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of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
−Removed: Disclosure controls
−Removed: and procedures are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in the reports filed with or furnished to the Securities
−Removed: and Exchange Commission, or the SEC, under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act, is recorded, processed,
−Removed: summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the rules and forms of the SEC.
−Removed: Disclosure controls and procedures include,
−Removed: without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in the reports filed under the
−Removed: Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, to
−Removed: allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
−Removed: Under the supervision
−Removed: and with the participation of our management, including our chief executive officer and our chief financial officer, we conducted an
−Removed: evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures, as defined in Rules 13a-15(e)
−Removed: and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the Exchange Act).
−Removed: Based on this evaluation, our management concluded that as
−Removed: of March 31, 2022, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective.
+Added: controls and procedures are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in the reports filed with or furnished to the
+Added: Securities and Exchange Commission, or the SEC, under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act, is recorded,
+Added: processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the rules and forms of the SEC.
+Added: Disclosure controls and procedures
+Added: include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in the reports filed
+Added: under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our chief executive officer and chief financial officer,
+Added: to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
+Added: the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our chief executive officer and our chief financial officer,
+Added: we conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures, as defined in
+Added: Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the Exchange Act).
+Added: Based on this evaluation, our management
+Added: concluded that as of March 31, 2023, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective.
Annual Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting
−Removed: Our management is responsible
−Removed: for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting, as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(f)
−Removed: and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act.
−Removed: In designing and evaluating the disclosure controls and procedures, management recognizes that
−Removed: any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving the desired
−Removed: control objectives, and management necessarily is required to apply its judgment in evaluating the cost-benefit relationship of possible
−Removed: Internal control over financial reporting is the process designed by, or under the supervision of, our chief executive officer
−Removed: and chief financial officer, and effected by our board of directors, management and other personnel, to provide reasonable assurance
+Added: management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting, as such term is defined
+Added: in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act.
+Added: In designing and evaluating the disclosure controls and procedures, management
+Added: recognizes that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving
+Added: the desired control objectives, and management necessarily is required to apply its judgment in evaluating the cost-benefit relationship
+Added: of possible controls.
+Added: Internal control over financial reporting is the process designed by, or under the supervision of, our chief executive
+Added: officer and chief financial officer, and effected by our board of directors, management and other personnel, to provide reasonable assurance
regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of consolidated financial statements for external purposes in accordance
with generally accepted accounting principles, and includes those policies and procedures that:
−Removed: (i) pertain to the maintenance of
−Removed: records that in reasonable detail accurately and fairly reflect our transactions and dispositions of assets;
−Removed: (ii) provide reasonable
−Removed: assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of consolidated financial statements in accordance with generally
−Removed: accepted accounting principles, and that our receipts and expenditures are being made only in accordance with authorizations of our management
+Added: (i) pertain to the maintenance of records
+Added: that in reasonable detail accurately and fairly reflect our transactions and dispositions of assets;
+Added: (ii) provide reasonable assurance
+Added: that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of consolidated financial statements in accordance with generally accepted
+Added: accounting principles, and that our receipts and expenditures are being made only in accordance with authorizations of our management
and directors;
−Removed: and (iii) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use
−Removed: or disposition of our assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
−Removed: Because of its inherent
−Removed: limitations, cost-effective internal controls over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements.
−Removed: All internal control
−Removed: systems, no matter how well designed, have inherent limitations, including the possibility of human error and the circumvention of overriding
−Removed: Accordingly, even effective internal control over financial reporting can provide only reasonable assurance with respect to
−Removed: consolidated financial statement preparation.
−Removed: Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the
−Removed: risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures
−Removed: may deteriorate.
−Removed: Under the supervision
−Removed: and with the participation of our management, including our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, we conducted an assessment
−Removed: of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of the end of the period covered by this Annual Report on Form
−Removed: In making this assessment, we used the criteria based on the framework in Internal
−Removed: Control—Integrated Framework (2013 Framework) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway
−Removed: Based on the assessment, our management concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was effective as of
−Removed: March 31, 2022.
+Added: and (iii) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition
+Added: of our assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
+Added: of its inherent limitations, cost-effective internal controls over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements.
+Added: control systems, no matter how well designed, have inherent limitations, including the possibility of human error and the circumvention
+Added: of overriding controls.
+Added: Accordingly, even effective internal control over financial reporting can provide only reasonable assurance with
+Added: respect to consolidated financial statement preparation.
+Added: Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject
+Added: to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies
+Added: or procedures may deteriorate.
+Added: the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, we conducted
+Added: an assessment of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of the end of the period covered by this Annual
+Added: Report on Form 10-K.
+Added: In making this assessment, we used the criteria based on the framework in Internal Control—Integrated Framework
+Added: (2013 Framework) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission.
+Added: Based on the assessment, our management
+Added: concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was effective as of March 31, 2023.
in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
−Removed: There were no changes in our internal controls
−Removed: over financial reporting during the fourth fiscal quarter of 2022 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially
−Removed: affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: were no changes in our internal controls over financial reporting during the fourth fiscal quarter of 2023 that have materially affected,
+Added: or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
OTHER INFORMATION
DISCLOSURE REGARDING FOREIGN JURISDICTIONS THAT PREVENT INSPECTIONS.
−Removed: Not applicable
−Removed: DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS, AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
−Removed: The names of our directors, executive officers
−Removed: and certain information about each of them at March 31, 2022 are set forth below.
−Removed: Executive Officer
−Removed: Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Chairman of the Board of Directors
+Added: DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS, AND CORPORATE
+Added: The names of our directors, executive
+Added: officers and certain information about each of them at March 31, 2023 are set forth below.
+Added: Chief Executive Officer
+Added: President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Chairman of the Board of Directors
+Added: Chief Operating Officer
Steven Felsher(2)(3)
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Ellen O’Connor Vos
−Removed: of Compensation Committee
−Removed: of Audit Committee
−Removed: of Nominating and Governance Committee
−Removed: The principal occupations
−Removed: and positions for at least the past five years of our directors and executive officers are described below.
+Added: (1) Member of Compensation Committee
+Added: (2) Member of Audit Committee
+Added: (3) Member of Nominating and Governance Committee
There are no family relationships
among any of our directors or executive officers.
−Removed: “Jeb” Besser .
−Removed: Besser has served as our chief executive officer since February 23, 2022 and combines over 25 years
−Removed: of experience in alternative investments, strategic advisory, corporate strategy and corporate governance.
−Removed: Since 1999, he has been a
−Removed: Managing Member at Manchester Management Company, LLC (Manchester), an investment management firm.
−Removed: Besser is also currently a director
−Removed: of River Stone Biotech, a development stage specialty bioprocessing company.
+Added: The principal occupations and
+Added: positions for at least the past five years of our directors and executive officers are described below.
+Added: James “Jeb” Besser .
+Added: Besser has served as our chief executive officer since February 23, 2022 and combines over 25 years of experience in alternative investments,
+Added: strategic advisory, corporate strategy and corporate governance.
+Added: Since 1999, he has been a Managing Member at Manchester Management Company,
+Added: LLC (“Manchester”), an investment management firm.
+Added: Besser is also currently a director of River Stone Biotech, a development
+Added: stage specialty bioprocessing company.
He holds a B.A.
in history from Brown University.
−Removed: Besser is qualified to serve as member of our board of directors due to his extensive prior experience conducting financial
−Removed: analysis of public companies (certain of which were in the development stage), including such public companies’ management teams,
−Removed: products, including products in the development stage, the potential markets for such products and other factors that could affect the
−Removed: likelihood and timing of success and market penetration of such entities’ products as well as his capital raising activities.
−Removed: believe this provides us with valuable insights into the financial markets and investment criteria of institutional and other investors
−Removed: as well as capital raising activities.
−Removed: DiPerna has been our chairman, chief financial officer, president and treasurer
−Removed: since we acquired Quasuras, Inc.
−Removed: (Quasuras) in July 2017.
−Removed: He also served as our chief executive officer from July 2017 until August 2021.
−Removed: In 2015, he founded Quasuras, an early-stage medical device company developing an insulin pump product, and, until its acquisition by
−Removed: us, he served as its chief executive officer and chairman.
+Added: We believe that Mr.
+Added: Besser is qualified to serve
+Added: as member of our board of directors due to his extensive prior experience conducting financial analysis of public companies (certain of
+Added: which were in the development stage), including such public companies’ management teams, products, including products in the development
+Added: stage, the potential markets for such products and other factors that could affect the likelihood and timing of success and market penetration
+Added: of such entities’ products as well as his capital raising activities.
+Added: We believe this provides us with valuable insights into the
+Added: financial markets and investment criteria of institutional and other investors as well as capital raising activities.
+Added: Paul DiPerna.
+Added: has been our chairman, chief financial officer, president and treasurer since we acquired Quasuras in July 2017.
+Added: He also served as our
+Added: chief executive officer from July 2017 until August 2021, and as our Secretary from July 2017 to October 2021.
+Added: In 2015, he founded Quasuras,
+Added: an early-stage medical device company developing an insulin pump product, and, until its acquisition by us, he served as its chief executive
+Added: officer and chairman.
Prior to that, Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna founded Fuel Source Partners, LLC to incubate early
−Removed: stage medical device products and accumulate technical talent.
−Removed: Our current pump product was one of such proposed products and was spun-out
−Removed: to Quasuras in 2015.
−Removed: From 2012 to 2015, he served as a co-inventor at a private company with property rights in a medical device used
−Removed: for blood borne infection control called the Curos Cap, which was acquired by 3M Corporation.
−Removed: DiPerna founded Tandem Diabetes
−Removed: (Tandem) and held various positions, including as director, chief executive officer and chief technology officer and was primarily
−Removed: responsible for the design concept and development of Tandem’s initial insulin pump.
−Removed: Prior to that, he held executive and management
−Removed: positions at Baxter Healthcare Corporation (Baxter) where he was tasked with identifying synergistic opportunities in the diabetes industry.
+Added: DiPerna founded Fuel Source Partners, LLC to incubate early stage medical device products and
+Added: accumulate technical talent.
+Added: Our current pump product was one of such proposed products and was spun-out to Quasuras in 2015.
+Added: to 2015, he served as a co-inventor at a private company with property rights in a medical device used for blood borne infection control
+Added: called the Curos Cap, which was acquired by 3M Corporation.
+Added: DiPerna founded Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc.
+Added: and held various positions, including as director, chief executive officer and chief technology officer and was primarily responsible
+Added: for the design concept and development of Tandem’s initial insulin pump.
+Added: Prior to that, he held executive and management positions
+Added: at Baxter Healthcare Corporation (“Baxter”) where he was tasked with identifying synergistic opportunities in the diabetes
As a result, Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna developed substantial expertise and knowledge in the diabetes industry and led attempts by Baxter to acquire
−Removed: three insulin pump manufacturers.
−Removed: Previously, he held mechanical design engineering positions in the automated test equipment and blood
−Removed: separation sciences industries.
−Removed: DiPerna holds 70 patents in medical device and microfluidic technology and has achieved numerous
−Removed: product clearances with the FDA.
+Added: DiPerna developed substantial expertise and knowledge in the diabetes industry and led attempts by Baxter to
+Added: acquire three insulin pump manufacturers.
+Added: Previously, he held mechanical design engineering positions in the automated test equipment
+Added: and blood separation sciences industries.
+Added: DiPerna holds approximately 70 patents in medical device and microfluidic technology and
+Added: has achieved numerous product clearances with the FDA.
He has also achieved multiple successful exits with previous companies.
−Removed: DiPerna received a Masters
−Removed: in Engineering Management from Northeastern University and a B.S.
−Removed: in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts and
−Removed: has spent over 35 years in the medical-device industry.
+Added: received a Masters in Engineering Management from Northeastern University and a B.S.
+Added: in Mechanical Engineering from the University of
+Added: Massachusetts and has spent over 35 years in the medical-device industry.
We believe that Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna is qualified to serve as the chairman of our board
−Removed: of directors due to his extensive knowledge and experience in the medical-device industry generally, and, in particular, with regard
−Removed: to insulin pumps and the diabetes industry, as well as his management and leadership experience from holding director and senior executive
−Removed: positions in other public and private companies and leading project development teams of medical device companies.
+Added: DiPerna is qualified to serve as the chairman
+Added: of our board of directors due to his extensive knowledge and experience in the medical-device industry generally, and, in particular,
+Added: with regard to insulin pumps and the diabetes industry, as well as his management and leadership experience from holding director and
+Added: senior executive positions in other public and private companies and leading project development teams of medical device companies.
+Added: Kevin Schmid .
+Added: has served as our chief operating officer since July 21, 2022.
+Added: He has over 19 years of experience in medical device senior management
+Added: and high-volume global manufacturing operations.
+Added: He served as a consultant to the Company from March 2022 until his hire date.
+Added: has served as a member of the board of directors of Eitan Medical, an Israel based provider of connected infusion and wearable drug delivery
+Added: solutions, since 2018.
+Added: From 2018 through June 2021, he served as the Chief Executive Officer and a board member of Common Sensing, Inc.,
+Added: a disposable injector pen dose monitoring and reporting technology company.
+Added: From 2016 to 2017, Mr.
+Added: Schmid was Vice President of Drug Delivery
+Added: Systems for the Stevanato Group, a provider of innovative packaging and drug delivery solutions for the pharmaceutical industry.
+Added: 2003 to 2015, Mr.
+Added: Schmid was Vice President of Manufacturing, Operations, and Drug Delivery Systems for Insulet Corporation.
+Added: BSME degree from Clarkson University and an MBA from Sacred Heart University.
Febbo was appointed to our board of directors in January 2020.
−Removed: is currently the Chief Executive Officer and a director of OptimizeRx Corporation, a digital health company focused on bringing life
−Removed: sciences support to patients and providers, having joined the company in 2016.
