removed: sales director for NesBic Holding BV, in Utrecht.
−Removed: Slager began a 19-year career as an entrepreneur and corporate
−Removed: CEO when he co-founded Microidentt Group AG, in Erfurt, Germany.
−Removed: Microidentt’s core business focus was on manufacturing,
−Removed: developing, marketing, and sales of smartcards, smartcard related products and industry identification transponders worldwide.
−Removed: Slager received his Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Technical College of Chemical Engineering in Hilversum, the
−Removed: Netherlands, in 1985.
−Removed: He also received a degree in Business Administration from Nijenrode University for Business Administration
−Removed: The Company’s board determined that Mr.
−Removed: Slager is well-qualified to serve in senior management and member of the
−Removed: board of directors.
−Removed: He is not a director of any other public company.
−Removed: Santelli II became a director on May 4, 2018, the Chair of the Audit Committee on May 11, 2018, the Chief Operating Officer
+Added: also served as a market maker on the European Option Exchange in Amsterdam, while working for International Option Investment BV, in
+Added: Slager turned his focus to sales and marketing while serving as a sales engineer and international sales director
+Added: for ASM Pacific technologies in the Netherlands.
+Added: Slager began a 28-year career as a serial entrepreneur in starting, developing,
+Added: and selling technically innovative companies.
+Added: He was the Founder and CEO of NedCard and MicroIdentt a company assembling chips for bank
+Added: cards and other electronic identification carriers.
+Added: He started and grew that company from zero to a $100 million revenue base with affiliates
+Added: in several countries.
+Added: Further Ben was founder and CEO of SolarExcel BV, which had a patented solution to increase solar cell performance.
+Added: He was also the CEO of Novameer BV, a company with high tech patented fibers.
+Added: Ben sold off all of these companies to large multinationals.
+Added: He has 20 families of patents summing to 108 in his name, divided over different territories in the world, including the CTS 2.0 process
+Added: that is owned by Blue Biofuels.
+Added: Slager received his Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Technical College of Chemical Engineering in Hilversum, the Netherlands,
+Added: He also received a degree in Business Administration from Nijenrode University for Business Administration in 1987.
+Added: The Company’s
+Added: board determined that Mr.
+Added: Slager is well-qualified to serve in senior management and member of the board of directors through his experience
+Added: developing our technology and his prior experience founding, developing and selling technology companies.
+Added: He is not a director of any
+Added: other public company
+Added: Santelli II became a director on May 4, 2018, the Chair of the Audit Committee on May 11, 2018, until 2020, the Chief Operating Officer
on October 20, 2018, and the CFO on February 1, 2020.
−Removed: His financial expertise along with his experience restructuring and building
−Removed: companies is the reason he was selected to be a board member and senior executive.
−Removed: Dr Santelli served as a money manager for 20
−Removed: years as the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of AES Capital, a hybrid venture capital-hedge fund management company.
−Removed: is an entrepreneur who has started, helped finance, or turnaround, various private companies and micro-cap publicly traded companies
−Removed: concentrating in the mining, energy and alternative energy fields.
−Removed: He has served in senior management and board positions at various
−Removed: private and micro-cap companies, although he has not served on the board of any other public company in the past five years.
−Removed: previously was employed by Andersen Consulting, now known as Accenture, rising to the level of a Senior Management Systems Consultant
−Removed: before going to graduate school.
+Added: His financial expertise along with his experience restructuring and building companies
+Added: is the reason he was selected to be a board member and senior executive.
+Added: Santelli served as a money manager for 20 years as the Founder
+Added: and Chief Executive Officer of AES Capital, a hybrid venture capital-hedge fund management company.
+Added: Santelli is an entrepreneur who
+Added: has started, helped finance, or turnaround, various private companies and micro-cap publicly traded companies concentrating in the mining,
+Added: energy and alternative energy fields.
+Added: He has served in senior management and board positions at various private and micro-cap companies,
+Added: although he has not served on the board of any other public company in the past five years.
+Added: He previously was employed by Andersen Consulting,
+Added: now known as Accenture, rising to the level of a Senior Management Systems Consultant before going to graduate school.
Santelli received his M.A.
−Removed: in Economics from George Mason University, did graduate studies in economics and finance
−Removed: at NYU, and has a B.S.
+Added: in Economics from George Mason University, did graduate studies in economics and finance at NYU,
+Added: and has a B.S.
in Industrial Engineering from Cornell University.
−Removed: He had taught economics and finance at Union College
−Removed: and George Mason University prior to creating AES Capital.
+Added: He had taught economics and finance at Union College and George Mason
+Added: University prior to creating AES Capital.
He is not a director of any other public company.
F Sills became a director of the Company in July 2015.
−Removed: Sills has worked for the Defense Leadership Forum since 2014 as
−Removed: National Program Director for the Defense Contracting Summit Conferences.
−Removed: He has extensive experience planning and directing international
−Removed: industrial, infrastructure, environmental and energy initiatives, having served as a member of the Danube Task Force, the governing
−Removed: council that ran the Danube Basin Environmental Restoration Program led by the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction
−Removed: & Development and the UN Development Program, involving 13 countries from Austria to Moldova.
+Added: Sills has worked for the Defense Leadership Forum since 2014 as National
+Added: Program Director for the Defense Contracting Summit Conferences.
+Added: He has extensive experience planning and directing international industrial,
+Added: infrastructure, environmental and energy initiatives, having served as a member of the Danube Task Force, the governing council that
+Added: ran the Danube Basin Environmental Restoration Program led by the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development
+Added: and the UN Development Program, involving 13 countries from Austria to Moldova.
He also served on the Japan-U.S.
−Removed: Joint Fund for Social & Economic Development in Central/Eastern Europe, the Helsinki Commission focused on the environmental
−Removed: clean-up of the Baltic Sea, the Kaliningrad Defense Conversion Initiative, and the NGO Delegation to NAFTA, where he helped draft
−Removed: the Environmental Supplements.
−Removed: Sills was responsible for securing major funding support for the Smithsonian Institute’s
−Removed: biodiversity preservation/cancer cure research program in Brazil’s Amazon region;
−Removed: for the Sassari, Sardinia symposium on
−Removed: ozone depletion organized by the International Council of Scientific Unions;
−Removed: and for the White House Presidential Awards program
−Removed: sponsored by the President’s Council on Sustainable Development.
+Added: Joint Fund for Social
+Added: & Economic Development in Central/Eastern Europe, the Helsinki Commission focused on the environmental clean-up of the Baltic Sea,
+Added: the Kaliningrad Defense Conversion Initiative, and the NGO Delegation to NAFTA, where he helped draft the Environmental Supplements.
