Item 9A. Controls and Procedures
Item 9A. Controls and Procedures
As required by Rule 13a-15
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, we have carried out an evaluation of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and
procedures as of the end of the period covered by this annual report, being December 31, 2020. This evaluation was carried out
under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer.
Disclosure controls and procedures
are controls and other procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed or
submitted under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified
in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures include controls and procedures
designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our company’s reports filed under the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934 is accumulated and communicated to management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, to
allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
Based upon that evaluation,
including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, we have concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures
were ineffective as of the end of the period covered by this annual report.
Management’s Annual
Report on Internal Control over Financing Reporting
Our management is responsible
for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) under the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934). Management has assessed the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of December
31, 2020 based on criteria established in Internal Control-Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
of the Treadway Commission. As a result of this assessment, management concluded that, as of December 31, 2020, our internal control
over financial reporting was not effective. Our management identified the following material weaknesses in our internal control
over financial reporting, which are indicative of many small companies with small staff: (i) inadequate segregation of duties and
effective risk assessment; and (ii) insufficient written policies and procedures for accounting and financial reporting with respect
to the requirements and application of both US GAAP and SEC guidelines.
We plan to take steps to enhance
and improve the design of our internal control over financial reporting. During the period covered by this annual report on Form
10-K, we have not been able to remediate the material weaknesses identified above. To remediate such weaknesses, we hope to implement
the following changes during our fiscal year ending December 31, 2021: (i) appoint additional qualified personnel to address inadequate
segregation of duties and ineffective risk management; and (ii) adopt sufficient written policies and procedures for accounting
and financial reporting. The remediation efforts set out in (i) and (ii) are largely dependent upon our securing additional financing
to cover the costs of implementing the changes required. If we are unsuccessful in securing such funds, remediation efforts may
be adversely affected in a material manner.
This annual report does not
include an attestation report of our registered public accounting firm regarding internal control over financial reporting. Management’s
report was not subject to attestation by our registered public accounting firm pursuant to an exemption for non-accelerated filers
set forth in Section 989G of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
Item
9B. Other Information
None
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PART
III
Item 10. Directors, Executive
Officers and Corporate Governance
The following information
sets forth the names, ages, and positions of our current directors and executive officers.
Name
Age
Position(s) and Office(s) Held
Terry Howlett
72
Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and Director
David St. James
48
Director
Set forth below is a brief
description of the background and business experience of each of our current executive officers and directors.
Mr. Terry H. Howlett ,
has been our Chief Executive Officer and Director since March 5, 1998. Mr. Howlett has a diversified background in market initialization
and development, sales and venture capital financing for emerging growth companies. He has held senior management, marketing and
sales positions with various companies, including the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, Family Life Insurance, and Avacare
of Canada and founded Presley Laboratories, Inc., which marketed cosmetic and skin, care products on a direct sales basis. For
the ten years prior to becoming President of the Company, Mr. Howlett was the President and CEO of Voice-it Solutions, Inc., a
publicly traded company on the Vancouver Stock exchange that made voice response software for order entry systems.
Mr. David St. James is
an inventor and businessman based in Las Vegas, Nevada. He has invented and co-invented turbochargers and superchargers, some of
which are in use today on production vehicles and in Formula 1. He has also been involved in other various aspects of the automotive
industry, including product development, service, and repair. He has been an Officer and Director of Homeland Resources Ltd. since
July of 2014 and currently serves as the President and a Director. He has been the Vice President and a Director of Nouveau Ventures
Inc. since August of 2014. Mr. St. James served as the President of XLR Medical Corporation from January 2009 through January 2012.
Directors
Our bylaws authorize no less
than one (1) and more than twelve (12) directors. We currently have two directors.
Term of Office
Our Directors are appointed
for a one-year term to hold office until the next annual general meeting of our shareholders or until removed from office in accordance
with our bylaws. Our officers are appointed by our board of directors and hold office until removed by the board.
Significant Employees
Ms. Doreen McMorran ,
is head of Business Development. Ms. McMorran brings to the Company almost 20 years of experience in the medical and pharmaceutical
industry, specifically in the areas of strategic planning, sales and marketing. She has spent the last seven years selling to international
dermatology and skincare focused companies like Procter and Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, Stiefel, Galderma, Novartis and Graceway,
to name a few. Ms. McMorran, who holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honors) degree, spent six years in the pharmaceutical industry with
Astra Pharma. Additionally, she has held senior management level positions with a number of healthcare companies, focusing on business
development, sales, marketing and operations.
Family Relationships
There are no family relationships
between or among the directors, executive officers or persons nominated or chosen by us to become directors or executive officers.