−Removed: Since April 2022, he has served as member of the board
−Removed: of directors of Augmedix, Inc., a Nasdaq-listed provider of automated medical documentation and data services.
−Removed: Febbo founded Plexuus,
−Removed: LLC, a payment processing business for medical professionals in September 2015 and remained its Chairman from September 2015 to December
−Removed: From April 2007 to September 2015, he served as Chief Operating Officer of Merriman Holdings, Inc., an investment banking firm,
−Removed: where he assisted with capital raises in the technology, biotechnology, clean technology, consumer and resources industries.
−Removed: was a co-founder of, and from September 2013 to September 2015 served as Chief Executive Officer of, Digital Capital Network, Inc.
−Removed: transaction platform for institutional and accredited investors.
−Removed: He was a co-founder of, and from January 1999 to September 2015 was
−Removed: Chief Executive Officer of, MedPanel, LLC, a provider of market intelligence and communications for the pharmaceutical, biomedical, and
−Removed: medical device industries.
+Added: He is currently the Chief
+Added: Executive Officer and a director of OptimizeRx Corporation, a digital health company focused on bringing life sciences support to patients
+Added: and providers, having joined the company in 2016.
+Added: Since April 2022, he has served as member of the board of directors of Augmedix, Inc.,
+Added: a Nasdaq-listed provider of automated medical documentation and data services.
+Added: Febbo founded Plexuus, LLC, a payment processing business
+Added: for medical professionals in September 2015 and remained its Chairman from September 2015 to December 2020.
+Added: From April 2007 to September
+Added: 2015, he served as Chief Operating Officer of Merriman Holdings, Inc., an investment banking firm, where he assisted with capital raises
+Added: in the technology, biotechnology, clean technology, consumer and resources industries.
+Added: Febbo was a co-founder of, and from September
+Added: 2013 to September 2015 served as Chief Executive Officer of, Digital Capital Network, Inc.
+Added: a transaction platform for institutional and
+Added: accredited investors.
+Added: He was a co-founder of, and from January 1999 to September 2015 was Chief Executive Officer of, MedPanel, LLC, a
+Added: provider of market intelligence and communications for the pharmaceutical, biomedical, and medical device industries.
Since 2017, Mr.
−Removed: Febbo has been a faculty member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s linQ
−Removed: program, which is a collaborative initiative focused on increasing the potential of innovative research to benefit society and the economy.
−Removed: Since 2004, he has been a board member of the United Nations Association of Greater Boston, a resource for the citizens of Greater Boston
−Removed: on the broad agenda of critical global issues addressed by the United Nations and its agencies.
+Added: Febbo has been a faculty member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s linQ program, which is a collaborative initiative
+Added: focused on increasing the potential of innovative research to benefit society and the economy.
+Added: Since 2004, he has been a board member
+Added: of the United Nations Association of Greater Boston, a resource for the citizens of Greater Boston on the broad agenda of critical global
+Added: issues addressed by the United Nations and its agencies.
He holds a B.A.
−Removed: in international studies
−Removed: and Spanish from Dickinson College.
+Added: in international studies and Spanish from Dickinson College.
We believe that Mr.
−Removed: Febbo is qualified to serve on our board of directors because of his wealth of
−Removed: experience in building and managing health services and financial businesses.
−Removed: Febbo brings more than 20 years of experience in building
−Removed: and managing health services and financial businesses.
−Removed: On January 29, 2018,
−Removed: the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) accepted a Letter of Acceptance, Waiver and Consent (the Consent) submitted by Mr.
+Added: Febbo is qualified to serve on our board of directors because of his wealth of experience in building and managing
+Added: health services and financial businesses.
+Added: Febbo brings more than 20 years of experience in building and managing health services and
+Added: financial businesses.
+Added: On January 29, 2018, the Financial Industry
+Added: Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) accepted a Letter of Acceptance, Waiver and Consent (the “Consent”) submitted by
Without admitting or denying the findings, Mr.
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was the Financial and Operations Principal (“FinOp”) for a registered broker-dealer, Merriman Capital, Inc.
−Removed: During certain
−Removed: months, while Mr.
−Removed: Febbo was FinOp, FINRA found that certain of Merriman’s net capital filings with FINRA were inaccurate because
−Removed: of the method by which Merriman calculated net capital and that, when corrected, it was retroactively determined that Merriman had operated
−Removed: below its minimum net capital requirements.
+Added: (“Merriman”).
+Added: During certain months, while Mr.
+Added: Febbo was FinOp, FINRA found that certain of Merriman’s net capital filings with FINRA were inaccurate
+Added: because of the method by which Merriman calculated net capital and that, when corrected, it was retroactively determined that Merriman
+Added: had operated below its minimum net capital requirements.
Febbo, as FinOp, signed certain of these reports and was thus held responsible.
−Removed: on the Consent, in settlement, Mr.
−Removed: Febbo, who was then no longer registered with any broker-dealer, accepted a fine of $5,000, a 10-business
−Removed: day suspension from acting as FinOp for any FINRA member and required to requalify by examination for the Series 27 license before again
−Removed: acting in a FinOp capacity.
−Removed: Felsher was appointed to our board of directors in November 2021.
−Removed: an experienced executive with respect to finance, administration, governance and other aspects of public and private company management.
−Removed: He has served as a member of the board of directors of Signal Hill Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, since March
−Removed: From August 2018 to July 2020, he served as a member of the board of directors of Sito Mobile, Inc., a publicly-traded company
−Removed: that provided customized, data-driven solutions for brands spanning all forms of media.
+Added: Based on the Consent, in settlement, Mr.
+Added: Febbo, who was then no longer registered with any broker-dealer, accepted a fine of $5,000, a
+Added: 10-business day suspension from acting as FinOp for any FINRA member and required to requalify by examination for the Series 27 license
+Added: before again acting in a FinOp capacity.
+Added: Steven Felsher.
+Added: appointed to our board of directors in November 2021.
+Added: Felsher is an experienced executive with respect to finance, administration,
+Added: governance and other aspects of public and private company management.
+Added: He has served as a member of the board of directors of Signal Hill
+Added: Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, since March 2021.
+Added: From August 2018 to July 2020, he served as a member of the
+Added: board of directors of Sito Mobile, Inc., a publicly-traded company that provided customized, data-driven solutions for brands spanning
+Added: all forms of media.
From January 2011 to June 2019, Mr.
−Removed: a senior advisor at Quadrangle Group LLC, a private investment firm focused on the information and communications technology sectors.
−Removed: He spent a substantial portion of his career with Grey Global Group Inc., a global marketing services company, where he served as a senior
−Removed: executive from 1979 until 2007, most recently as vice chairman and chief financial officer.
−Removed: He holds a BA in classical Greek from Dickinson
−Removed: College and a J.D.
+Added: Felsher was a senior advisor at Quadrangle Group LLC, a private investment firm
+Added: focused on the information and communications technology sectors.
+Added: He spent a substantial portion of his career with Grey Global Group
+Added: Inc., a global marketing services company, where he served as a senior executive from 1979 until 2007, most recently as vice chairman
+Added: and chief financial officer.
+Added: He holds a BA in classical Greek from Dickinson College and a J.D.
from Yale University School of Law.
−Removed: We believe that Mr.
−Removed: Felsher is qualified to serve on our board of directors because
−Removed: of his extensive business experience with administration, governance, capital allocation and other aspects of public and private company
−Removed: Frank was appointed to our board of directors in April 2017.
−Removed: worked with Manchester, LP since May 2002, and, prior to such time, he was a founder and managing director at First Principles Group,
−Removed: a boutique consultancy and principal investor specializing in corporate restructuring, restarts, intellectual property assessment and
−Removed: salvage, and spin outs.
+Added: believe that Mr.
+Added: Felsher is qualified to serve on our board of directors because of his extensive business experience with administration,
+Added: governance, capital allocation and other aspects of public and private company management.
+Added: was appointed to our board of directors in April 2017.
+Added: In August 2022, he was appointed as chairman of the board of directors of SANUWAVE
+Added: Health, Inc., a publicly-traded provider of wound-care products.
+Added: Frank has worked with Manchester, LP since May 2002, and, prior to
+Added: such time, he was a founder and managing director at First Principles Group, a boutique consultancy and principal investor specializing
+Added: in corporate restructuring, restarts, intellectual property assessment and salvage, and spin outs.
Prior to such time, Mr.
−Removed: Frank spent approximately five years as an analyst and portfolio manager at Hollis Capital,
−Removed: a San Francisco based hedge fund and prior thereto, Mr.
−Removed: Frank worked for an independent private client group at Paine Webber specializing
−Removed: in primary research to develop investment ideas (particularly short sale ideas) for institutional clients.
−Removed: Prior to his employment at
−Removed: Paine Webber, Mr.
+Added: approximately five years as an analyst and portfolio manager at Hollis Capital, a San Francisco based hedge fund and prior thereto, Mr.
+Added: Frank worked for an independent private client group at Paine Webber specializing in primary research to develop investment ideas (particularly
+Added: short sale ideas) for institutional clients.
+Added: Prior to his employment at Paine Webber, Mr.
Frank was a currency trader for Eastern Vanguard.
−Removed: Frank holds a BA in Economics and in Political Science from Brown
+Added: Frank holds a BA in Economics and in Political Science from Brown University.
We believe that Mr.
−Removed: Frank is qualified to serve as member of our board of directors due to his extensive prior experience
−Removed: conducting financial analysis of public companies (certain of which were in the development stage), including such public companies’
−Removed: management teams, products, including products in the development stage, the potential markets for such products and other factors that
−Removed: could affect the likelihood and timing of success and market penetration of such entities’ products as well as his capital raising
−Removed: We believe this provides us with valuable insights into the financial markets and investment criteria of institutional and
−Removed: other investors as well as capital raising activities.
−Removed: Sheibley was appointed to our board of directors in November 2021.
−Removed: is an experienced executive and venture capitalist.
−Removed: Since 2011, he has served as a principal at Alumni Investment Partners, a private
+Added: Frank is qualified to serve as member
+Added: of our board of directors due to his extensive prior experience conducting financial analysis of public companies (certain of which were
+Added: in the development stage), including such public companies’ management teams, products, including products in the development stage,
+Added: the potential markets for such products and other factors that could affect the likelihood and timing of success and market penetration
+Added: of such entities’ products as well as his capital raising activities.
+Added: We believe this provides us with valuable insights into the
+Added: financial markets and investment criteria of institutional and other investors as well as capital raising activities.
+Added: Philip Sheibley.
+Added: was appointed to our board of directors in November 2021.
+Added: Sheibley is an experienced executive and venture capitalist.
+Added: he has served as a principal at Alumni Investment Partners, a private equity firm.
From 1981 to 2010, Mr.
−Removed: Sheibley served as a management and technology consultant with Accenture, where he focused on the
−Removed: life sciences area, holding a variety of leadership positions, including North American industry director for life sciences and global
−Removed: lead for management consulting.
+Added: Sheibley served as a management
+Added: and technology consultant with Accenture, where he focused on the life sciences area, holding a variety of leadership positions, including
+Added: North American industry director for life sciences and global lead for management consulting.
Sheibley holds a B.S.
−Removed: in industrial and systems engineering with a business minor from Lehigh University.
+Added: in industrial
+Added: and systems engineering with a business minor from Lehigh University.
We believe that Mr.
−Removed: Sheibley is qualified to serve on our board of directors because of his extensive business experience in the life
−Removed: sciences area and experience with venture capital investment and consulting, including financing transactions for early-stage and scale-up
−Removed: stage companies, assisting with scale-up strategy/execution, and participating as a board member in the medical products industry.
−Removed: appointed to our board of directors in December 2019.
+Added: Sheibley is qualified to serve on our board
+Added: of directors because of his extensive business experience in the life sciences area and experience with venture capital investment and
+Added: consulting, including financing transactions for early- stage and scale-up stage companies, assisting with scale-up strategy/execution,
+Added: and participating as a board member in the medical products industry.
+Added: Carmen Volkart.
+Added: was appointed to our board of directors in December 2019.
She has served as chief financial officer of Natureworks LLC, an advanced materials
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Volkart holds a B.S.
−Removed: in accounting from the University of North Dakota
−Removed: and an MBA with a concentration in strategic management from the University of Minnesota.
+Added: in accounting from the University of North Dakota and an MBA
+Added: with a concentration in strategic management from the University of Minnesota.
We believe that Ms.
−Removed: Volkart is qualified to
−Removed: serve on our board of directors because of her substantial financial and public-company experience, as she has served as chief financial
−Removed: officer at multiple medical device and other companies.
−Removed: O’Connor Vos.
−Removed: Vos was appointed to our board of directors in May 2021 and served as
−Removed: our chief executive officer from August 2021 until February 23, 2022.
+Added: Volkart is qualified to serve on our
+Added: board of directors because of her substantial financial and public-company experience, as she has served as chief financial officer at
+Added: multiple medical device and other companies.
+Added: Ellen O’Connor Vos.
+Added: Vos was appointed to our board of directors in May 2021 and served as our chief executive officer from August 2021 until February 23,
Vos has served as a member of VosHealth LLC since November 2020.
−Removed: Prior to that, she served as the president and chief executive officer of the Muscular Dystrophy Association from October 2017
−Removed: to November 2020.
+Added: Prior to that, she served as the president and chief executive
+Added: officer of the Muscular Dystrophy Association from October 2017 to November 2020.
Previously, Ms.
−Removed: Vos had been chief executive officer of ghg | greyhealth group from 1996 to 2017, and she has been
−Removed: a champion of using digital capabilities to improve the public health.
−Removed: Vos also serves on the board of OptimizeRX Corporation, a
−Removed: publicly-traded digital health company, and the Jed Foundation, a leading nonprofit dedicated to protecting the emotional health of college
−Removed: students, and was a founding board member of MMRF, a pioneering cancer research foundation.
+Added: Vos had been chief executive officer
+Added: of ghg | greyhealth group from 1996 to 2017, and she has been a champion of using digital capabilities to improve the public health.