+Added: Sills was responsible for securing major funding support for the Smithsonian Institute’s biodiversity preservation/cancer cure
+Added: research program in Brazil’s Amazon region;
+Added: for the Sassari, Sardinia symposium on ozone depletion organized by the International
+Added: Council of Scientific Unions;
+Added: and for the White House Presidential Awards program sponsored by the President’s Council on Sustainable
He is not a director of any other public company.
−Removed: Sills has been engaged in the renewable energy sector since the 1980’s, when he led the Martin Marietta Aerospace (now Lockheed
−Removed: Martin) team that won the contract for and installed the world’s largest (at that time) solar photovoltaic energy installation,
+Added: Sills has been engaged in the renewable energy sector since the 1980’s, when he led the Martin Marietta Aerospace (now Lockheed
+Added: Martin) team that won the contract for and installed the world’s largest (at that time) solar photovoltaic energy installation,
under a pilot program co-funded by the U.S.
and Saudi Arabian Governments;
−Removed: researched and wrote a worldwide survey of renewable
−Removed: energy technologies and commercialization opportunities;
+Added: researched and wrote a worldwide survey of renewable energy
+Added: technologies and commercialization opportunities;
and testified before Congress on the need for pro-active U.S.
−Removed: support for advanced renewable energy R&D and demonstration programs.
−Removed: Currently, he serves on both the Defense & Security
−Removed: Advisory Committee and the International Advisory Committee for the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE);
−Removed: and serves as
−Removed: a Board Member and Advisor on Energy and Environment for the Eurasia Center/Eurasian Business Coalition, where he has planned
−Removed: and moderated conferences on “Doing Business with the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa)”, and
−Removed: energy and infrastructure investment opportunities associated with the “New Silk Road”.
−Removed: has extensive experience in Government Contracting, and an advocate for Small Business access to Federal and Military contracting
−Removed: opportunities, which is the reason he was chosen to be a director.
−Removed: (He is not a director of any other public company.) He has
−Removed: served as a member of the U.S.
−Removed: Chamber of Commerce’s Small Business Council, and an observer to the White House sponsored
−Removed: Inter-Agency Task Force on Veterans Business Development.
−Removed: He is President of FED/Contracting LLC, a consultancy that assists Small
−Removed: Businesses in partnering with Prime Contractors, and helps the Prime Contractors qualify Veteran and Minority vendors as teammates
−Removed: for project opportunities with mandated Diversity Supplier content.
+Added: Government support for
+Added: advanced renewable energy R&D and demonstration programs.
+Added: Currently, he serves on both the Defense & Security Advisory Committee
+Added: and the International Advisory Committee for the American Council on Renewable Energy (“ACORE”);
+Added: and serves as a Board Member
+Added: and Advisor on Energy and Environment for the Eurasia Center/Eurasian Business Coalition, where he has planned and moderated conferences
+Added: on “Doing Business with the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa)”, and energy and infrastructure investment
+Added: opportunities associated with the “New Silk Road”.
+Added: has extensive experience in Government Contracting, and an advocate for Small Business access to Federal and Military contracting opportunities,
+Added: which is the reason he was chosen to be a director.
+Added: (He is not a director of any other public company.) He has served as a member of
+Added: Chamber of Commerce’s Small Business Council, and an observer to the White House sponsored Inter-Agency Task Force on
+Added: Veterans Business Development.
+Added: He is President of FED/Contracting LLC, a consultancy that assists Small Businesses in partnering with
+Added: Prime Contractors, and helps the Prime Contractors qualify Veteran and Minority vendors as teammates for project opportunities with mandated
+Added: Diversity Supplier content.
Based on the U.S.
Defense Dept.
−Removed: ‘Mentor-Protégé’
−Removed: program that he managed, Trillacorpe Construction, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, was awarded the 2010 Defense
−Removed: Department Nunn-Perry Award for “superior performance in the areas of business growth and return on investment, Government
−Removed: contracting, technical performance and quality management”.
+Added: ‘Mentor-Protégé’ program that he managed, Trillacorpe
+Added: Construction, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, was awarded the 2010 Defense Department Nunn-Perry Award for “superior
+Added: performance in the areas of business growth and return on investment, Government contracting, technical performance and quality management”.
Bolton became a director of the Company in July 2015.
Bolton had been retired since 2010.
−Removed: Bolton was selected to
−Removed: the board for his agriculture industry experience and his expertise with climate change.
−Removed: Although not a member of any other corporate
−Removed: board, he is a seasoned business professional with significant experience in production agriculture.
−Removed: From the management of fertilizer
−Removed: and chemical plants, to the development and integration of a precision farming system for a national fertilizer and chemical distribution
−Removed: company, George has worked to develop and integrate new technologies for agriculture.
+Added: Bolton was selected to the board
+Added: for his agriculture industry experience and his expertise with climate change.
+Added: Although not a member of any other corporate board, he
+Added: is a seasoned business professional with significant experience in production agriculture.
+Added: From the management of fertilizer and chemical
+Added: plants to the development and integration of a precision farming system for a national fertilizer and chemical distribution company,
+Added: George has worked to develop and integrate new technologies for agriculture.
to becoming a director of the Company, Mr.
Bolton recognized the impact carbon intensity would have on agriculture.
−Removed: was one of the founders of AgCert International, and co-author of the first agricultural baseline methodology approved by the
−Removed: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) AM0016:
−Removed: Greenhouse gas mitigation from improved animal waste
−Removed: management systems in confined animal feeding operations .
−Removed: Under his direction this methodology was the catalyst which allowed
−Removed: AgCert International to construct over 725 biodigesters impacting more than 94% of the qualifying concentrated animal feeding
−Removed: operations in Mexico and Brazil.
−Removed: The construction and operation of these biodigesters dramatically improved each farms local environment
−Removed: impact while also lowering their carbon intensity.
−Removed: The cooperation between AgCert and the local farmers enabled the use of the
−Removed: Clean Development Mechanism of the UNFCC to produce and market millions of certified emissions for the purchasers, as well as
−Removed: covering the costs of each farms biodigesters.
+Added: Bolton was one
+Added: of the founders of AgCert International, and co-author of the first agricultural baseline methodology approved by the United Nations
+Added: Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) AM0016:
+Added: Greenhouse gas mitigation from improved animal waste management systems in
+Added: confined animal feeding operations .
+Added: Under his direction this methodology was the catalyst which allowed AgCert International to construct
+Added: over 725 biodigesters impacting more than 94% of the qualifying concentrated animal feeding operations in Mexico and Brazil.
+Added: The construction
+Added: and operation of these biodigesters dramatically improved each farms local environment impact while also lowering their carbon intensity.