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Involvement in Certain
Legal Proceedings
To the best of our knowledge,
during the past ten years, none of the following occurred with respect to a present or former director, executive officer, or employee:
(1) any bankruptcy petition filed by or against any business of which such person was a general partner or executive officer either
at the time of the bankruptcy or within two years prior to that time; (2) any conviction in a criminal proceeding or being subject
to a pending criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations and other minor offenses); (3) being subject to any order, judgment
or decree, not subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated, of any court of competent jurisdiction, permanently or temporarily
enjoining, barring, suspending or otherwise limiting his or her involvement in any type of business, securities or banking activities;
and (4) being found by a court of competent jurisdiction (in a civil action), the SEC or the Commodities Futures Trading Commission
to have violated a federal or state securities or commodities law, and the judgment has not been reversed, suspended or vacated.
Audit Committee
We do not have a separately
designated standing audit committee. The entire board of directors performs the functions of an audit committee, but no written
charter governs the actions of the board of directors when performing the functions of that would generally be performed by an
audit committee. The board of directors approves the selection of our independent accountants and meets and interacts with the
independent accountants to discuss issues related to financial reporting. In addition, the board of directors reviews the scope
and results of the audit with the independent accountants, reviews with management and the independent accountants our annual operating
results, considers the adequacy of our internal accounting procedures and considers other auditing and accounting matters including
fees to be paid to the independent auditor and the performance of the independent auditor.
We do not have an audit committee
financial expert because of the size of our company and our board of directors at this time. We believe that we do not require
an audit committee financial expert at this time because we retain outside consultants who possess these attributes as needed.
For the fiscal year ending
December 31, 2020, the board of directors:
Reviewed and discussed the
audited financial statements with management, and
Reviewed and discussed the
written disclosures and the letter from our independent auditors on the matters relating to the auditor’s independence.
Based upon the board of directors’ review and discussion of the matters above, the board of directors authorized inclusion of the audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2020 to be included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Section
16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance
Section
16(a) of the Exchange Act requires our directors and executive officers and persons who beneficially own more than ten percent
of a registered class of the Company’s equity securities to file with the SEC initial reports of ownership and reports of
changes in ownership of common stock and other equity securities of the Company. Officers, directors and greater than ten percent
beneficial shareholders are required by SEC regulations to furnish us with copies of all Section 16(a) forms they file. To the
best of our knowledge based solely on a review of Forms 3, 4, and 5 (and any amendments thereof) received by us during or with
respect to the year ended December 31, 2020, the following persons have failed to file, on a timely basis, the identified reports
required by Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act during fiscal year ended December 31, 2020:
Name and principal position
Number
of
late
reports
Transactions
not
timely
reported
Known
failures to
file
a required form
Terry Howlett
CEO, CFO & Director
David St. James
Doreen McMorran
Code of Ethics
We adopted a Code of Ethics
for Financial Executives, which include our principal executive officer, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer
or controller, or persons performing similar functions. The Code of Ethics was filed as an exhibit to the annual report on Form
10KSB for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2004 and filed with the SEC on April 14, 2005.
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Item
11. Executive Compensation
Compensation Discussion
and Analysis
Currently, the objective of
the cash compensation paid by the company is to provide fair reimbursement for the time spent by our executive officer and independent
directors to the extent feasible within the financial constraints faced by our developing business. The stock options granted to
our executive officer and to our independent directors are intended to provide these individuals with incentives to pursue the
growth and development of the company’s operations and business opportunities. Although the options awarded to our executive
and directors are typically exercisable immediately, they also remain valid and exercisable for terms of several years. We believe
this provides the proper balance of short-term and long-term incentives to increase the value of the company. Although an immediate
increase in share price following the issuance of the options would obviously result in a profit if those options were exercised,
the longer exercisable period of the options also provides an incentive to increase value over the long term and gives our executive
officer and directors the opportunity to realize gains based on the sustained growth of our operations and revenues.
In addition, our sole executive
officer holds substantial ownership in the company and is generally motivated by a strong entrepreneurial interest in expanding
our operations and revenue base to the best of his ability.
Summary Compensation Table
The table below summarizes
all compensation awarded to, earned by, or paid to our former or current executive officers for the fiscal years ended December
31, 2020 and 2019.
SUMMARY COMPENSATION TABLE
Name and principal position
Year
Salary ($)
Bonus
($)
Stock
Awards
($)
Option
Awards
($)
Non-Equity
Incentive Plan
Compensation
($)
Nonqualified
Deferred
Compensation
Earnings ($)
All Other
Compensation
($)
Total
($)
Terry Howlett
CEO & CFO
2020
2019
180,000
180,000
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
180,000 1)
180,000 (2)
(1) Due to financial constraints,
however, the total paid to Mr. Howlett during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020 was $0.