+Added: Vos also serves on the board of OptimizeRX Corporation, a publicly- traded digital health company, and the Jed Foundation, a leading nonprofit
+Added: dedicated to protecting the emotional health of college students, and was a founding board member of MMRF, a pioneering cancer research
Vos holds a B.S.
−Removed: in nursing from Alfred
+Added: in nursing from Alfred University.
We believe that Ms.
−Removed: Vos is qualified to serve on our board of directors because of her executive experience and extensive
−Removed: executive skills in digital marketing, commercialization and communications in the healthcare industry.
−Removed: in Legal Proceedings
−Removed: Except with regard
+Added: Vos is qualified to serve on our board of directors
+Added: because of her executive experience and extensive executive skills in digital marketing, commercialization and communications in the healthcare
+Added: Involvement in Legal Proceedings
+Added: Except as described above with regard
Febbo, to our knowledge, none of our executive officers or our directors has, during the last ten years:
−Removed: any bankruptcy petition filed by or against the business or property of the person, or of
−Removed: any partnership, corporation or business association of which he was a general partner or
−Removed: executive officer, either at the time of the bankruptcy filing or within two years prior
−Removed: to that time;
−Removed: subject to any order, judgment, or decree, not subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated,
−Removed: of any court of competent jurisdiction or federal or state authority, permanently or temporarily
−Removed: enjoining, barring, suspending or otherwise limiting, his or her involvement in any type
−Removed: of business, securities, futures, commodities, investment, banking, savings and loan, or
−Removed: insurance activities, or to be associated with persons engaged in any such activity;
−Removed: found by a court of competent jurisdiction in a civil action or by the SEC or the Commodity
−Removed: Futures Trading Commission to have violated a federal or state securities or commodities
−Removed: law, and the judgment has not been reversed, suspended, or vacated;
−Removed: the subject of, or a party to, any federal or state judicial or administrative order, judgment,
−Removed: decree, or finding, not subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated (not including any settlement
−Removed: of a civil proceeding among private litigants), relating to an alleged violation of any federal
−Removed: or state securities or commodities law or regulation, any law or regulation respecting financial
−Removed: institutions or insurance companies including, but not limited to, a temporary or permanent
−Removed: injunction, order of disgorgement or restitution, civil money penalty or temporary or permanent
−Removed: cease-and-desist order, or removal or prohibition order, or any law or regulation prohibiting
−Removed: mail or wire fraud or fraud in connection with any business entity;
−Removed: the subject of, or a party to, any sanction or order, not subsequently reversed, suspended
−Removed: or vacated, of any self-regulatory organization (as defined in Section 3(a)(26) of the Exchange
−Removed: Act), any registered entity (as defined in Section 1(a)(29) of the Commodity Exchange Act),
−Removed: or any equivalent exchange, association, entity or organization that has disciplinary authority
−Removed: over its members or persons associated with a member.
−Removed: To our knowledge, there
−Removed: are no material proceedings to which any director, officer or affiliate of ours, any owner of record or beneficially of more than 5%
−Removed: of any class of voting securities of us, or any associate of any such director, officer, affiliate of ours, or security holder is a party
−Removed: adverse to us or any of our subsidiaries or has a material interest adverse to us or any of our subsidiaries.
−Removed: for Appointment of Directors and Officers
+Added: ● had any bankruptcy petition
+Added: filed by or against the business or property of the person, or of any partnership, corporation or business association of which he was
+Added: a general partner or executive officer, either at the time of the bankruptcy filing or within two years prior to that time;
+Added: ● been subject to any order,
+Added: judgment, or decree, not subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated, of any court of competent jurisdiction or federal or state authority,
+Added: permanently or temporarily enjoining, barring, suspending or otherwise limiting, his involvement in any type of business, securities,
+Added: futures, commodities, investment, banking, savings and loan, or insurance activities, or to be associated with persons engaged in any
+Added: such activity;
+Added: ● been found by a court of competent
+Added: jurisdiction in a civil action or by the SEC or the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to have violated a federal or state securities
+Added: or commodities law, and the judgment has not been reversed, suspended, or vacated;
+Added: ● been the subject of, or a party
+Added: to, any federal or state judicial or administrative order, judgment, decree, or finding, not subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated
+Added: (not including any settlement of a civil proceeding among private litigants), relating to an alleged violation of any federal or state
+Added: securities or commodities law or regulation, any law or regulation respecting financial institutions or insurance companies including,
+Added: but not limited to, a temporary or permanent injunction, order of disgorgement or restitution, civil money penalty or temporary or permanent
+Added: cease-and-desist order, or removal or prohibition order, or any law or regulation prohibiting mail or wire fraud or fraud in connection
+Added: with any business entity;
+Added: ● been the subject of, or a party
+Added: to, any sanction or order, not subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated, of any self-regulatory organization (as defined in Section
+Added: 3(a)(26) of the Exchange Act), any registered entity (as defined in Section 1(a)(29) of the Commodity Exchange Act), or any equivalent
+Added: exchange, association, entity or organization that has disciplinary authority over its members or persons associated with a member.
+Added: To our knowledge, there are no
+Added: material proceedings to which any director, officer or affiliate of ours, any owner of record or beneficially of more than 5% of any class
+Added: of voting securities of us, or any associate of any such director, officer, affiliate of ours, or security holder is a party adverse to
+Added: us or any of our subsidiaries or has a material interest adverse to us or any of our subsidiaries.
+Added: Arrangements for Appointment of Directors and Officers
Pursuant to the Reorganization
−Removed: and Share Exchange Agreement dated as of July 24, 2017, by and among us, Quasuras, Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna and the other stockholders of Quasuras
−Removed: (the Share Agreement), until July 24, 2022, our board of directors shall consist of no more than five and no less than two directors
−Removed: of which (i) Manchester has the right to appoint two directors, pursuant to which Manchester appointed Mr.
+Added: and Share Exchange Agreement, hereinafter referred to as the Share Agreement, dated as of July 24, 2017, by and among us, Quasuras, Mr.
+Added: DiPerna and the other stockholders of Quasuras, until July 24, 2022, our board of directors was required to consist of no more than five
+Added: and no less than two directors of which (i) Manchester Explorer, L.P.
+Added: has the right to appoint two directors, pursuant to which Manchester
+Added: Explorer, L.P.
+Added: appointed Mr.
Frank and Ms.
−Removed: DiPerna, in addition to being our chairman of the board, has the right to appoint two additional directors, pursuant to which
−Removed: he appointed Messrs.
−Removed: Burns and Febbo.
−Removed: In May 2021, the parties amended the Share Agreement and removed Manchester’s and Mr.
−Removed: rights to appoint directors.
+Added: Volkart and (ii) Mr.
+Added: DiPerna, in addition to being our chairman of the board, had the right
+Added: to appoint two additional directors, pursuant to which he appointed Liam Burns, who resigned from our board of directors in December 2021,
+Added: In May 2021, the parties amended the Share Agreement and removed Manchester Explorer L.P’s and Mr.
+Added: DiPerna’s rights
+Added: to appoint directors.
In addition, the parties agreed that Mr.
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DiPerna resigns or is otherwise replaced as our chief executive officer, Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna shall remain
−Removed: as chairman of our board of directors for an additional period of three years.
−Removed: Following such amendment, our board of directors increased
−Removed: the size of the board to six members and, on May 18, 2021, appointed Ellen O’Connor Vos to our board.
−Removed: DiPerna Employment and Related Agreements
−Removed: We entered into an
−Removed: employment agreement dated August 1, 2018, with Mr.
+Added: DiPerna shall remain as chairman
+Added: of our board of directors for an additional period of three years.
+Added: Following such amendment, our board of directors increased the size
+Added: of the board to six members and, on May 18, 2021, appointed Ms.
+Added: Vos as a director to our board.
+Added: The DiPerna Employment and Related Agreements
+Added: We entered into an employment
+Added: agreement dated August 1, 2018, with Mr.
DiPerna pursuant to which Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna was employed by us as our chief executive officer
−Removed: and president for an initial 2-year term with automatic one-year renewals.
−Removed: Pursuant to such agreement, we agreed to pay Mr.
−Removed: i) an annual salary of $200,000 in cash, ii) $100,000 per year in fully-vested stock options granted monthly at an exercise price determined
−Removed: by our board of directors in its sole discretion and iii) an annual bonus of $300,000, payable at the discretion of our board of directors,
−Removed: either in shares or in cash.
−Removed: If the board chooses to pay the bonus in shares, such shares will be valued at a price determined by our
−Removed: board of directors.
+Added: DiPerna is employed by us as our president.
+Added: employment agreement had an initial two-year term and automatically renews for additional one-year terms.
+Added: Pursuant to such agreement,
+Added: we agreed to pay Mr.
+Added: i) an annual salary of $200,000 in cash, ii) $100,000 per year in fully-vested stock options granted monthly
+Added: at an exercise price determined by our board of directors in its sole discretion and iii) an annual bonus of $300,000, payable at the
+Added: discretion of our board of directors, either in shares or in cash.
+Added: If the board chooses to pay the bonus in shares, such shares will be
+Added: valued at a price determined by our board of directors.
Pursuant to such employment agreement (i) if (a) we terminate Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna’s employment without cause or he
−Removed: resigns with good reason, we will pay Mr.
+Added: employment without cause or he resigns with good reason, we will pay Mr.
DiPerna a lump sum of $200,000, and (b) we terminate Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna’s employment for cause,
−Removed: we are not obligated to make any severance payment and Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna will receive only his base compensation through the last day of his
−Removed: employment, (ii) upon Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna’s death or disability, he will receive his base compensation through the last day of his employment
−Removed: and will remain eligible for all applicable benefits relative to death or disability pursuant to any plans that we have in place at such
−Removed: time, and (iii) upon a change of control (as defined in the employment agreement), Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna will be paid a lump sum of $100,000 within
−Removed: sixty days of the time at which such change of control takes place.
−Removed: we amended our employment agreement with Mr.
+Added: employment for cause, we are not obligated to make any severance payment and Mr.
+Added: DiPerna will receive only his base compensation through
+Added: the last day of his employment, (ii) upon Mr.
+Added: DiPerna’s death or disability, he will receive his base compensation through the last
+Added: day of his employment and will remain eligible for all applicable benefits relative to death or disability pursuant to any plans that
+Added: we have in place at such time, and (iii) upon a change of control (as defined in the employment agreement), Mr.
+Added: DiPerna will be paid a
+Added: lump sum of $100,000 within sixty days of the time at which such change of control takes place.
+Added: In May 2020, we amended our employment agreement with Mr.
DiPerna to provide that in the event of a change in control:
−Removed: 60 days of the date the change in control occurs, Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna shall be paid by us or our
−Removed: successor in interest a lump sum cash payment equal to 12 months of Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna’s then
−Removed: annual Base Compensation (as defined in the employment agreement);
−Removed: · immediately
−Removed: prior to such change of control, any unvested stock options or other unvested securities
−Removed: of ours issued to Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna shall automatically accelerate and immediately become fully
−Removed: vested and exercisable.
−Removed: In June 2020, our board
−Removed: of directors approved an amendment to the employment agreement to provide that Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna’s base salary would be paid entirely
−Removed: in cash commencing July 1, 2020.
+Added: ● within 60 days of the date
+Added: the change in control occurs, Mr.
+Added: DiPerna shall be paid by us or our successor in interest a lump sum cash payment equal to 12 months
+Added: DiPerna’s then annual Base Compensation (as defined in the employment agreement);
+Added: ● immediately prior to such change
+Added: of control, any unvested stock options or other unvested securities of ours issued to Mr.
+Added: DiPerna shall automatically accelerate and
+Added: immediately become fully vested and exercisable.
+Added: In June 2020, our board of directors
+Added: approved an amendment to the employment agreement to provide that Mr.
+Added: DiPerna’s base salary would be paid entirely in cash commencing
+Added: July 1, 2020.
The payment of the additional cash component of Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna’s annual base salary ($8,333.33 per
−Removed: month) was initially be deferred (the Deferred Salary) and accrue for Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna’s benefit until the Company has received $5,000,000
−Removed: of cumulative gross proceeds of financing, at which time the Deferred Salary shall be paid to Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna and the salary deferrals will
−Removed: The salary deferrals ceased and the Deferred Salary was paid to Mr.
+Added: DiPerna’s annual base salary ($8,333.33 per month) was initially
+Added: be deferred (the Deferred Salary) and accrue for Mr.
+Added: DiPerna’s benefit until we have received $5,000,000 of cumulative gross proceeds
+Added: of financing, at which time the Deferred Salary shall be paid to Mr.
+Added: DiPerna and the salary deferrals will cease.
+Added: The salary deferrals
+Added: ceased and the Deferred Salary was paid to Mr.
DiPerna in May 2021.
In August 2021, Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna resigned
−Removed: as our chief executive officer, and he continues to serve as our president, chief financial officer, treasurer and chairman of our board
−Removed: of directors.
−Removed: If a change of control
−Removed: occurred on March 31, 2022, under his employment agreement, Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna would be entitled to:
−Removed: of a lump sum of $300,000 within 60 days of the time at which such change of control takes
−Removed: · accelerated
−Removed: vesting of 27,778 shares of common stock under an unvested stock option.
−Removed: The value of the
−Removed: shares subject to accelerated vesting is calculated as the intrinsic value per share multiplied
−Removed: by the number of shares that would become fully vested upon a change of control.
−Removed: The intrinsic
−Removed: value per share would be calculated as the excess of the closing price of the common stock
−Removed: of $4.40 on the Nasdaq Capital Market on March 31, 2022 over the exercise price of the option.
+Added: DiPerna resigned as our chief executive officer,
+Added: and he continues to serve as our president, chief financial officer, treasurer and chairman of our board of directors.
+Added: If a change of control occurred on March 31, 2023,
+Added: under his employment agreement, Mr.