+Added: The cooperation between AgCert and the local farmers enabled the use of the Clean Development Mechanism of the UNFCC to produce and market
+Added: millions of certified emissions for the purchasers, as well as covering the costs of each farm’s biodigesters.
Zimeri is self-employed and has been semi-retired since 2010.
−Removed: He has been the single largest private producer of electricity
−Removed: in Central America through his ownership and operation of five power plants producing 120 MW of electricity.
−Removed: He has also been
−Removed: the owner of a textile plant with a workforce of over 3000.
−Removed: He has degrees in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering from Georgia
−Removed: He has been a board member of the International Civil Aviation Organization and has extensive contacts in the aviation world,
−Removed: which is the reason he was selected to be a director, along with his experience managing plants.
−Removed: He is not currently a member
−Removed: of any other corporate board.
−Removed: (Ned) Burke has been a director of the Company since 2020 and previously served in the financial services industry for the
−Removed: last 36 years, and his extensive contacts are the reason he was selected to be a board member.
−Removed: He recently retired as CEO of ALPS
−Removed: Holdings Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of SS&C Technologies Inc.
−Removed: Ned joined ALPS in 1992 as National Sales Manager, was
−Removed: named President in 2000 and became CEO in 2005 with the acquisition of ALPS by private equity firm Lovell Minnick Partners.
−Removed: was then acquired by DST Systems in 2011 and he remained CEO through DST being acquired by SS&C until his retirement in 2019.
−Removed: From the time he became president in 2000 through his retirement in 2019, his company’s revenue grew from approximately
−Removed: $10 million to over $220 million.
−Removed: Prior to ALPS, he held Regional Vice President positions with Fidelity Investments and Pioneer
+Added: He has been the single largest private producer of electricity in Central
+Added: America through his ownership and operation of five power plants producing 120 MW of electricity.
+Added: He has also been the owner of a textile
+Added: plant with a workforce of over 3000.
+Added: He has degrees in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering from Georgia Tech.
+Added: He has been a board
+Added: member of the International Civil Aviation Organization and has extensive contacts in the aviation world, which is the reason he was
+Added: selected to be a director, along with his experience managing plants.
+Added: He is not currently a member of any other corporate board.
+Added: (Ned) Burke has been a director of the Company since 2020 and previously served in the financial services industry for the last 36
+Added: years, and his extensive contacts are the reason he was selected to be a board member.
+Added: He recently retired as CEO of ALPS Holdings Inc.,
+Added: a wholly owned subsidiary of SS&C Technologies Inc.
+Added: Ned joined ALPS in 1992 as National Sales Manager, was named President in 2000
+Added: and became CEO in 2005 with the acquisition of ALPS by private equity firm Lovell Minnick Partners.
+Added: ALPS was then acquired by DST Systems
+Added: in 2011 and he remained CEO through DST being acquired by SS&C until his retirement in 2019.
+Added: From the time he became president in
+Added: 2000 through his retirement in 2019, his company’s revenue grew from approximately $10 million to over $220 million.
+Added: Prior to ALPS,
+Added: he held Regional Vice President positions with Fidelity Investments and Pioneer Investments.
Burke currently serves on the boards of 4 investment company complexes:
−Removed: Financial Investors Trust, ALPS ETF Trust, Clough Global
−Removed: Funds and Liberty AllStar Funds.
+Added: Financial Investors Trust, ALPS ETF Trust, Clough Global Funds
+Added: and Liberty AllStar Funds.
He also is an investor/advisor to a number of small companies.
He has a B.A.
−Removed: in Economics from
−Removed: the University of New Hampshire.
+Added: in Economics from the University
+Added: of New Hampshire.
Committee and Audit Committee Financial Expert
−Removed: Company has had a functioning audit committee as of May 2018, that then consisted of Anthony Santelli as chair and financial expert,
−Removed: and Charles Sills and two former board members.
−Removed: Anthony Santelli remained the Chair and financial expert on the audit committee
−Removed: until June 26, 2020, at which point he stepped down from the Chair and was replaced by George Bolton.
−Removed: From that date to the present,
−Removed: George Bolton has been the Chair and Charles Sills and Anthony Santelli the remaining other members.
+Added: Company’s board of directors has an audit committee which currently consists of Edmund Burke (chair), George Bolton, and Charles
+Added: Burke is the audit committee financial expert.
+Added: Board Committees
+Added: Company’s board of directors has a compensation committee consisting entirely of independent directors, with Peter Zimeri as chair
+Added: and Edmund Burke and Charles Sills as the other members.
+Added: Company has established a nominating and corporate governance committee, consisting entirely of independent directors, with Edmund Burke
+Added: serving as chair and George Bolton and Peter Zimeri as the other members.
in Certain Legal Proceedings
the past five years no director, person nominated to become a director, executive officer, promoter or control person of the Company
−Removed: (i) had any bankruptcy petition filed by or against any business of which such person was a general partner or executive
−Removed: officer either at the time of the bankruptcy or within two years prior to that time;
−Removed: (ii) been convicted in a criminal proceeding
−Removed: or been subject to a pending criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations and other minor offenses);
−Removed: (iii) been subject to
−Removed: any order, judgment, or decree, not subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated, of any court of competent jurisdiction, permanently
−Removed: or temporarily enjoining, barring, suspending or otherwise limiting his involvement in any type of business, securities or banking
−Removed: or (iv) been found by a court of competent jurisdiction (in a civil action), the Commission or the Commodity Futures
−Removed: Trading Commission to have violated a federal or state securities or commodities law, and the judgment has not been reversed,
−Removed: suspended, or vacated except for the following:
+Added: (i) had any bankruptcy petition filed by or against any business of which such person was a general partner or executive officer
+Added: either at the time of the bankruptcy or within two years prior to that time;
+Added: (ii) been convicted in a criminal proceeding or been subject
+Added: to a pending criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations and other minor offenses);
+Added: (iii) been subject to any order, judgment,
+Added: or decree, not subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated, of any court of competent jurisdiction, permanently or temporarily enjoining,
+Added: barring, suspending or otherwise limiting his involvement in any type of business, securities or banking activities;
+Added: or (iv) been found
+Added: by a court of competent jurisdiction (in a civil action), the Commission or the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to have violated
+Added: a federal or state securities or commodities law, and the judgment has not been reversed, suspended, or vacated except for the following:
of the directors of the Company (Messrs.
−Removed: Slager, Santelli, Sills and Bolton) were directors or executive officers of the Company
−Removed: at the time of the Company’s filing of a Voluntary Petition for Non-Individuals Filing for Bankruptcy pursuant to Chapter
−Removed: 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Act in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida (Case No.