+Added: DiPerna would be entitled to the following:
+Added: ● payment of a lump sum of $300,000
+Added: within 60 days of the time at which such change of control takes place.
+Added: ● accelerated vesting of 45,000
+Added: shares of common stock under an unvested stock option.
+Added: The value of the shares subject to accelerated vesting is calculated as the intrinsic
+Added: value per share multiplied by the number of shares that would become fully vested upon a change of control.
+Added: The intrinsic value per share
+Added: would be calculated as the excess of the closing price of the common stock of $1.45 on the Nasdaq Capital Market on March 31, 2023 over
+Added: the exercise price of the option.
As of March 31, 2023, the intrinsic value was zero.
−Removed: In connection with
−Removed: our acquisition of Quasuras, we entered into an Intellectual Property Transfer Agreement dated as of July 24, 2017, with Quasuras and
−Removed: DiPerna, pursuant to which Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna transferred to us all intellectual property rights owned directly and/or indirectly by him
−Removed: related to our business.
+Added: In connection with our acquisition
+Added: of Quasuras, we entered into an Intellectual Property Transfer Agreement dated as of July 24, 2017, with Quasuras and Mr.
+Added: DiPerna, pursuant
+Added: DiPerna transferred to us all intellectual property rights owned directly and/or indirectly by him related to our business.
Separately, we agreed to pay Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna, as part of his compensation for services to be performed for us, pursuant
−Removed: to a royalty agreement, certain fees based upon future sales, if any, of our potential product subject to a maximum $10,000,000 cap on
−Removed: the aggregate amount of fees that Mr.
+Added: DiPerna, as part of his compensation for services to be performed for us, pursuant to a royalty agreement,
+Added: certain fees based upon future sales, if any, of our potential product subject to a maximum $10,000,000 cap on the aggregate amount of
+Added: fees that Mr.
DiPerna could earn from such arrangement.
−Removed: Vos Employment Agreement
−Removed: On August 11, 2021,
−Removed: we entered into a two-year employment agreement (the Agreement) with Ms.
+Added: The Vos Employment Agreement
+Added: On August 11, 2021, we entered
+Added: into a two-year employment agreement (the “Agreement”) with Ms.
Vos for her service as our chief executive officer, and the
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a cash salary of $250,000 per year (the
−Removed: Cash Salary), plus deferred salary of $50,000 per year (the Deferred Salary and, together with the Cash Salary, the Base Compensation).
−Removed: February 23, 2022, Ms.
−Removed: Vos informed our board of directors that she was resigning from her position as our chief executive officer,
−Removed: effective immediately (the Resignation).
+Added: “Cash Salary”), plus deferred salary of $50,000 per year (the Deferred Salary and, together with the Cash Salary, the “Base
+Added: Compensation”).
+Added: On February 23, 2022, Ellen O’Connor Vos
+Added: informed our board of directors of that she was resigning from her position as our chief executive officer, effective immediately (the
+Added: “Resignation”).
In connection with the Resignation, we and Ms.
−Removed: Vos entered into a Severance and Release
−Removed: Agreement dated February 23, 2022 (the Separation Agreement).
+Added: Vos entered into a Severance and Release Agreement dated February
+Added: 23, 2022 (the Separation Agreement).
Pursuant to the Separation Agreement, Ms.
−Removed: Vos is entitled to receive
−Removed: separation payments in an aggregate gross amount of $375,000.
−Removed: Under the terms of the Separation Agreement, the vesting of an option
−Removed: to purchase 362,452 shares of the Company’s common stock, which was granted to Ms.
−Removed: Vos on August 11, 2021, ceased
−Removed: on May 24, 2022 and the remaining unvested shares were forfeited.
−Removed: Communications
−Removed: with our Board of Directors
−Removed: Stockholders who desire
−Removed: to communicate with the board of directors, or a specific director, may do so by sending the communication addressed to either the corporate
−Removed: secretary, the board of directors or any individual director, c/o Modular Medical, Inc., 16772 West Bernardo Drive, San Diego, California
−Removed: These communications will be delivered to the board of directors, or any individual director, as specified.
−Removed: Leadership Structure and Role in Risk Oversight
−Removed: Due to the small size
−Removed: and early stage of the Company, we have not adopted a formal policy on whether the chairman and chief executive officer positions should
−Removed: be separate or combined.
+Added: Vos was entitled to receive separation payments in an aggregate
+Added: gross amount of $375,000.
+Added: Under the terms of the Separation Agreement, the vesting of an option to purchase 362,452 shares of our common
+Added: stock, which was granted to Ms.
+Added: Vos on August 11, 2021, ceased on May 24, 2022 and the remaining unvested shares were forfeited.
+Added: The Schmid Offer Letter
+Added: Pursuant to an offer letter with the Company (the
+Added: “Offer Letter”), Mr.
+Added: Schmid shall receive an annual salary of $250,000 (the “Schmid Base Salary”).
+Added: Additionally,
+Added: he is eligible for an annual discretionary target incentive bonus of up to 50% of his Base Salary.
+Added: In connection with his appointment,
+Added: Schmid was granted a stock option to purchase 175,000 shares of our common stock.
+Added: The stock option vests over a three-year period
+Added: with one-third of the shares subject to the stock option vesting on the one-year anniversary of the grant date and the remaining shares
+Added: vesting monthly thereafter, subject to Mr.
+Added: Schmid’s continuous service with us.
+Added: In the event of termination of his employment by
+Added: us other than for cause or good reason (as defined in the Offer Letter), Mr.
+Added: Schmid will receive an amount equal to six months of his
+Added: then-current base salary as a severance payment.
+Added: As compensation for his services
+Added: as our Chief Executive Officer, Mr.
+Added: Besser is paid de minimis compensation of $1.00 per year.
+Added: Communications with our Board of Directors
+Added: Stockholders who desire to communicate
+Added: with the board of directors, or a specific director, may do so by sending the communication addressed to either the board of directors
+Added: or any individual director, c/o Modular Medical, Inc., 10740 Thornmint Road, San Diego, California 92127.
+Added: These communications will be
+Added: delivered to the board of directors, or any individual director, as specified.
+Added: Corporate Governance
+Added: Board Leadership Structure
+Added: and Role in Risk Oversight
+Added: Due to the small size and early
+Added: stage of the Company, we have not adopted a formal policy on whether the chairman and chief executive officer positions should be separate
Since 2017, Mr.
DiPerna has been serving as our chairman, and, since February 23, 2022, Mr.
−Removed: Besser has been
−Removed: serving as our chief executive officer.
+Added: Besser has been serving as our
+Added: chief executive officer.
Our board of directors has oversight responsibility for our risk management processes.
−Removed: of directors receives and reviews periodic reports from management, auditors, legal counsel, and others, as considered appropriate, regarding
−Removed: our assessment of risks.
−Removed: Our board of directors will focus on the most significant risks facing us and our general risk management strategy,
−Removed: and also ensure that risks undertaken by us are consistent with our appetite for risk.
−Removed: While our board of directors oversees our risk
−Removed: management processes, management is responsible for day-to-day risk management processes.
−Removed: We believe this division of responsibilities
−Removed: is the most effective approach for addressing the risks facing us and that the leadership structure of our board of directors supports
−Removed: this approach.
−Removed: We have established
−Removed: an audit committee, a compensation committee, and a nominating and governance committee.
−Removed: Each committee’s members and functions
−Removed: are described below.
−Removed: directors established the audit committee (the Audit Committee) for the purpose of overseeing the accounting and financial reporting
−Removed: processes and audits of our financial statements.
−Removed: The Audit Committee also is charged with reviewing any internal control violations
−Removed: under our whistleblower policy.
−Removed: The responsibilities of our audit committee are described in the Audit Committee Charter adopted by our
−Removed: board of directors, a current copy of which can be found on the investors section of our website, www.modular-medical.com.
−Removed: Sheibley are the current members of the Audit Committee.
−Removed: Felsher serves as the chairperson and has been designated by the
−Removed: board of directors as the “audit committee financial expert,” as defined by Item 407(d)(5) of Regulation S-K under the Securities
−Removed: Act of 1933, as amended, and the Exchange Act.
−Removed: That status does not impose duties, liabilities or obligations that are greater than the
−Removed: duties, liabilities or obligations otherwise imposed on her as a member of the audit committee and the board of directors, however.
−Removed: board of directors has determined that each of our Audit Committee members satisfies the “independence” requirements of the
−Removed: Nasdaq listing rules and meets the independence standards under Rule 10A-3 under the Exchange Act.
Our board of directors
−Removed: established a compensation committee for the purpose of reviewing, recommending
−Removed: and approving our compensation policies and benefits, including the compensation of all of our executive officers and directors .
+Added: receives and reviews periodic reports from management, auditors, legal counsel, and others, as considered appropriate, regarding our assessment
+Added: Our board of directors will focus on the most significant risks facing us and our general risk management strategy, and also
+Added: ensure that risks undertaken by us are consistent with our appetite for risk.
+Added: While our board of directors oversees our risk management
+Added: processes, management is responsible for day-to- day risk management processes.
+Added: We believe this division of responsibilities is the most
+Added: effective approach for addressing the risks facing us and that the leadership structure of our board of directors supports this approach.
+Added: We have established an audit committee,
+Added: a compensation committee, and a nominating and governance committee.
+Added: Each committee’s members and functions are described below.
+Added: Audit Committee
+Added: Our board of directors established
+Added: the audit committee (the Audit Committee) for the purpose of overseeing the accounting and financial reporting processes and audits of
+Added: our financial statements.
+Added: The Audit Committee also is charged with reviewing any internal control violations under our whistleblower policy.
+Added: The responsibilities of our audit committee are described in the Audit Committee Charter adopted by our board of directors, a current
+Added: copy of which can be found on the investors section of our website, www.modular-medical.com.
+Added: Felsher and Mr.
+Added: Sheibley are the
+Added: current members of the Audit Committee.
+Added: Felsher serves as the chairperson and has been designated by the board of directors as the
+Added: “audit committee financial expert,” as defined by Item 407(d)(5) of Regulation S-K under the Securities Act and the Exchange
+Added: That status does not impose duties, liabilities or obligations that are greater than the duties, liabilities or obligations otherwise
+Added: imposed on Mr.
+Added: Felsher as a member of the audit committee and the board of directors, however.
+Added: Our board of directors has determined that
+Added: each of our Audit Committee members satisfies the “independence” requirements of the Nasdaq listing rules and meets the independence
+Added: standards under Rule 10A-3 under the Exchange Act.
+Added: Compensation Committee
+Added: Our board of directors established
+Added: the compensation committee for the purpose of reviewing, recommending and approving our compensation policies and benefits, including
+Added: the compensation of all of our executive officers and directors.
Febbo and Ms.
−Removed: Volkart are the current members of the compensation committee, and Mr.
+Added: Volkart are the current members of the compensation
+Added: committee, and Mr.
Febbo serves as the chairperson.
−Removed: our compensation committee members satisfies the “independence” requirements of the Nasdaq listing rules and meets the independence
−Removed: standards under Rule 10A-3 under the Exchange Act.
−Removed: compensation committee is responsible for reviewing, recommending and approving our compensation policies and benefits, including the
−Removed: compensation of all of our executive officers and directors, and it also has the principal responsibility for the administration of our
−Removed: equity incentive plan.
−Removed: The responsibilities of our compensation committee are more fully described in the Compensation Committee Charter
−Removed: adopted by our board of directors, a current copy of which can be found on the investors section of our website, www.modular-medical.com.
−Removed: and Corporate Governance Committee
−Removed: The Nominating and
−Removed: Governance Committee consists of Mr.
+Added: Each of our Compensation Committee members satisfies the “independence”
+Added: requirements of the Nasdaq listing rules and meets the independence standards under Rule 10A-3 under the Exchange Act.
+Added: Our compensation committee is responsible
+Added: for reviewing, recommending and approving our compensation policies and benefits, including the compensation of all of our executive officers
+Added: and directors, and it also has the principal responsibility for the administration of our equity incentive plan.
+Added: The responsibilities
+Added: of our compensation committee are more fully described in the Compensation Committee Charter adopted by our board of directors, a current
+Added: copy of which can be found on the investors section of our website, www.modular-medical.com.
+Added: Nominating and Corporate Governance
+Added: The Nominating and Governance Committee consists
Sheibley and Mr.
1 unchanged sentence
Sheibley serves as the chairperson.
−Removed: Each of the members of our
−Removed: Nominating and Governance Committee satisfies the “independence” requirements of the Nasdaq listing rules and meets the independence
−Removed: standards under Rule 10A-3 under the Exchange Act.
−Removed: The Nominating and Governance Committee will consider persons recommended by stockholders
−Removed: for inclusion as nominees for election to our board of directors if the information required by our bylaws is submitted in writing in
−Removed: a timely manner addressed and delivered to our secretary at the address of our executive offices.
−Removed: The Nominating and
−Removed: Governance Committee will identify and evaluate nominees for our board of directors, including nominees recommended by stockholders,
−Removed: based on numerous factors it considers appropriate, some of which may include strength of character, mature judgment, career specialization,
−Removed: relevant technical skills, diversity, and the extent to which the nominee would fill a present need on our board of directors.
−Removed: The responsibilities
−Removed: of our Nominating and Governance committee are more fully described in the Nominating and Governance Committee Charter adopted by our
−Removed: board of directors, a current copy of which can be found on the investors section of our website, www.modular-medical.com.
−Removed: of Business Conduct and Ethics for Employees, Executive Officers and Directors
−Removed: We have adopted a Code
−Removed: of Business Conduct and Ethics, or the Code of Conduct, applicable to all of our employees, executive officers and members of our board
−Removed: of directors.
+Added: Each of the members of our Nominating and Governance Committee
+Added: satisfies the “independence” requirements of the Nasdaq listing rules and meets the independence standards under Rule 10A-3
+Added: under the Exchange Act.