−Removed: 18-23071-EPK)
−Removed: on October 22, 2018.
+Added: Slager, Santelli, Sills and Bolton) were directors or executive officers of the Company at the
+Added: time of the Company’s filing of a Voluntary Petition for Non-Individuals Filing for Bankruptcy pursuant to Chapter 11 of the United
+Added: States Bankruptcy Act in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida (Case No.
+Added: 18-23071-EPK) on October 22,
This Bankruptcy Proceeding was closed on October 25, 2019.
16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance
−Removed: 16(a) of the Securities Act of 1934 requires the Company’s officers and directors, and greater than 10% stockholders, to
−Removed: file reports of ownership and changes in ownership of its securities with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
−Removed: Copies of the
−Removed: reports are required by SEC regulation to be furnished to the Company.
−Removed: The Company filed a Form 15 in 2018 ceasing to be a “reporting
−Removed: Company”.
−Removed: On January 5, 2021, the Company filed a Form 10, which became effective 60 days later, on March 8, 2021.
−Removed: the date of this filing, all officers and directors and greater than 10% shareholders have filed reports in accord with these
−Removed: Company’s board of directors has adopted a code of ethics that its officers, directors and any person who may perform similar
−Removed: functions is subject to.
+Added: Our shares of common stock are registered under
+Added: the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and therefore our officers, directors and holders of more than 10% of our outstanding
+Added: shares are subject to the provisions of Section 16(a) of such Act which requires them to file with the SEC initial reports
+Added: of ownership and reports of changes in ownership of common stock and our other equity securities.
+Added: Officers, directors and greater
+Added: than 10% beneficial owners are required by SEC regulations to furnish us with copies of all Section 16(a) reports they
+Added: The Company filed a Form 15 in 2018 ceasing to be a “reporting Company”.
+Added: On January 5, 2021, the Company filed
+Added: a Form 10, which became effective 60 days later, on March 8, 2021.
+Added: Based solely upon our review of reports submitted to us during
+Added: the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, The following table sets forth the name of any such person that failed to file the required
+Added: forms on a timely basis, including the number of late reports, the number of transactions not reported on a timely basis and any known
+Added: failure to file a required form.
+Added: of late reports
+Added: of transactions not reported timely
+Added: Company’s board of directors has adopted a code of ethics that its officers, directors and any person who may perform similar functions
+Added: is subject to.
The Code of Ethics does not indicate the consequences of a breach of the code.
−Removed: If there is a breach,
−Removed: the board of directors would review the facts and circumstances surrounding the breach and take action that it deems appropriate,
−Removed: which action may include dismissal of the employee who breached the code.
+Added: If there is a breach, the board of directors
+Added: would review the facts and circumstances surrounding the breach and take action that it deems appropriate, which action may include dismissal
+Added: of the employee who breached the code.
– EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
−Removed: Company’s board of directors has a compensation committee consisting entirely of independent directors, with Peter Zimeri
−Removed: as chair and George Bolton and Charles Sills as the other members.
−Removed: The Company’s compensation philosophy is based on its
−Removed: belief that its compensation programs should be aligned with stockholders’
−Removed: interests and business objectives;
+Added: Company’s board of directors has a compensation committee consisting entirely of independent directors, with Peter Zimeri as chair
+Added: and Edmund Burke and Charles Sills as the other members.
+Added: The Company’s compensation philosophy is based on its belief that its
+Added: compensation programs should be aligned with stockholders’ interests and business objectives;
reward performance;
−Removed: and be externally competitive and internally equitable.
−Removed: The Company seeks to achieve three objectives, which serve as guidelines
−Removed: in making compensation decisions:
+Added: and be externally
+Added: competitive and internally equitable.
+Added: The Company seeks to achieve three objectives, which serve as guidelines in making compensation
a total compensation package which is competitive and therefore enables it to attract and retain, high-caliber executive personnel;
compensation programs with its short-term and long-term strategic plan and business objectives;
−Removed: achievement of business objectives and enhancement of stockholder value by providing executive management log-term incentive
−Removed: through equity ownership.
+Added: achievement of business objectives and enhancement of stockholder value by providing executive management log-term incentive through
+Added: equity ownership.
Company may compensate its officers with cash compensation, common stock and common stock options.
−Removed: The Company has not established
−Removed: any quantifiable criteria with respect to the level of compensation, stock grants or options.
−Removed: Rather, the Board of Directors and
−Removed: its compensation committee will evaluate cash, stock grants and stock options paid to executives in similarly situated companies.
−Removed: respect to stock grants and options which may be issued to the Company’s officers and directors, the Board and its compensation
−Removed: committee will consider an overall compensation package that includes both cash and stock-based compensation which would be in
−Removed: line with the Company’s overall operations and compensation levels paid to similarly situated companies.
−Removed: Under the Company’s
−Removed: 2012 Employee, Director Stock Plan, the administrator can provide for the grant of non-qualified stock options (“Non-Qualified
−Removed: Stock Options”), incentive stock options (“ISOs”, together with Non-Qualified Stock Options referred to herein
−Removed: as “Stock Options”), stock appreciation rights (“SARs”), restricted stock (“Restricted Stock”)
−Removed: and registered stock (“Registered Stock”), (collectively, the “Awards”) to eligible Participants.
+Added: The Company has not established any
+Added: quantifiable criteria with respect to the level of compensation, stock grants or options.
+Added: Rather, the Board of Directors and its compensation
+Added: committee will evaluate cash, stock grants and stock options paid to executives in similarly situated companies.
+Added: respect to stock grants and options which may be issued to the Company’s officers and directors, the Board and its compensation
+Added: committee will consider an overall compensation package that includes both cash and stock-based compensation which would be in line with
+Added: the Company’s overall operations and compensation levels paid to similarly situated companies.
+Added: Under the Company’s 2012 Employee,
+Added: Director Stock Plan, the administrator can provide for the grant of non-qualified stock options (“Non-Qualified Stock Options”),
+Added: incentive stock options (“ISOs”, together with Non-Qualified Stock Options referred to herein as “Stock Options”),
+Added: stock appreciation rights (“SARs”), restricted stock (“Restricted Stock”) and registered stock (“Registered
+Added: Stock”), (collectively, the “Awards”) to eligible Participants.
of the date of this filing, the Company has two executives.
on January 1, 2021, Ben Slager, CEO, has an employment contract to receive a salary of $360,000 per annum until at least June 30, 2022.
−Removed: 30, 2022, and until all his back pay due is paid.
−Removed: He will receive a $40,000 bonus plus health insurance.
−Removed: In addition, he must
−Removed: be given 6-months’
−Removed: notice of termination, and shall receive a severance package of one-month’s pay in addition
−Removed: to the 6-months’
−Removed: notice, or 3 months’
−Removed: salary if he dies.
−Removed: If there is a change of control, all his options
−Removed: His prior employment contracts from when he was Chief Technology Officer and CEO, dating back to 2017, all had his
−Removed: salary at $220,000 per annum.
+Added: He received a $40,000 bonus in early 2021 and has health insurance covered.
+Added: In 2021, he also received his back pay from multiple prior
+Added: The board awarded one months’ salary as a bonus to all employees employed in 2020 who remained employed in 2021.
+Added: he must be given 6-months’ notice of termination, and shall receive a severance package of one-month’s pay in addition to
+Added: the 6-months’ notice, or 3 months’ salary if he dies.
+Added: If there is a change of control, all his options shall vest.
January 1, 2021, Anthony Santelli, CFO, has an employment contract to receive a salary of $250,000 per annum, and may not be terminated
until all his back pay due is paid.
−Removed: In addition, the CFO must be given 6-months’
−Removed: notice of termination and shall
−Removed: receive a severance package of one-month’s pay in addition to the 6-months’
−Removed: notice, or 3 months’
−Removed: salary if he dies.
−Removed: If there is a change of control, all his options shall vest.
−Removed: His prior contracts as CFO and COO dating from
−Removed: October 20, 2018, had his salary at $200,000 per annum.
−Removed: of December 31, 2020, Ben Slager is owed $440,682 in back pay dating as far back as 2017, along with interest of $56,151.
−Removed: September 30, 2020, Anthony Santelli is owed $148,218 in back pay plus $16,033 in unpaid director’s fees, along with interest
−Removed: of December 31, 2020, AES Financial Advisors, LLC, an entity owned by Anthony Santelli II and his wife Marjorie Santelli, Esq.,
−Removed: is owed $76,670, primarily dating from 2018, prior to when Dr.
+Added: The board awarded one months’ salary as a bonus to all employees employed in 2020 who remained
+Added: employed in 2021.
+Added: In addition, the CFO must be given 6-months’ notice of termination and shall receive a severance package of one-month’s
+Added: pay in addition to the 6-months’ notice, or 3 months’ salary if he dies.
+Added: If there is a change of control, all his options
+Added: of December 31, 2021, Anthony Santelli is owed $148,218 in back pay plus $16,033 in unpaid director’s fees, along with interest
+Added: of December 31, 2021, AES Financial Advisors, LLC, an entity owned by Anthony Santelli II and his wife Marjorie Santelli, Esq., is owed
+Added: $72,670, primarily dating from 2018, prior to when Dr.
Santelli became COO, plus interest of $3,885.
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2021, and December 31, 2020.
−Removed: This information includes the dollar value of base salaries, bonus awards and number of stock
−Removed: options granted, and certain other compensation, if any.
−Removed: The compensation discussed addresses all compensation awarded to, earned
−Removed: by, or paid to its named executive officers and directors.
−Removed: Principal Position
−Removed: Option Awards
−Removed: Non-Equity Incentive Plans
−Removed: Non-Qualified Deferred Comp on Earnings
+Added: This information includes the dollar value of base salaries, bonus awards and number of stock options granted,
+Added: and certain other compensation, if any, actually paid.
+Added: Accrued back pay is included in Other in the year in which it is actually paid.
+Added: The compensation discussed addresses all compensation awarded to or paid to its named executive officers.
+Added: Incentive Plans
+Added: Deferred Comp on Earnings
Benjamin Slager
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of Plan-Based Awards
−Removed: Number of Securities Underlying Unexercised Options (#) Exercisable
−Removed: Option Awards Equity Incentive Plan Awards:
−Removed: Number of Securities Underlying Unexercised Unearned Options (#)
−Removed: Number of Securities Underlying Unexercised Options (#) Unexercisable (1)
−Removed: Option Exercise Price ($)
−Removed: Option Expiration Date
+Added: of Securities Underlying Unexercised Options (#) Exercisable
+Added: of Securities Underlying Unexercised Unearned
+Added: of Securities Underlying Unexercised Options (#) Unexercisable (1)
+Added: Exercise Price
+Added: Expiration Date
+Added: Ben Slager, CEO
+Added: Anthony Santelli, CFO Director
Ben Slager, CEO Chairman
Anthony Santelli, CFO Director
−Removed: Peter Zimeri, Director
−Removed: Plan category
−Removed: Number of Securities to be Issued upon Exercise of outstanding options, warrants, and rights to Executives and Directors (column a) (1)
−Removed: Weighted-average exercise price of outstanding options, warrants, and rights
−Removed: Number of securities remaining available for future issuance under equity compensation plans (excluding securities reflected in column (a) as well as securities issued to other employees and consultants) (1)
−Removed: Equity Compensation Plans Approved by Securities Holders
−Removed: Equity Compensation Plans Not Approved by Securities Holders
−Removed: of December 31, 2020.
+Added: Zimeri, Director
Issued to Management
of Plan-Based Awards
−Removed: Number of Securities Underlying Unexercised Warrants (#) Exercisable
−Removed: Number of Securities Underlying Unexercised Warrants (#) Unexercisable (1)
−Removed: Warrant Exercise Price ($)
−Removed: Warrant Expiration Date
+Added: Unexercisable
of December 31, 2021.
Equity Awards at Fiscal Year End
−Removed: the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer received options to purchase up to 10,000,000 shares
−Removed: of the company’s common stock under the Company’s 2012 Employee Director Stock Plan at an exercise price of 10 cents
−Removed: per share, half that vested immediately, and half that vest upon the commercialization of the CTS 2.0 process.
−Removed: Using a Black-Scholes
−Removed: asset pricing model, the vested options were valued at $414,850.
−Removed: In the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company’s Chief
−Removed: Executive Officer received options to purchase up to 4,000,000 shares of the company’s common stock under the Company’s
−Removed: 2012 Employee Director Stock Plan at an exercise price of $0.025 per share.
−Removed: Using a Black-Scholes asset pricing model, these agreement
−Removed: were valued at $103,132.
−Removed: In 2019, all these options issued in 2019 and all prior options were returned and the CEO purchased 30,000,000
−Removed: shares of common stock at $0.005 per share upon the approval of the Bankruptcy Court.
−Removed: the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer received options to purchase up to 10,000,000 shares
−Removed: of the company’s common stock under the Company’s 2012 Employee Director Stock Plan at an exercise price of 10 cents
−Removed: per share, half that vested immediately, and half that vest upon the commercialization of the CTS 2.0 process.