+Added: The Nominating and Governance Committee will consider persons recommended by stockholders for inclusion as nominees
+Added: for election to our board of directors if the information required by our bylaws is submitted in writing in a timely manner addressed
+Added: and delivered to our secretary at the address of our executive offices.
+Added: The Nominating and Governance Committee will
+Added: identify and evaluate nominees for our board of directors, including nominees recommended by stockholders, based on numerous factors it
+Added: considers appropriate, some of which may include strength of character, mature judgment, career specialization, relevant technical skills,
+Added: diversity, and the extent to which the nominee would fill a present need on our board of directors.
+Added: The responsibilities of our Nominating
+Added: and Governance committee are more fully described in the Nominating and Governance Committee Charter adopted by our board of directors,
+Added: a current copy of which can be found on the investors section of our website, www.modular-medical.com.
+Added: Code of Business Conduct and Ethics for Employees,
+Added: Executive Officers and Directors
+Added: We have adopted a Code of Business
+Added: Conduct and Ethics, or the Code of Conduct, applicable to all of our employees, executive officers and members of our board of directors.
The Code of Conduct is available on our website at www.modular-medical.com.
−Removed: Our Nominating and Governance Committee is
−Removed: responsible for overseeing the Code of Conduct, and our board of directors must approve any waivers of the Code of Conduct.
−Removed: we intend to post on our website all disclosures that are required by law concerning any amendments to, or waivers from, any provision
−Removed: of the Code of Conduct.
−Removed: We seek diversity in
−Removed: experience, viewpoint, education, skill, and other individual qualities and attributes to be represented on our board of directors.
−Removed: believe directors should have various qualifications, including individual character and integrity;
+Added: Our Nominating and Governance Committee is responsible for
+Added: overseeing the Code of Conduct, and our board of directors must approve any waivers of the Code of Conduct.
+Added: In addition, we intend to
+Added: post on our website all disclosures that are required by law concerning any amendments to, or waivers from, any provision of the Code
+Added: Board Diversity
+Added: We seek diversity in experience,
+Added: viewpoint, education, skill, and other individual qualities and attributes to be represented on our board of directors.
+Added: We believe directors
+Added: should have various qualifications, including individual character and integrity;
business experience;
leadership ability;
−Removed: strategic planning skills, ability, and experience;
+Added: strategic planning
+Added: skills, ability, and experience;
requisite knowledge of our industry and finance, accounting, and legal matters;
−Removed: communications
−Removed: and interpersonal skills;
+Added: communications and interpersonal
and the ability and willingness to devote time to our company.
−Removed: We also believe the skill sets, backgrounds,
−Removed: and qualifications of our directors, taken as a whole, should provide a significant mix of diversity in personal and professional experience,
−Removed: background, viewpoints, perspectives, knowledge, and abilities.
−Removed: Nominees are not to be discriminated against on the basis of race, religion,
−Removed: national origin, sex, sexual orientation, disability, or any other basis proscribed by law.
−Removed: The assessment of prospective directors is
−Removed: made in the context of the perceived needs of our board of directors from time to time.
−Removed: All of our directors
−Removed: have held high-level positions in business or professional service firms and have experience in dealing with complex issues.
−Removed: that all of our directors are individuals of high character and integrity, are able to work well with others, and have committed to devote
−Removed: sufficient time to the business and affairs of our company.
−Removed: In addition to these attributes, the description of each director’s
−Removed: background set forth above indicates the specific qualifications, skills, perspectives, and experience necessary to conclude that each
−Removed: individual should continue to serve as a director of ours.
−Removed: Section 16(a) Reports
−Removed: Section 16(a) of
−Removed: the Exchange Act requires our directors, executive officers and persons who own more than 10% of a registered class of our equity securities
−Removed: to file with the SEC initial reports of ownership and reports of changes in ownership of common stock and other equity securities of
−Removed: Directors, executive officers and greater than 10% holders are required by SEC regulation to furnish us with copies of all Section 16(a) reports
−Removed: Based on our review of Forms 3 and 4 filed during fiscal 2022 (and any written representations to us by such persons),
−Removed: we believe that all directors, executive officers and 10% stockholders complied with all applicable Section 16(a) filing requirements
−Removed: during fiscal 2022, except that:
−Removed: DiPerna failed to timely file a Form 4;
−Removed: Felsher failed to timely file a Form 3 and a Form 4;
−Removed: Febbo failed to timely file a Form 4.
+Added: We also believe the skill sets, backgrounds, and qualifications
+Added: of our directors, taken as a whole, should provide a significant mix of diversity in personal and professional experience, background,
+Added: viewpoints, perspectives, knowledge, and abilities.
+Added: Nominees are not to be discriminated against on the basis of race, religion, national
+Added: origin, sex, sexual orientation, disability, or any other basis proscribed by law.
+Added: The assessment of prospective directors is made in
+Added: the context of the perceived needs of our board of directors from time to time.
+Added: All of our directors have held high-level
+Added: positions in business or professional service firms and have experience in dealing with complex issues.
+Added: We believe that all of our directors
+Added: are individuals of high character and integrity, are able to work well with others, and have committed to devote sufficient time to the
+Added: business and affairs of our company.
+Added: In addition to these attributes, the description of each director’s background set forth above
+Added: indicates the specific qualifications, skills, perspectives, and experience necessary to conclude that each individual should continue
+Added: to serve as a director of ours.
+Added: Delinquent Section 16(a) Reports
+Added: Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act requires our
+Added: directors, executive officers and persons who own more than 10% of a registered class of our equity securities to file with the SEC initial
+Added: reports of ownership and reports of changes in ownership of common stock and other equity securities of ours.
+Added: Directors, executive officers
+Added: and greater than 10% holders are required by SEC regulation to furnish us with copies of all Section 16(a) reports they file.
+Added: our review of Forms 3 and 4 filed during fiscal 2023 (and any written representations to us by such persons), we believe that all directors,
+Added: executive officers and 10% stockholders complied with all applicable Section 16(a) filing requirements during fiscal 2023, except that:
+Added: Felsher failed to timely file a Form 4 to report an option award under our director compensation plan;
+Added: Frank failed to timely file a Form 4 to report two option awards under our director compensation plan
+Added: Sheibley failed to timely file:
+Added: Form 4 to report an open-market purchase of shares of our common stock;
+Added: Form 4 to report a stock award under our director compensation plan;
+Added: Form 4 to report a stock award under our director compensation plan.
+Added: Schmid failed to timely a Form 3 to report his initial beneficial ownership;
+Added: Volkart failed to timely file a Form 4 to report an option award under our director compensation plan;
+Added: Vos failed to timely file a Form 4 to report an option award under our director compensation plan.
EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
−Removed: COMPENSATION TABLE
−Removed: The following table sets forth compensation
−Removed: information for fiscal 2022 and 2021 for each of our named executive officers.
+Added: SUMMARY COMPENSATION TABLE
+Added: The following table sets forth compensation information
+Added: for fiscal 2023 and 2022 for each of our named executive officers.
Name and Principal
−Removed: Paul DiPerna, President, Chief Financial Officer,
+Added: Option Awards
+Added: Non-Equity Incentive Plan
+Added: Chief Executive Officer (2)
+Added: President, President Chief Financial Officer,
Treasurer and Chairman
−Removed: Besser, Chief Executive Officer (5)
−Removed: Ellen O’Connor Vos, Chief Executive Officer (6)
−Removed: Stephen Daly, Chief Commercial Officer (8)
−Removed: amounts reflect the aggregate grant date fair value with respect to awards granted, as determined pursuant to FASB ASC Topic
−Removed: The assumptions used to calculate the aggregate grant date fair value of option awards are set forth in the notes to the consolidated
−Removed: financial statements included in item 8 of this Report.
−Removed: These amounts do not reflect actual compensation earned or to be earned by
−Removed: our named executive officers.
−Removed: August 2018 until June 30, 2020, Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna’s $300,000 annual salary was paid $200,000 in cash and $100,000 in fully-vested
−Removed: stock options granted monthly.
−Removed: payment of $70,833 of deferred salary.
−Removed: as a bonus of which $22,000 was paid on April 30, 2021, and the remainder was paid in quarterly installments commencing on July 15,
−Removed: Besser was appointed our chief executive officer in February 2022 and is paid de minimis
−Removed: compensation of $1.00 per year .
−Removed: Vos was appointed our chief executive officer in August 2021 at an annual cash salary of $250,000 per year plus deferred salary of
−Removed: $50,000 per year.
−Removed: She resigned as our chief executive officer in February 2022.
−Removed: The compensation amounts disclosed in the table above
−Removed: exclude amounts paid to Ms.
+Added: Kevin Schmid,
+Added: Chief Operating Officer
+Added: Ellen O’Connor Vos,
+Added: Chief Executive Officer (5)
+Added: (1) Award amounts reflect the aggregate grant date fair value with
+Added: respect to awards granted, as determined pursuant to Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) ASC Topic 718.
+Added: The assumptions used
+Added: to calculate the aggregate grant date fair value of option awards are set forth in the notes to the consolidated financial statements
+Added: included in item 8 of this Report.
+Added: These amounts do not reflect actual compensation earned or to be earned by our named executive officers.
+Added: Besser was appointed our chief executive officer in February
+Added: 2022, and he is paid de minimis annual compensation of $1.00.
+Added: (3) Includes payment of $70,833 of deferred salary.
+Added: Schmid was appointed our chief operating officer in July
+Added: 2022 at an annual base salary of $250,000.
+Added: Vos was appointed our chief executive officer in August
+Added: 2021, and she resigned as our chief executive officer in February 2022.The compensation amounts disclosed in the table above exclude
+Added: amounts paid to Ms.
Vos for her service as a non-employee director.
−Removed: payment during fiscal 2022 of i) accrued holiday and vacation pay, ii) deferred salary and
−Removed: iii) three months of salary for the notice period and accrued severance of $300,000 that
−Removed: will be paid in fiscal 2023.
−Removed: Daly became our chief commercial officer in
−Removed: March 2020 at an annual base salary of $250,000.
−Removed: In February 2021, Mr.
−Removed: Daly converted to part time, and his annual base salary was
−Removed: reduced to $125,000.
−Removed: Daly resigned as our Chief Commercial Officer in September 2021, and we and Mr.
−Removed: Daly entered into a consulting
−Removed: arrangement pursuant to which Mr.
−Removed: Daly provides services to us on a part-time basis.
−Removed: Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End
−Removed: The following
−Removed: table shows certain information regarding outstanding equity awards held by our named executive officers as of March 31, 2022.
+Added: (6) Represents payment during fiscal 2022 of i) accrued holiday
+Added: and vacation pay, ii) deferred salary and iii) three months of salary for the notice period and accrued severance of $300,000 that was
+Added: Vos in fiscal 2023.
+Added: Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End
+Added: The following table shows certain information regarding
+Added: outstanding equity awards held by our named executive officers as of March 31, 2023.
Unexercisable
−Removed: standard option term is ten years, but all of the options expire automatically unless exercised within 90 days after the cessation
−Removed: of service as an employee, director or consultant.
−Removed: option was granted on June 1, 2020, and the shares subject to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
−Removed: option was granted on May 1, 2020, and the shares subject to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
−Removed: option was granted on April 1, 2020, and the shares subject to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
−Removed: option was granted on March 2, 2020, and the shares subject to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
−Removed: option was granted on February 1,2020, and the shares subject to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
−Removed: option was granted on January 1, 2020, and the shares subject to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
−Removed: option was granted on December 1, 2019, and the shares subject to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
−Removed: option was granted on November 1, 2019, and the shares subject to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
−Removed: option was granted on October 1, 2019, and the shares subject to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
−Removed: option was granted on September 15, 2019, and the shares subject to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
−Removed: option was granted on August 15, 2019, and the shares subject to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
−Removed: option was granted on July 15, 2019, and the shares subject to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
−Removed: option was granted on June 15, 2019, and the shares subject to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
−Removed: option was granted on May 15, 2019, and the shares subject to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
−Removed: option was granted on April 15, 2019, and the shares subject to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
−Removed: option was granted on March 15, 2019, and the shares subject to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
−Removed: option was granted on February 15, 2019, and the shares subject to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
−Removed: option was granted on January 15, 2019, and the shares subject to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
−Removed: option was granted on December 15, 2018, and the shares subject to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
−Removed: option was granted on November 15, 2018, and the shares subject to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
−Removed: option was granted on October 15, 2018, and the shares subject to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
−Removed: option was granted on September 15, 2018, and the shares subject to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
−Removed: option was granted on August 15, 2018, and the shares subject to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
−Removed: option was granted on November 25, 2019, and the shares subject to this option vest monthly over three years commencing January 1, 2020,
+Added: (1) The standard option term is ten years, but all of the options
+Added: expire automatically unless exercised within 90 days after the cessation of service as an employee, director or consultant.
+Added: (2) The option was granted on June 1, 2020, and the shares subject
+Added: to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
+Added: (3) The option was granted on May 1, 2020, and the shares subject
+Added: to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
+Added: (4) The option was granted on April 1, 2020, and the shares subject
+Added: to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
+Added: (5) The option was granted on March 2, 2020, and the shares subject
+Added: to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
+Added: (6) The option was granted on February 1,2020, and the shares subject
+Added: to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
+Added: (7) The option was granted on January 1, 2020, and the shares subject
+Added: to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
+Added: (8) The option was granted on December 1, 2019, and the shares subject
+Added: to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
+Added: (9) The option was granted on November 1, 2019, and the shares subject
+Added: to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
+Added: (10) The option was granted on October 1, 2019, and the shares subject
+Added: to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
+Added: (11) The option was granted on September 15, 2019, and the shares
+Added: subject to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
+Added: (12) The option was granted on August 15, 2019, and the shares subject
+Added: to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
+Added: (13) The option was granted on July 15, 2019, and the shares subject
+Added: to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
+Added: (14) The option was granted on June 15, 2019, and the shares subject
+Added: to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
+Added: (15) The option was granted on May 15, 2019, and the shares subject
+Added: to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
+Added: (16) The option was granted on April 15, 2019, and the shares subject
+Added: to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
+Added: (17) The option was granted on March 15, 2019, and the shares subject
+Added: to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
+Added: (18) The option was granted on February 15, 2019, and the shares
+Added: subject to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
+Added: (19) The option was granted on January 15, 2019, and the shares subject
+Added: to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
+Added: (20) The option was granted on December 15, 2018, and the shares
+Added: subject to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
+Added: (21) The option was granted on November 15, 2018, and the shares
+Added: subject to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
+Added: (22) The option was granted on October
+Added: 15, 2018, and the shares subject to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
+Added: (23) The option was granted on September 15, 2018, and the shares
+Added: subject to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
+Added: (24) The option was granted on August 15, 2018, and the shares subject to this option were fully vested on the grant date.
+Added: (25) The option was granted on November 25, 2019, and the shares subject to this option vest monthly over
+Added: three years commencing January 1, 2020, subject to continued service as an employee, director or consultant.
+Added: (26) The option was granted on April 14, 2022, and the shares subject
+Added: to this option vest one-third on the annual anniversary of the grant date and the remaining two-thirds vest monthly over the next two
+Added: years subject to continued service as an employee, director or consultant
+Added: (27) The option was granted on July 21, 2022, and the shares subject to
+Added: this option vest one-third on the annual anniversary of the grant date and the remaining two-thirds vest monthly over the next two years
subject to continued service as an employee, director or consultant.
−Removed: We have entered into
−Removed: our standard form of employment, confidential information and invention assignment agreement with each of our named executive officers.
−Removed: We also have entered into agreements to indemnify our directors and executive officers, in addition to the indemnification provided for
−Removed: in our certificate of incorporation and bylaws.
−Removed: These agreements, among other things, provide for indemnification of our directors and
−Removed: certain executive officers for many expenses, including attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines and settlement amounts incurred by any
−Removed: such person in any action or proceeding, including any action by or in the right of the Company, arising out of such person’s services
−Removed: as a director or executive officer of ours, any subsidiary of ours or any other company or enterprise to which such person provided services
−Removed: at our request.
−Removed: Effective April 1,
−Removed: 2021, our board of directors approved our outside (non-employee) director compensation plan (the Director Plan).
−Removed: Pursuant to the Director
−Removed: Plan, outside directors are paid the following annual retainers:
+Added: Employment Agreements
+Added: We have entered into our standard
+Added: form of employment, confidential information and invention assignment agreement with each of our named executive officers.
+Added: entered into agreements to indemnify our directors and executive officers, in addition to the indemnification provided for in our articles
+Added: of incorporation and bylaws.
+Added: These agreements, among other things, provide for indemnification of our directors and certain executive
+Added: officers for many expenses, including attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines and settlement amounts incurred by any such person in any
+Added: action or proceeding, including any action by or in the right of the Company, arising out of such person’s services as a director
+Added: or executive officer of ours, any subsidiary of ours or any other company or enterprise to which such person provided services at our
+Added: Director Compensation
+Added: Effective April 1, 2021, our board
+Added: of directors approved our outside (non-employee) director compensation plan (the Director Plan).
+Added: Pursuant to the Director Plan, outside
+Added: directors are paid the following annual retainers:
● $25,000 for service as a member of the board of directors;
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● $5,000 for service as chair of the compensation committee.
−Removed: The annual retainers
−Removed: will be paid in quarterly installments in either cash, options to purchase shares of our common stock or in shares of our common stock,
−Removed: as directed by each director based on an annual election.
−Removed: In addition, under the Director Plan, each director will also receive an annual
−Removed: service equity award of $100,000 paid in quarterly installments in either options to purchase shares of our common stock or shares of
−Removed: our common stock, as directed by each director based on an annual election.
−Removed: upon appointment to our board of directors, we award our non-employee directors a stock option grant under our Amended 2017 Equity Incentive
−Removed: Plan (the 2017 Plan).
−Removed: During fiscal 2022, we awarded each of the new non-employee directors a stock option to purchase 16,667 shares
−Removed: of our common stock.
−Removed: These options vest annually over three years from the date of appointment to our board of directors.
−Removed: The following table summarizes the compensation earned by our non-employee directors in fiscal 2022:
−Removed: Restricted Stock
−Removed: Compensation(3)
−Removed: Liam Burns(4)
+Added: The annual retainers will be paid
+Added: in quarterly installments in either cash, options to purchase shares of our common stock or in shares of our common stock, as directed
+Added: by each director based on an annual election.
+Added: In addition, under the Director Plan, each director will also receive an annual service
+Added: equity award of $100,000 paid in quarterly installments in either options to purchase shares of our common stock or shares of our common
+Added: stock, as directed by each director based on an annual election.
+Added: In addition, upon appointment to our board
+Added: of directors, we award our non-employee directors a stock option grant under our Amended 2017 Equity Incentive Plan (the 2017 Plan).
+Added: fiscal 2022, we awarded each of the new non-employee directors a stock option to purchase 16,667 shares of our common stock.
+Added: These options
+Added: vest annually over three years from the date of appointment to our board of directors.
+Added: The following table summarizes the compensation earned by
+Added: our non-employee directors in fiscal 2023:
William Febbo
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Ellen O’Connor Vos
−Removed: amounts reflect the aggregate grant date fair value with respect to awards granted, as determined pursuant to FASB ASC Topic 718.
−Removed: The assumptions used to calculate the aggregate grant date fair value of option awards are set forth in the notes to the consolidated
−Removed: financial statements included in Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
−Removed: These amounts do not reflect actual compensation earned
−Removed: or to be earned by our directors.
−Removed: of March 31, 2022, our non-employee directors each held outstanding options to purchase the following number of shares of our
−Removed: common stock:
+Added: (1) Award amounts reflect the aggregate grant date fair value with respect to awards
+Added: granted, as determined pursuant to FASB ASC Topic 718.
+Added: The assumptions used to calculate the aggregate grant date fair value of option
+Added: awards are set forth in the notes to the consolidated financial statements included in Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
+Added: amounts do not reflect actual compensation earned or to be earned by our directors.
+Added: (2) As of March 31, 2023, our non-employee directors each held outstanding options
+Added: to purchase the following number of shares of our common stock:
William Febbo, 66,667;
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(3) Represents stock awards;
−Removed: calculated the estimated fair value of the stock awards issued to our non-employee directors using the closing price per share of our
−Removed: common stock on the day prior to the grant date in accordance with the Director Plan.
−Removed: Burns resigned as a director
−Removed: on December 31, 2021.
−Removed: Felsher and Sheibley
−Removed: were appointed to our board of directors on November 29, 2021.
−Removed: Vos was appointed to our
−Removed: board of directors in May 2021 and as our chief executive officer in August 2021.
−Removed: In February 2022, Ms.
−Removed: Vos resigned as our chief executive
−Removed: SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS
−Removed: The following
−Removed: table sets forth certain information as of May 31, 2022 concerning the ownership of our common stock by:
−Removed: shareholder known by us to be the beneficial owner of more than 5% of the outstanding shares
−Removed: of our common stock (currently our only class of voting securities);
−Removed: of our directors;
−Removed: of our executive officers;
−Removed: directors and executive officers as a group.
−Removed: Beneficial ownership
−Removed: is determined in accordance with Rule 13d-3 of the Exchange Act, and includes all shares over which the beneficial owner exercises voting
−Removed: or investment power.
−Removed: Shares that are issuable upon the exercise of options, warrants and other rights to acquire common stock that are
−Removed: presently exercisable or exercisable within 60 days of May 31, 2022 are reflected in a separate column in the table below.
−Removed: are taken into account in the calculation of the total number of shares beneficially owned by a particular holder and the total number
−Removed: of shares outstanding for the purpose of calculating percentage ownership of the particular holder.
−Removed: We have relied on information supplied
−Removed: by our officers, directors and certain stockholders and on information contained in filings with the SEC.
−Removed: Except as otherwise indicated,
−Removed: and subject to community property laws where applicable, we believe, based on information provided by these persons, that the persons
−Removed: named in the table have sole voting and investment power with respect to all shares of common stock shown as beneficially owned by them.
−Removed: The percentage of beneficial ownership is based on 10,911,684 shares of common stock outstanding as of May 31, 2022.
−Removed: Unless otherwise stated,
−Removed: the business address of each of our directors and executive officers listed in the table is 16772 West Bernardo Drive, San Diego, California
+Added: we calculated the estimated fair value of the stock awards
+Added: issued to our non-employee directors using the closing price per share of our common stock on the day prior to the grant date in accordance
+Added: with the Director Plan.
+Added: Equity Compensation Plan Information
+Added: The following table shows
+Added: the number of securities to be issued upon exercise or vesting of outstanding equity awards under the 2017 Plan as of March 31, 2023.
+Added: securities to be
+Added: equity awards
+Added: exercise price
+Added: of outstanding
+Added: remaining available
+Added: for future issuance
+Added: compensation plans
+Added: (excluding securities
+Added: Equity compensation plans not approved by security holders
+Added: SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF
+Added: CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS
+Added: The following table sets forth certain information as of
+Added: June 15, 2023 concerning the ownership of our common stock by:
+Added: ● each stockholder known by us
+Added: to be the beneficial owner of more than 5% of the outstanding shares of our common stock (currently our only class of voting securities);
+Added: ● each of our directors;
+Added: ● each of our executive officers;
+Added: ● all directors and executive
+Added: officers as a group.
+Added: Beneficial ownership is determined
+Added: in accordance with Rule 13d-3 of the Exchange Act, and includes all shares over which the beneficial owner exercises voting or investment
+Added: Shares that are issuable upon the exercise of options, warrants and other rights to acquire common stock that are presently exercisable
+Added: or exercisable within 60 days of June 15, 2023 are reflected in a separate column in the table below.
+Added: These shares are taken into account
+Added: in the calculation of the total number of shares beneficially owned by a particular holder and the total number of shares outstanding
+Added: for the purpose of calculating percentage ownership of the particular holder.
+Added: We have relied on information supplied by our officers,
+Added: directors and certain stockholders and on information contained in filings with the SEC.
+Added: Except as otherwise indicated, and subject to
+Added: community property laws where applicable, we believe, based on information provided by these persons, that the persons named in the table
+Added: have sole voting and investment power with respect to all shares of common stock shown as beneficially owned by them.
+Added: The percentage of
+Added: beneficial ownership is based on 21,088,823 shares of common stock outstanding as of June 15, 2023.
+Added: Unless otherwise stated, the business
+Added: address of each of our directors and executive officers listed in the table is 10740 Thornmint Road, San Diego, California 92127.
Name and principal position
1 unchanged sentence
Beneficially Owned
−Removed: Shares Issuable
−Removed: on Exercise of
+Added: Shares Issuable on Exercise of
JEB Partners, L.P.
2 unchanged sentences
2,720,577 (3)
−Removed: Manchester Management LLC
+Added: Manchester Management Company, LLC
2,720,577 (3)
Sio Capital Management, LLC
+Added: 1,348,314 (5)
Directors and Officers:
2,720,577 (3)
−Removed: William Febbo
+Added: 2,553,586 (6)
Steven Felsher
4 unchanged sentences
All current directors and executive officers as a group (9 persons)
−Removed: shares subject to outstanding options and warrants to acquire common stock that are exercisable within 60 days of May 31, 2022.
−Removed: the number of shares subject to outstanding options and warrants to acquire common stock that are exercisable within 60 days of May 31,
−Removed: (i) 124,750 shares directly held by Mr.
−Removed: Besser, of which:
+Added: * Represents less than 1%
+Added: (1) Excludes shares subject to outstanding options and warrants to acquire common stock that are exercisable
+Added: within 60 days of June 15, 2023.
+Added: (2) Represents the number of shares subject to outstanding options and warrants to acquire common stock that
+Added: are exercisable within 60 days of June 15, 2023.
+Added: (3) Includes (i) 124,750 shares directly held by Mr.
(a) 60,277 shares were received in exchange for Mr.
−Removed: Besser’s shares as
−Removed: a result of our acquisition of Quasuras;
−Removed: (b) 29,630 shares purchased in a private placement in 2018 (the 2018 Placement) and (c) 34,843
−Removed: shares were purchased in a private placement in 2020 (the 2020 placement);
+Added: Besser’s shares as a result of our acquisition of Quasuras;
+Added: 29,630 shares purchased in a private placement in 2018 (the “2018 Placement”) and (c) 34,843 shares were purchased in a
+Added: private placement in 2020 (the “2020 Placement”);
(ii) 2,218,077 held by Manchester Explorer, L.P.
−Removed: (a) 1,515,152 shares were purchased in a private placement in 2017 (the 2017 Placement), (b) 157,037 shares were purchased in the 2018
−Removed: Placement, (c) 11,614 were purchased in the 2020 Placement, (d) 300,000 shares were purchased in a public offering in February 2022,
−Removed: and (e) 234,274 shares were acquired upon the conversion of a convertible note in February 2022;
−Removed: (iii) 317,473 shares held by JEB Partners,
−Removed: of which (a) 252,526 shares were purchased in the 2017 Placement, (b) 53,333 shares were purchased in the 2018 Placement and (c)
−Removed: 11,614 shares were purchased in the 2020 Placement;
+Added: 1,515,152 shares were purchased in a private placement in 2017 (the “2017 Placement”), (b) 157,037 shares were purchased
+Added: in the 2018 Placement, (c) 11,614 were purchased in the 2020 Placement, (d) 300,000 shares were purchased in a public offering in
+Added: February 2022, and (e) 234,274 shares were acquired upon the conversion of a convertible note in February 2022;
+Added: (iii) 317,473 shares
+Added: held by JEB Partners, L.P.
+Added: of which (a) 252,526 shares were purchased in the 2017 Placement, (b) 53,333 shares were purchased in the
+Added: 2018 Placement and (c) 11,614 shares were purchased in the 2020 Placement;
and (iv) 60,277 shares held by Mr.