−Removed: Using a Black-Scholes
−Removed: asset pricing model, the vested options were valued at $414,850.
−Removed: In the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company’s Chief
−Removed: Financial Officer received options to purchase up to 2,000,000 shares of the company’s common stock under the Company’s
−Removed: 2012 Employee Director Stock Plan at an exercise price of $0.25 per share.
−Removed: Using a Black-Scholes asset pricing model, these agreement
−Removed: were valued at $51,566.
−Removed: In 2019, all these options and all prior options were returned and the CFO purchased 20,000,000 shares
−Removed: of common stock at $0.005 per share upon the approval of the Bankruptcy Court.
−Removed: the year ended December 31, 2019, director George Bolton returned all his options and purchased 4,700,000 shares of common stock
−Removed: at $0.005 per share upon the approval of the Bankruptcy Court.
−Removed: the year ended December 31, 2020, director Charles Sills converted $30,000 in back pay into 600,000 shares of common stock at
−Removed: a price of $0.05 per share.
−Removed: In the year ended December 31, 2019, he converted $2,500 of back pay into 500,000 shares of common
−Removed: stock upon approval of the Bankruptcy Court.
−Removed: In the year ended December 31, 2018, he received options to purchase 402,471 shares
−Removed: of the company’s common stock under the Company’s 2012 Employee Director Stock Plan.
−Removed: Using a Black-Scholes asset pricing
−Removed: model, these agreement were valued at $14,418.
−Removed: In 2018, those options and others from prior years totaling 781,098 were rescinded,
−Removed: having been improperly issued, and back pay of $40,000 was rebooked as accounts payable.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2020, Mr.
−Removed: owed $31,543 in back pay.
−Removed: the year ended December 31, 2020, Peter Zimeri received options to purchase 100,000 shares of the Company’s common stock
−Removed: under the Company’s 2012 Employee Director Stock Plan, at an exercise price of $0.05/share.
−Removed: Using a Black-Scholes asset
−Removed: pricing model, these options were valued at $6,431.
−Removed: the year ended December 31, 2019, prior to being a director, Ned Burke received 1,000,000 warrants to purchase common stock at
−Removed: an exercise price of $0.05 per share in exchange for services.
−Removed: These warrants were valued at $49,521.
+Added: January 2021, the company’s Chief Executive Officer Ben Slager received options to purchase up to 6,000,000 shares of the Company’s
+Added: common stock under the Company’s 2012 Employee Director Stock Plan at an exercise price of 15 cents per share that vested January
+Added: Using a Black-Scholes option pricing model, these were valued at $743,298.
+Added: In the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company’s
+Added: Chief Executive Officer received options to purchase up to 10,000,000 shares of the company’s common stock under the Company’s
+Added: 2012 Employee Director Stock Plan at an exercise price of 10 cents per share, half that vested immediately, and half that vest upon the
+Added: commercialization of the CTS 2.0 process.
+Added: Using a Black-Scholes asset pricing model, the vested options were valued at $414,850.
+Added: January 2021, the company’s Chief Financial Officer Anthony Santelli received options to purchase up to 4,000,000 shares of the
+Added: Company’s common stock under the Company’s 2012 Employee Director Stock Plan at an exercise price of 15 cents per share that
+Added: vested on January 1, 2022.
+Added: Using a Black-Scholes option pricing model, these were valued at $495,532.
+Added: In the year ended December 31,
+Added: 2020, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer received options to purchase up to 10,000,000 shares of the company’s common
+Added: stock under the Company’s 2012 Employee Director Stock Plan at an exercise price of 10 cents per share, half that vested immediately,
+Added: and half that vest upon the commercialization of the CTS 2.0 process.
+Added: Using a Black-Scholes asset pricing model, the vested options were
+Added: valued at $414,850.
Narrative Disclosures
−Removed: majority of the Company’s employees, including its executive officers, have entered into employment contracts with the company.
−Removed: The company does not offer any benefits package, deferred compensation, or retirement plan at this time, other than an employee
−Removed: stock option plan.
−Removed: March 2015, the Board of Directors approved a resolution to award compensation packages to the Company’s independent directors
+Added: majority of the Company’s employees, including its executive officers, have entered into employment contracts with the company.
+Added: The company does not offer any benefits package, deferred compensation, or retirement plan at this time, other than an employee stock
+Added: March 2015, the Board of Directors approved a resolution to award compensation packages to the Company’s independent directors
for their service as directors or as members of any committee of directors.
−Removed: Each independent member of the board was to receive
−Removed: $10,000 in value of common stock, cash or five-year options per quarter.
−Removed: In addition, the Chairman of the Board was to receive
−Removed: a $3,000 monthly payment.
−Removed: In May 2018, the Board of Directors approved a resolution to cut the compensation package to $5,000
−Removed: each quarter, and for it to be payable only in cash or to be accrued on the books.
−Removed: There was no additional compensation for the
−Removed: Directors who are also officers are not to receive additional compensation for being Directors.
−Removed: Due to the necessity
−Removed: to restructure the Company, and the unusual amount of work that had been put onto Board members, the Board of Directors enabled
−Removed: stock to be purchased with accrued unpaid Board compensation with the approval of the Bankruptcy Court.
−Removed: After the Company exited
−Removed: Chapter 11, Board compensation reverted to $5,000 per quarter.
−Removed: In a resolution dated September 2020, the board voted to have the
−Removed: $5000 per quarter paid in restricted stock at the market price.
+Added: Directors who are also officers are not to receive additional
+Added: compensation for being Directors.
+Added: A resolution dated May 5, 2021, reduced board compensation to $2,500 per quarter paid, at the option
+Added: of the director, in cash or stock at the market price at the end of the quarter.
+Added: Some directors have been accruing that as back pay.
+Added: following table sets forth compensation we paid to our non-officer directors during the year ended December 31, 2021:
+Added: See note 3 to the audited financial statements included in this prospectus for assumptions used in valuation.
– SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS
−Removed: following table sets forth certain information regarding beneficial ownership of the Company’s Common Stock as of March
−Removed: 31, 2021, by:
+Added: following table sets forth certain information regarding beneficial ownership of the Company’s Common Stock as of February 1, 2022,
(i) each current director;
each nominee for director, and executive officer of the Company;
−Removed: (ii) all directors and
−Removed: executive officers as a group;
−Removed: and (iii) each shareholder who owns more than five percent of the outstanding shares of the Company’s
−Removed: Common Stock.
−Removed: Except as otherwise indicated, the Company believes each of the persons listed below possesses sole voting and investment
−Removed: power with respect to the shares indicated.