−Removed: Frank, which shares were received in our acquisition
−Removed: of Quasuras in exchange for Mr.
+Added: Frank, which shares
+Added: were received in our acquisition of Quasuras in exchange for Mr.
Frank’s shares of Quasuras.
−Removed: Besser, as the managing member, and Mr.
−Removed: Frank, as the portfolio
−Removed: manager and consultant of Manchester Management, LLC, (MMC) the general partner of Manchester Explorer, L.P.
+Added: Besser, as the managing
+Added: member, and Mr.
+Added: Frank, as the portfolio manager and consultant of Manchester Management Company, LLC, (“MMC”) the general
+Added: partner of Manchester Explorer, L.P.
and JEB Partners, L.
−Removed: have shared voting and dispositive power over shares held by Manchester Explorer, L.P.
+Added: P., have shared voting and dispositive power over shares held by
+Added: Manchester Explorer, L.P.
and JEB Partners, L.P.
−Removed: The address for Manchester
−Removed: Explorer, L.P is c/o MMC, 2 Calle Candina, No.
−Removed: 1701, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00907.
−Removed: of the following shares of Common Stock acquired in the Offering:
−Removed: (i) 144,438 shares of Common Stock held by Sio Partners LP (“Partners”),
−Removed: (ii) 85,000 shares of Common Stock held by Sio Partners Offshore LTD (Offshore), (iii) 81,000 shares of Common Stock held by Compass
−Removed: MAV LLC (Compass), (iv) 49,000 shares of Common Stock held by Compass Offshore MAV LTD (Compass Offshore), (v) 27,000 shares of Common
−Removed: Stock held by Walleye Manager Opportunities LLC (Walleye Manager) and (vi) 63,000 shares of Common Stock held by Walleye Opportunities
−Removed: Master Fund Ltd.
−Removed: (Walleye Master).
−Removed: Sio Capital Management, LLC (Sio Management) is the investment manager of Partners, Offshore,
−Removed: Compass, Compass Offshore, Walleye Manager and Walleye Master, and Michael Castor is the sole owner and Managing Member of Sio Management.
−Removed: Sio Management and Mr.
−Removed: Castor may be deemed to beneficially own the securities held by Partners, Offshore, Compass, Compass Offshore,
−Removed: Walleye Manager, and Walleye Master.
−Removed: Each of Sio Management and Mr.
−Removed: Castor disclaim beneficial ownership of any of the shares of our
−Removed: Common Stock they may be deemed to beneficially own except to the extent of their respective pecuniary interest therein.
−Removed: for Sio Management, Mr.
−Removed: Castor, Partners, Offshore, Compass, Compass Offshore, Walleye Manager and Walleye Master is 600 Third Avenue,
+Added: The address for Manchester Explorer, L.P is c/o MMC, 2 Calle Candina, No.
+Added: Juan, Puerto Rico 00907.
+Added: (4) Based on information reported by Sio Capital
+Added: Management, LLC (“Sio”) on Schedule 13G filed with the SEC on February 15, 2023.
+Added: Sio and Sio GP, LLC (the “GP”)
+Added: act as investment advisor and general partner, respectively, to various clients that are the record owners of the shares of our common
+Added: stock reported on this Schedule 13G.
+Added: Because Sio’s investment discretion with respect to such clients is subject to oversight by
+Added: the GP, the GP may be deemed to be the beneficial owner of the common stock of the Issuer owned by such clients.
+Added: In addition, both Sio
+Added: and the GP are controlled by Michael Castor.
+Added: As such, he may be deemed to control the voting and dispositive decisions with respect to,
+Added: and therefore be the beneficial owner of, the shares of our common stock.
+Added: The address for Sio, Sio GP and Mr.
+Added: Castor is 600 Third Avenue,
New York, New York 10016.
−Removed: shares are issuable upon exercise of outstanding pre-funded warrants to purchase shares of our Common Stock.
−Removed: As of May 31, 2022, Sio
−Removed: Management held 1,348,314 pre-funded warrants to purchase shares of Common Stock.
−Removed: Pursuant to the terms of the pre-funded
−Removed: warrants, Sio Management cannot exercise such pre-funded warrants if Sio Management would beneficially own, after such exercise, more
−Removed: than 9.99% of the outstanding shares of our Common Stock.
−Removed: Accordingly, pre-funded warrants to purchase 636,314 shares of our Common Stock
−Removed: have been excluded from the table above.
−Removed: (i) 2,000,000 shares directly held by the Paul DiPerna Irrevocable Trust, (ii) 333,334 shares directly held by Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna’s adult
−Removed: daughters, Kelsie DiPerna and Alaria DiPerna, which shares Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna has sole voting power over;
−Removed: (iii) 207,906 shares directly held
−Removed: by the Paul DiPerna Trust, of which 101,010 shares were purchased in the 2017 Placement and 23,429 shares were acquired upon the conversion
−Removed: off a convertible note in February 2022 and (iv) 12,346 shares held by Mr.
−Removed: The 2,000,000 shares held by the Paul DiPerna Irrevocable
−Removed: Trust, 333,334 shares held by Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna’s adult daughters and 73,480 shares held by the Paul DiPerna Trust that were issued in
−Removed: DiPerna in the Control Block Acquisition and transferred to such persons in December 2020 by Mr.
−Removed: the chairman of our board of directors, and also serves as our president, chief financial officer and treasurer.
−Removed: DiPerna is the trustee
−Removed: of both the Paul DiPerna Irrevocable Trust and the Paul DiPerna Trust.
−Removed: CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE
−Removed: with Related Persons
−Removed: disclosed elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna, is a party to related party transactions with us,
−Removed: DiPerna’s daughter is
−Removed: an employee of ours, and, during fiscal 2022, we paid her $169,589, which includes the aggregate grant date fair value, as
−Removed: determined pursuant to FASB ASC Topic 718, of a stock option granted in November 2021.
−Removed: February 2021, Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna and Manchester Explorer, L.P.
+Added: (5) These shares are issuable upon exercise of outstanding
+Added: pre-funded warrants to purchase shares of our common stock.
+Added: As of June 15, 2023, Sio held 1,348,314 pre-funded warrants to purchase shares
+Added: of our common stock.
+Added: Pursuant to the terms of the pre-funded warrants, Sio cannot exercise such pre-funded warrants if Sio would beneficially
+Added: own, after such exercise, more than 9.99% of the outstanding shares of our common stock.
+Added: (6) Includes (i) 2,000,000 shares directly held by the Paul DiPerna Irrevocable Trust,
+Added: (ii) 333,334 shares directly held by Mr.
+Added: DiPerna’s adult daughters, Kelsie DiPerna and Alaria DiPerna, which shares Mr.
+Added: has sole voting power over;
+Added: (iii) 207,906 shares directly held by the Paul DiPerna Trust, of which 101,010 shares were purchased in the
+Added: 2017 Placement and 23,429 shares were acquired upon the conversion off a convertible note in February 2022 and (iv) 12,346 shares held
+Added: The 2,000,000 shares held by the Paul DiPerna Irrevocable Trust, 333,334 shares held by Mr.
+Added: DiPerna’s adult daughters
+Added: and 73,480 shares held by the Paul DiPerna Trust that were issued in 2017 to Mr.
+Added: DiPerna in the Control Block Acquisition and transferred
+Added: to such persons in December 2020 by Mr.
+Added: DiPerna is the chairman of our board of directors, and also serves as our president,
+Added: chief financial officer and treasurer.
+Added: DiPerna is the trustee of both the Paul DiPerna Irrevocable Trust and the Paul DiPerna Trust.
+Added: CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS,
+Added: AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE
+Added: Transactions with Related Persons
+Added: MMC as the general partner of Manchester Explorer,
+Added: (Explorer), combined with the holdings of its affiliates, JEB Partners LP, Mr.
+Added: Besser and Mr.
+Added: Frank, owned approximately 25% of
+Added: our outstanding shares of common stock at March 31, 2023.
+Added: Besser is our chief executive officer and a managing member of MMC.
+Added: Frank is one of our directors and serves as the portfolio manager of Explorer and as a managing member of MMC.
+Added: DiPerna’s daughter is an employee of
+Added: ours, and, during fiscal 2023, we paid her $201,275, which includes the aggregate grant date fair value, as determined pursuant to FASB
+Added: ASC Topic 718, of a stock option granted to her.
+Added: In February 2021, Mr.
+Added: DiPerna and Explorer (together,
the Related Party Holders), which is represented by Mr.
−Removed: Frank on our board
−Removed: of directors, purchased $100,000 and $1,000,000, aggregate principal amount of our convertible notes and received warrants to purchase
−Removed: 119,237 and 11,924 shares of our common stock (the Note Warrants), respectively.
−Removed: Effective April 30, 2021, the Related Party Holders
−Removed: entered into revocation agreements with the Company pursuant to which their collective $1,100,000 aggregate principal amount of
−Removed: convertible notes and accrued interest of $50,091 were replaced with new convertible notes.
−Removed: In connection with a public offering
−Removed: of our equity securities in February 2022, the convertible notes and accrued interest held by the Related Party Holders were converted
−Removed: into our equity securities and Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna received 23,429 shares of our common stock and a warrant to purchase 23,429 shares of our
−Removed: common stock at an exercise price of $6.60 per share and Manchester Explorer, L.
−Removed: received 234,274 shares of our common stock and a
−Removed: warrant to purchase 234, 274 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $6.60 per share.
−Removed: In addition, the exercise prices of
−Removed: the Note Warrants were reduced to $6.00 per share.
−Removed: May 2021, Mr.
−Removed: Febbo purchased $200,000 aggregate principal amount of our convertible notes and received a warrant to purchase 23,229
−Removed: shares of our common stock (the Director Warrant).
−Removed: In connection with a public offering of our equity securities in February 2022, the
−Removed: convertible note held by Mr.
+Added: Frank on our board of directors, purchased $100,000 and $1,000,000, aggregate
+Added: principal amount of our convertible notes and received warrants to purchase 119,237 and 11,924 shares of our common stock (the Note Warrants),
+Added: respectively.
+Added: Effective April 30, 2021, the Related Party Holders entered into revocation agreements with the Company pursuant to which
+Added: their collective $1,100,000 aggregate principal amount of convertible notes and accrued interest of $50,091 were replaced with new convertible
+Added: In connection with a public offering of our equity securities in February 2022, the convertible notes and accrued interest held
+Added: by the Related Party Holders were converted into our equity securities and Mr.
+Added: DiPerna received 23,429 shares of our common stock and
+Added: a warrant to purchase 23,429 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $6.60 per share and Explorer received 234,274 shares
+Added: of our common stock and a warrant to purchase 234,274 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $6.60 per share.
+Added: the exercise prices of the Note Warrants were reduced to $6.00 per share.
+Added: In May 2021, Mr.
+Added: Febbo purchased
+Added: $200,000 aggregate principal amount of our convertible notes and received a warrant to purchase 23,229 shares of our common stock
+Added: (the Director Warrant).
+Added: In connection with a public offering of our equity securities in February 2022, the convertible note held by
Febbo was converted into our equity securities.
Upon conversion, Mr.
−Removed: Febbo received 45,586 shares of our
−Removed: common stock and a warrant to purchase 45,586 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $6.60 per share.
−Removed: In addition, the exercise
−Removed: price of the Director Warrant was reduced to $6.00 per share.
−Removed: October 2021, we sold 12,346 shares of common stock to Mr.
+Added: Febbo received 45,586 shares of our common stock and a
+Added: warrant to purchase 45,586 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $6.60 per share.
+Added: In addition, the exercise price of
+Added: the Director Warrant was reduced to $6.00 per share.
+Added: In October 2021, we sold 12,346
+Added: shares of common stock to Mr.
DiPerna and 18,519 shares to Ms.
−Removed: Vos at a price per share
−Removed: of $8.10 in a private placement.
−Removed: of directors has determined that each of the current directors, with the exception of Mr.
+Added: Vos at a price per share of $8.10 in a private placement.
+Added: See “Management” above
+Added: for other related-party transactions involving our executive officers and directors.
+Added: Director Independence
+Added: Our board of directors has determined that
+Added: each of the current directors, with the exception of Mr.
Frank and Ms.
−Removed: Vos, is “independent,”
−Removed: as defined by the listing rules of the NASDAQ Stock Market, or Nasdaq, and the rules and regulations of the SEC.
−Removed: Our board of directors
−Removed: has standing Audit, Compensation and Nominating and Governance Committees, each of which is comprised solely of independent directors
−Removed: in accordance with the Nasdaq listing rules.
−Removed: No director qualifies as independent unless the board of directors affirmatively determines
−Removed: that he has no direct or indirect relationship with us that would impair his independence.
−Removed: We independently review the relationship of
−Removed: the Company to any entity employing a director or on whose board of directors he is serving currently .
+Added: Vos, is “independent,” as defined by the
+Added: listing rules of the NASDAQ Stock Market, or Nasdaq, and the rules and regulations of the SEC.
+Added: Our board of directors has standing Audit,
+Added: Compensation and Nominating and Governance Committees, each of which is comprised solely of independent directors in accordance with the
+Added: Nasdaq listing rules.
+Added: No director qualifies as independent unless the board of directors affirmatively determines that he has no direct
+Added: or indirect relationship with us that would impair his independence.
+Added: We independently review the relationship of the Company to any entity
+Added: employing a director or on whose board of directors he is serving currently.
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES
−Removed: The following table
−Removed: shows the fees billed to us by Farber Hass Hurley LLP, or Farber, our independent registered public accounting firm, for the audit of
−Removed: our consolidated financial statements and other services provided.
+Added: The following table shows the fees billed to us by Farber
+Added: Hass Hurley LLP, or Farber, our independent registered public accounting firm, for the audit of our consolidated financial statements
+Added: and other services provided.
Year ended March 31,
1 unchanged sentence
Audit-related fees(2)
−Removed: Audit fees consisted of fees for professional services rendered for the audit of our annual consolidated financial statements and reviews of our quarterly consolidated financial statements
−Removed: Audit-related fees consisted of fees for services related to our issuance of SEC registration statements and sales of common stock under registration statements.
−Removed: Farber did not provide any non-audit or other services other than those reported under “Audit fees” and “Audit-related fees.”
−Removed: Consolidated financial statements .
−Removed: See the audited consolidated financial statements for the year ended March 31, 2022 contained in Item 8 of this Report which
−Removed: are incorporated herein by this reference.
−Removed: Financial statement schedul es.
−Removed: because they are not required, not applicable or because the required information is shown in the consolidated financial statements
−Removed: or notes thereto.
−Removed: Required exhibits are
−Removed: incorporated by reference or are filed with this Report.
−Removed: Form of Underwriting Agreement
−Removed: Reorganization and Share Exchange Agreement
−Removed: dated as of July 24, 2017, by and among the Registrant, Quasuras, Inc., Paul DiPerna and the other stockholders of Quasuras, Inc.
−Removed: 1 to Reorganization and Share Exchange Agreement dated as of July 24, 2017, by and among the Registrant, Quasuras, Inc., Paul DiPerna and the other Stockholders of Quasuras, Inc.
+Added: (1) Audit fees consisted of fees for professional services rendered for the audit of our annual consolidated
+Added: financial statements and reviews of our quarterly consolidated financial statements.
+Added: (2) Audit-related fees consisted of fees for services related to our issuance of SEC registration statements
+Added: and sales of our securities under registration statements.
+Added: (3) Farber did not provide any non-audit or other services other than those reported under “Audit fees” and “Audit-related
+Added: of Underwriting Agreement dated May 15, 2023
+Added: Reorganization
+Added: and Share Exchange Agreement dated as of July 24, 2017, by and among the Registrant, Quasuras, Inc., Paul DiPerna and the other stockholders
+Added: of Quasuras, Inc.
+Added: 1 to Reorganization and Share Exchange Agreement dated as of July 24, 2017, by and among the Registrant, Quasuras, Inc., Paul
+Added: DiPerna and the other Stockholders of Quasuras, Inc.
dated May 3, 2021
−Removed: Third Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation, as filed with the Secretary of State of Nevada on June 27, 2017
−Removed: Certificate of Amendment to the Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of Modular Medical, Inc., filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Nevada on November 24, 2021
+Added: Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation, as filed with the Secretary of State of Nevada on June 27, 2017
+Added: of Amendment to the Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of Modular Medical, Inc., filed with the Secretary of State of
+Added: the State of Nevada on November 24, 2021
Amended Bylaws
2017 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended
−Removed: of Securities
−Removed: Form of Pre-Funded Warrant dated May 2, 2022
−Removed: Form of Private Placement Warrant dated May 2, 2022
−Removed: of Warrant to Purchase Common Stock dated May 2, 2022
−Removed: Common Stock Purchase Agreement, dated
−Removed: as of April 5, 2017, by and among Bear Lake Recreation, Inc., Manchester Explorer, LP, a Delaware limited partnership, and
−Removed: certain persons named therein
−Removed: Form of Common Stock Purchase Agreement,
−Removed: dated as of July 24, 2017, by and between the Registrant and the purchaser named therein
−Removed: of Common Stock Purchase Agreement dated as of November 19, 2018 among the Registrant and the Investors named
−Removed: Employment Agreement dated August 1, 2018,
−Removed: by and between the Registrant and Paul DiPerna
−Removed: Intellectual Property Assignment Agreement
−Removed: dated July 24, 2017, by and between the Registrant, Quasuras, Inc.
+Added: of Warrant to Purchase Common Stock dated February 14, 2022
+Added: of Pre-Funded Warrant to Purchase Common Stock dated May 2, 2022
+Added: of Private Placement Warrant dated May 2, 2022
+Added: Form of Warrant
+Added: Form of Underwriter’s Warrant
+Added: Description of Registrant’s Securities
+Added: Stock Purchase Agreement, dated as of April 5, 2017, by and among Bear Lake Recreation, Inc., Manchester Explorer, LP, a Delaware
+Added: limited partnership, and certain persons named therein
+Added: of Common Stock Purchase Agreement, dated as of July 24, 2017, by and between the Registrant and the purchaser named therein
+Added: of Common Stock Purchase Agreement dated as of November 19, 2018 among the Registrant and the Investors named therein
+Added: Agreement dated August 1, 2018, by and between the Registrant and Paul DiPerna
+Added: Property Assignment Agreement dated July 24, 2017, by and between the Registrant, Quasuras, Inc.
and Paul DiPerna
−Removed: Technology Royalty Agreement dated as of
−Removed: July 24, 2017, by and between the Registrant, Quasuras, Inc.
+Added: Royalty Agreement dated as of July 24, 2017, by and between the Registrant, Quasuras, Inc.
and Paul DiPerna
−Removed: Service Agreement effective January 16,
−Removed: 2019 between the Registrant and Liam Burns
−Removed: Standard Sublease Agreement, dated August
−Removed: 21, 2017, between the Registrant and Western Education Corporation
−Removed: Lease between MCP Socal Industrial –
−Removed: Bernardo, LLC and the Registrant dated January 10, 2020
−Removed: Consulting Agreement between the Registrant
−Removed: and Liam Burns dated April 15, 2019
−Removed: Consulting Agreement between the Registrant
−Removed: and Liam Burns dated July 15, 2019
−Removed: Consulting Agreement between the Registrant
−Removed: and Liam Burns dated September 3, 2019
−Removed: Service Agreement effective December 31,
−Removed: 2019 between the Registrant and Carmen Volkart
−Removed: Service Agreement effective January 23,
−Removed: 2020 between the Registrant and William Febbo
−Removed: Form of Indemnification Agreement between
−Removed: the Registrant and each of its directors and officers used from January 23, 2020
−Removed: Form of Notice of Stock Option Grant and
−Removed: Stock Option Agreement under the Amended 2017 Equity Incentive Plan
−Removed: Form of Common Stock Purchase Agreement dated March 2020 by and between the Registrant and the Investors named therein
−Removed: First Amendment to Employment Agreement
−Removed: between the Registrant and Paul DiPerna effective as of May 12, 2020
−Removed: Second Amendment to Employment Agreement between the Registrant and Paul DiPerna effective as of July 1, 2020
−Removed: Small Business Administration Paycheck
−Removed: Protection Program Note dated April 23, 2020
−Removed: Form of Promissory Note dated February 8, 2021
+Added: between MCP Socal Industrial – Bernardo, LLC and the Registrant dated January 10, 2020
+Added: Industrial/Commercial Agreement between the Registrant and Michael Summers dated January 5, 2023
+Added: Agreement effective December 31, 2019 between Registrant and Carmen Volkart
+Added: Agreement effective January 23, 2020 between the Registrant and William Febbo
+Added: of Indemnification Agreement between the Registrant and each of its directors and officers used from January 23, 2020
+Added: of Notice of Stock Option Grant and Stock Option Agreement under the Amended 2017 Equity Incentive Plan
+Added: Amendment to the Employment Agreement between the Registrant and Paul DiPerna effective as of May 12, 2020
+Added: Amendment to Employment Agreement between the Registrant and Paul DiPerna effective as of July 1, 2020
Form of Convertible Promissory Note issued in the 2021 Private Placement
−Removed: Form of Common Stock Purchase Warrant issued in the 2021 Private Placement
+Added: Form of Common Stock Purchase Agreement dated March 2020 by and between the Registrant and the Investors named therein
Form of Securities Purchase Agreement for the 2021 Private Placement
Form of Registration Rights Agreement for the 2021 Private Placement
+Added: Form of Common Stock Purchase Warrant issued in the 2021 Private Placement
Service Agreement effective May 18, 2021 between the Registrant and Ellen O’Connor Vos
2 unchanged sentences
Security Agreement dated October 28, 2021 between the Registrant and Manchester Explorer, L.P.
−Removed: Form of Common Stock Purchase Agreement dated October 28, 2021 between the Registrant and Investors
−Removed: Form of Warrant Agency Agreement
+Added: Form of Warrant Agency Agreement dated February 14, 2023
Form of Warrant Omnibus Amendment Agreement
1 unchanged sentence
Severance and Release Agreement between the Registrant and Ellen O’Connor Vos dated February 23, 2022
−Removed: Sole Subsidiary of the Registrant (as disclosed
−Removed: in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements as of March 31, 2022 in Item 8 of this Report)
+Added: Offer Letter Agreement between the Registrant and Kevin Schmid dated July 13, 2022
+Added: Standard Industrial/Commercial Single-Tenant Lease between the Registrant and Michael Summers dated January 5, 2023
+Added: Form of Warrant Agency Agreement
+Added: Form of Common Stock Purchase Agreement dated October 28, 2021 between the Registrant and the Investors named therein
+Added: List of Subsidiaries
+Added: Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Power of Attorney (see signature page of this Report)
4 unchanged sentences
XBRL Instance Document.
−Removed: XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema
−Removed: XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase
−Removed: XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase
−Removed: XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase
−Removed: XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase
−Removed: filed with the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed July 28, 2017, and
−Removed: incorporated herein by reference.
−Removed: (2) As filed with the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed May 12, 2021, and incorporated herein by reference.
−Removed: (3) As filed with the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed June 29, 2017, and incorporated herein by reference.
−Removed: (4) As filed with the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed December 1, 2021, and incorporated herein by reference.
−Removed: (5) As filed with the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K/A for the year ended June 30, 2008, and incorporated herein by reference.
−Removed: (6) As filed with the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed
−Removed: November 12, 2018, and incorporated herein by reference.
−Removed: (7) As filed with the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed April 5, 2017, and incorporated herein by reference.
−Removed: (8) As filed with the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed November 20, 2018 and incorporated herein by reference.
−Removed: (9) As filed with the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1, as amended, originally filed June 27, 2019, declared effective October 22, 2019 (Commission File No.
−Removed: 333-232377), and incorporated herein by reference.
−Removed: (10) As filed with the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended December 31, 2019, and incorporated herein by reference.
−Removed: (11) As filed with the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1, as amended, originally filed April 9, 2020, declared effective May 11, 2020 (Commission File No.
−Removed: 333-237615), and incorporated herein by reference.
−Removed: (12) As filed with the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed May 27, 2020, and incorporated herein by reference.
−Removed: (13) As filed with the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed May 12, 2020, and incorporated herein by reference.
−Removed: (14) As filed with the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended December 31, 2020, and incorporated herein by reference.
−Removed: (15) As filed with the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed June 29, 2021, and incorporated herein by reference.
−Removed: (16) As filed with the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed August 16, 2021, and incorporated herein by reference.
−Removed: (17) As filed with the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed October 29, 2021, and incorporated herein by reference.
−Removed: (18) As filed with the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed February 14, 2022, and incorporated herein by reference.
−Removed: (19) As filed with the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed February 9, 2022, and incorporated herein by reference.
−Removed: (20) As filed with the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed May 5, 2022, and incorporated herein by reference.
−Removed: (21) As filed with the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed June 6, 2022 (Commission File No.
−Removed: 333-265444), and incorporated herein by reference.
−Removed: Management contract,
−Removed: compensatory plan or arrangement.
−Removed: * Filed herewith
−Removed: Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13
−Removed: or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
+Added: XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Linkbase Document.
+Added: XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document.
+Added: Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document.
+Added: Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document.
+Added: Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document.
+Added: Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101).
+Added: a management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement.
+Added: Form 10-K Summary
+Added: Not applicable.
+Added: Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or
+Added: 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
thereunto duly authorized, on the 26 th day of June, 2023.
−Removed: MEDICAL, INC.
−Removed: Executive Officer,
−Removed: Executive Officer)
−Removed: KNOW ALL PERSONS
−Removed: BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints James E.
−Removed: Besser and Paul DiPerna as her/his
−Removed: true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for her and him and in her or his name,
−Removed: place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments to this Annual Report on Form 10-K, and to file the same,
−Removed: with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said
−Removed: attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done
−Removed: in connection therewith, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all
−Removed: that said attorney-in- fact and agent, or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
−Removed: Pursuant to the requirements
−Removed: of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in
−Removed: the capacities and on the dates indicated.
−Removed: Chief Executive
−Removed: Officer (Principal Executive Officer)
+Added: MODULAR MEDICAL, INC.
+Added: Chief Executive Officer,
+Added: (Principal Executive Officer)
+Added: POWER OF ATTORNEY
+Added: KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each
+Added: person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints James E.
+Added: Besser and Paul DiPerna as her/his true and lawful
+Added: attorneys-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for her and him and in her or his name, place and
+Added: stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments to this Annual Report on Form 10-K, and to file the same, with all
+Added: exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said
+Added: attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be
+Added: done in connection therewith, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and
+Added: confirming all that said attorney-in- fact and agent, or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by
+Added: virtue hereof.
+Added: Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange
+Added: Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates
+Added: Chief Executive Officer
June 26, 2023
−Removed: Chairman, President
−Removed: and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
+Added: (Principal Executive Officer)
+Added: /s/ Paul DiPerna
+Added: Chairman, President and Chief Financial Officer
+Added: (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
June 26, 2023
+Added: /s/ William Febbo
June 26, 2023
William Febbo
−Removed: Steven Felsher
+Added: /s/ Steven Felsher
June 26, 2023
Steven Felsher
+Added: /s/ Morgan C.
June 26, 2023
−Removed: Philip Sheibley
+Added: /s/ Philip Sheibley
June 26, 2023
Philip Sheibley
−Removed: Carmen Volkart
+Added: /s/ Carmen Volkart
June 26, 2023
Carmen Volkart
−Removed: Ellen O’Connor Vos
+Added: /s/ Ellen O’Connor Vos
June 26, 2023
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