−Removed: Name and Address
−Removed: No of Shares (2)
+Added: (ii) all directors and executive officers
+Added: and (iii) each shareholder who owns more than five percent of the outstanding shares of the Company’s Common Stock.
+Added: Except as otherwise indicated, the Company believes each of the persons listed below possesses sole voting and investment power with
+Added: respect to the shares indicated.
+Added: of Shares (2)
Benjamin Slager
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Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410
−Removed: All officers and directors as a group (five persons)
+Added: All officers and directors
+Added: as a group (five persons)
Chris Jemapete (7)
7 unchanged sentences
Hopewell, NJ 08525
−Removed: percentages in this table are based upon 241,721,947 shares of common stock issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2020,
−Removed: and assumes the persons vested options and warrants are exercised but none other.
+Added: percentages in this table are based upon 274,003,883 shares of common stock issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2021, and assumes
+Added: the persons vested options and warrants are exercised but none other.
ownership is determined in accordance with the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission and includes voting and investment
power with respect to the shares.
−Removed: Shares of Common Stock subject to options or warrants currently exercisable or exercisable
−Removed: within 60 days are deemed outstanding for computing the percentage of the person holding such options or warrants, but are
−Removed: not deemed outstanding for computing the percentage of any other person.
−Removed: 5,000,000 fully vested and exercisable employee options owned by Benjamin Slager.
−Removed: Benjamin Slager also has 11,000,000 additional
−Removed: employee options awarded, with 6,000,000 vesting January 1, 2022, and 5,000,000 vesting with the commercialization of the
−Removed: CTS 2.0 system, unless the company enters into a merger or purchase agreement, at which time all options shall vest immediately.
−Removed: 23,366,803 shares, 260,136 fully vested and exercisable warrants, and 5,000,000 vested and exercisable employee options owned
−Removed: by Anthony Santelli, II;
−Removed: 3,341,639 shares and 600,000 fully vested and exercisable warrants owned by AES Capital Partners,
+Added: Shares of Common Stock subject to options or warrants currently exercisable or exercisable within
+Added: 60 days are deemed outstanding for computing the percentage of the person holding such options or warrants, but are not deemed outstanding
+Added: for computing the percentage of any other person.
+Added: 15,000,000 shares owned by the Benjamin Slager 2021 Irrevocable Trust;
+Added: and shares underlying 11,000,000 fully vested and exercisable
+Added: employee options owned by Benjamin Slager.
+Added: Benjamin Slager also has 5,000,000 additional employee options awarded that will vest
+Added: with the commercialization of the CTS 2.0 system, unless the company enters into a merger or purchase agreement, at which time all
+Added: options shall vest immediately.
+Added: 23,366,803 shares, 260,136 fully vested and exercisable warrants, and 9,000,000 vested and exercisable employee options owned by
+Added: Anthony Santelli, II;
+Added: 3,341,639 shares and 600,000 fully vested and exercisable warrants owned by AES Capital Partners, LP;
shares and 3,125,000 fully vested and exercisable warrants owned by The AES Capital Resource Fund, LP;
−Removed: shares and 135,136 fully vested and exercisable warrants owned by Santelli Partners, three entities controlled by Anthony
−Removed: Santelli, II.
−Removed: Anthony Santelli also has 9,000,000 additional employee options awarded, with 4,000,000 vesting on January 1,
−Removed: 2022, and 5,000,000 vesting with the commercialization of the CTS 2.0 system, unless the company enters into a merger or purchase
−Removed: agreement, at which time all options shall vest immediately.
+Added: and 135,136 shares and 135,136
+Added: fully vested and exercisable warrants owned by Santelli Partners, three entities controlled by Anthony Santelli, II.
+Added: Anthony Santelli
+Added: also has 5,000,000 additional employee options awarded that will vest with the commercialization of the CTS 2.0 system, unless the
+Added: company enters into a merger or purchase agreement, at which time all options shall vest immediately.
100,000 fully vested and exercisable options.
7,980,128 shares and 5,716,814 fully vested warrants.
−Removed: Burke has converted two debentures into 4,500,000 shares
−Removed: and 4,450,148 warrants, that are included in the above figures.
7,400,000 shares held by Chris Jemapete and 4,275,000 held jointly by Chris and Pamela Jemapete, his spouse.
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are owned by his spouse.
−Removed: 10,303,674 shares owned by Steven Sadaka, and 8,097,351 shares owned by SLMJ Rocky Opportunity Trust controlled by Steven
+Added: 10,303,674 shares owned by Steven Sadaka, and 8,097,351 shares owned by SLMJ Rocky Opportunity Trust controlled by Steven Sadaka.
He exercised all his warrants into shares in 2021.
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– CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE
−Removed: board resolution was passed on February 13, 2020, that pledged the pending patents to secure the back pay claims of Ben Slager,
−Removed: CEO, Anthony Santelli, CFO, and Charles Sills, Director.
−Removed: This was done to ensure the continued involvement of management to
−Removed: build the Company while they continue to receive less than full salaries.
+Added: board resolution was passed on February 13, 2020, that pledged the patents and pending patents to secure the back pay claims of Ben
+Added: Slager, CEO, Anthony Santelli, CFO, and Charles Sills, Director.
+Added: This was done to ensure the continued involvement of management
+Added: to build the Company while they continue to be owed back pay.
notes payable, convertible notes, and contingent liabilities issued to related parties are described in NOTE 5 above.
−Removed: officers and directors for the Company are involved in other business activities and may, in the future, become involved in other
−Removed: business opportunities.
−Removed: If a specific business opportunity becomes available, such persons may face a conflict in selecting between
−Removed: the Company and their other business interest.
+Added: officers and directors for the Company are involved in other business activities and may, in the future, become involved in other business
+Added: opportunities.
+Added: If a specific business opportunity becomes available, such persons may face a conflict in selecting between the Company
+Added: and their other business interest.
The Company has not formulated a policy for the resolution of such conflicts.
Company currently has four (4) independent directors within the meaning of Nasdaq Marketplace Rule 4200.
−Removed: With four (4) independent
−Removed: directors, the company feels that the current board can competently perform the functions that an independent Board of Directors
−Removed: would provide.
+Added: With four (4) independent directors,
+Added: the company feels that the current board can competently perform the functions that an independent Board of Directors should provide.
– PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES.
−Removed: aggregate fees billed by the Company’s auditors, Prager Metis CPA’s LLC for professional services rendered for the
−Removed: audit of its annual financial statements for fiscal year ended December 31, 2020, and review its interim financial statements
−Removed: for the first, second and third quarters of 2020 are approximately $32,000.
−Removed: the past fiscal year, no fees were billed or incurred for assurance or related services by the Company’s auditors that were
−Removed: reasonably related to the audit or review of financial statements reported above.
+Added: aggregate fees billed by the Company’s auditors, Prager Metis CPA’s LLC for professional services rendered for the audit
+Added: of its annual financial statements for fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, and December 31, 2020, and review its interim financial statements
+Added: for the first, second and third quarters of 2021 and 2020 are approximately $44,500 and $32,00 respectively.
+Added: the past fiscal year, no fees were billed or incurred for assurance or related services by the Company’s auditors that were reasonably
+Added: related to the audit or review of financial statements reported above.
the past fiscal year, the Company incurred approximately $5,000 for tax preparation fees for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020
−Removed: the past fiscal year, no other fees were billed or incurred for services by the Company’s auditors other than the fees noted
−Removed: The Company’s board, acting as an audit committee, deemed the fees charged to be compatible with maintenance of the
−Removed: independence of its auditors.
+Added: and $6,100 for fiscal year ended December 31, 2019.
+Added: the past fiscal year, no other fees were billed or incurred for services by the Company’s auditors other than the fees noted above.
+Added: The Company’s board, acting as an audit committee, deemed the fees charged to be compatible with maintenance of the independence
+Added: of its auditors.
Board of Directors Preapproval Policies
Company has had a functioning audit committee since May 2018.
−Removed: Nevertheless, the Company’s full board approved of the audit
−Removed: arrangement with Prager Metis P.A.
−Removed: Board of directors pre-approval of audit and non-audit services will not be required if the
−Removed: engagement for the services is entered into pursuant to pre-approval policies and procedures established by the Company’s
−Removed: board of directors regarding its engagement of the independent auditor, provided the policies and procedures are detailed as to
−Removed: the particular service, its board of directors is informed of each service provided, and such policies and procedures do not include
−Removed: delegation of its board of directors’
−Removed: responsibilities under the Exchange Act to its management.
−Removed: The Company’s board
−Removed: of directors may delegate to one or more designated members of its board of directors the authority to grant pre-approvals, provided
−Removed: such approvals are presented to the board of directors at a subsequent meeting.
−Removed: If the board of directors elects to establish
−Removed: pre-approval policies and procedures regarding non-audit services, the board of directors must be informed of each non-audit service
−Removed: provided by the independent auditor.
−Removed: Board of Directors pre-approval of non-audit services, other than review and attest services,
−Removed: also will not be required if such services fall within available exceptions established by the SEC.
−Removed: For the fiscal year ending
−Removed: December 31, 2020, 100% of audit-related services, tax services and other services performed by the Company’s independent
−Removed: auditors were pre-approved by its board of directors.
−Removed: Company’s board has considered whether the services described above under the caption “All Other Fees”, which
−Removed: are currently none, is compatible with maintaining the auditor’s independence.
+Added: For the fiscal year ending December 31, 2021, the Company’s full
+Added: board approved of the audit arrangement with Prager Metis P.A.
+Added: Board of directors pre-approval of audit and non-audit services will not
+Added: be required if the engagement for the services is entered into pursuant to pre-approval policies and procedures established by the Company’s
+Added: board of directors regarding its engagement of the independent auditor, provided the policies and procedures are detailed as to the particular
+Added: service, its board of directors is informed of each service provided, and such policies and procedures do not include delegation of its
+Added: board of directors’ responsibilities under the Exchange Act to its management.
+Added: The Company’s board of directors may delegate
+Added: to one or more designated members of its board of directors the authority to grant pre-approvals, provided such approvals are presented
+Added: to the board of directors at a subsequent meeting.
+Added: If the board of directors elects to establish pre-approval policies and procedures
+Added: regarding non-audit services, the board of directors must be informed of each non-audit service provided by the independent auditor.
+Added: Board of Directors pre-approval of non-audit services, other than review and attest services, also will not be required if such services
+Added: fall within available exceptions established by the SEC.
+Added: For the fiscal year ending December 31, 2021, 100% of audit-related services,
+Added: tax services and other services performed by the Company’s independent auditors were pre-approved by its board of directors.
+Added: Company’s board has considered whether the services described above under the caption “All Other Fees”, which are currently
+Added: none, is compatible with maintaining the auditor’s independence.
board approved all fees described above.
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Consolidated Statements of Operations for the years ended December 31, 2021 December 31, 2020
−Removed: Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholder’s Equity for the years ended December 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019
+Added: Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholder’s Equity for the years ended December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES
−Removed: financial statement schedules have been omitted as they are not required, not applicable, or the required information is otherwise
+Added: financial statement schedules have been omitted as they are not required, not applicable, or the required information is otherwise included.
exhibits listed below are filed as part of or incorporated by reference in this report.
Identification
+Added: Articles of Incorporation (incorporated by reference to the Company’s S-1 filed May 23, 2012)
+Added: Certificate of Amendment to Articles of Incorporation filed November 19, 2014 (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Form 10-12G/A filed on February 16, 2021)
+Added: Certificate of Amendment to Articles of Incorporation filed June 17, 2016 (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Form 10-12G/A filed on February 16, 2021)
+Added: Certificate of Amendment to Articles of Incorporation filed July 26, 2021 (incorporated by reference to the Company’s 8-K filed on July 30, 2021)
+Added: Bylaws (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Form 10-12G/A filed on February 16, 2021)
+Added: Employment Agreement, dated June 1, 2020, between the Company and Ben Slager (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Form 10-12G/A filed on February 16, 2021)
+Added: Employment Agreement, dated June 1, 2020, between the Company and Anthony Santelli (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Form 10-12G/A filed on February 16, 2021
+Added: 2021 Employee, Director Stock Plan (incorporated by reference to definitive 14C filed with the SEC on June 24, 2021)
+Added: Code of Ethics (attached hereto)
Certification of the Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
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Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
−Removed: to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed
−Removed: on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
−Removed: BioEnergy Plus, Inc.
+Added: XBRL Instance Document
+Added: XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document
+Added: XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document
+Added: XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document
+Added: XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document
+Added: XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document
+Added: Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document)
+Added: to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its
+Added: behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
+Added: Biofuels, Inc.
Benjamin Slager
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Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
−Removed: to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following person on behalf
−Removed: of the registrant and in the capacity and on the date indicated.
+Added: to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following person on behalf of the
+Added: registrant and in the capacity and on the date indicated.
Benjamin Slager
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Compared sentence by sentence after normalising whitespace, quotation marks, case and digits, so re-formatting and restated figures do not read as changed language. Wording changes appear as one removal and one addition. The current filing and the prior one are authoritative.