(2) Due to financial constraints,
however, the total salary paid to Mr. Howlett during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019 was $0.
Narrative Disclosure
to the Summary Compensation Table
We granted Mr. Howlett
the right to convert his accrued compensation of $270,000 and $90,000 as of December 31, 2020 and 2019 into our common stock at
$1.00 per share at any time until 2022. If exercised, we also agreed to issue a three-year warrant to Mr. Howlett to purchase
an aggregate amount of 135,000 and 45,000 shares of common shares at a strike price of $1.50 per share for the years ended December
31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
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Outstanding Equity
Awards at Fiscal Year-End
The table below summarizes
all unexercised options, stock that has not vested, and equity incentive plan awards for each named executive officer as of December
31, 2020.
OUTSTANDING EQUITY AWARDS AT FISCAL YEAR-END
OPTION AWARDS
STOCK AWARDS
Name
Number of Securities Underlying Unexercised Options (#)Exercisable
Number of Securities Underlying Unexercised Options (#) Unexercisable
Equity Incentive Plan Awards: Number of Securities Underlying Unexercised Unearned Options (#)
Option Exercise Price ($) (1)
Option Expiration Date
Number of Shares or Units of Stock That Have Not Vested(#)
Market Value of Shares or Units of Stock That Have Not Vested ($)
Equity Incentive Plan Awards: Number of Unearned Shares, Units or Other Rights That Have Not Vested (#)
Equity Incentive Plan Awards: Market or Payout Value of Unearned Shares, Units or Other Rights That Have Not Vested (#)
Terry Howlett
34,000
$1.50
2/8/21
-
-
-
-
The table
below summarizes all compensation of our directors as of December 31, 2020.
DIRECTOR COMPENSATION
Name
Fees
Earned or Paid in Cash
($)
Stock
Awards ($)
Option
Awards
($)
Non-Equity
Incentive Plan Compensation ($)
Non-Qualified
Deferred Compensation Earnings
($)
All
Other Compensation ($)
Total
($)
David St. James
$6,000
-
-
-
-
-
-
Narrative Disclosure to
the Director Compensation Table
All the fees earned or paid
in cash and stock options awards granted to Terry Howlett were earned in connection with his service as an executive officer. Mr.
Howlett received no compensation for his service as a member of our board of directors.
Mr St. James was paid $6,000
for his services during the year ended December 31, 2020.
On September 22, 2018, we
granted an option to purchase 2,000 shares of our common stock to Mr. St. James. The options have a strike price of $1.75. The
stock options were exercisable upon grant and have a life of 5 years. The stock options were valued at $35,497 using the Black-Scholes
option pricing model.
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Item
12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters
The following table sets forth,
as of April 6, 2021, the beneficial ownership of our common stock by each executive officer and director, by each person known
by us to beneficially own more than 5% of our common stock and by the executive officers and directors as a group.
Title of class
Name and address of beneficial owner (1)
Amount of beneficial ownership (2)
Percent of class (3)
Executive Officers & Directors:
Common
Terry Howlett (4)
11,041,001 shares
71.2%
Common
David St. James (5)
2,000
Less than 1%
Total of All Directors and Executive Officers:
11,043,001 shares
71.2%
More Than 5% Beneficial Owners:
Doreen McMorran (6)
10,325,510 shares
69.8%
(1)
Except as otherwise indicated, the address of each person named in this table is c/o Skinvisible, Inc., 6320 South Sandhill Road, Suite 10, Las Vegas, Nevada 89120.
(2)
As used in this table, "beneficial ownership" means the sole or shared power to vote, or to direct the voting of, a security, or the sole or shared investment power with respect to a security (i.e., the power to dispose of, or to direct the disposition of, a security). In addition, for purposes of this table, a person is deemed, as of any date, to have "beneficial ownership" of any security that such person has the right to acquire within 60 days after such date.
(3)
Except as otherwise indicated, all shares are owned directly and
the percentage shown is based on 4,539,843 shares of common stock issued and outstanding on April 6, 2021.
(4)
Includes 154,466 shares held in his name as indicated on our shareholder
list, and 11,041,001 shares of common stock held in derivative securities.
(5)
Includes an option to purchase 2,000 shares of common stock at $0.035
per share.
(6)
Includes 36,000 shares held in her name as indicated on our shareholder list, and 10,350,510 shares of common stock held in derivative securities.
Item
13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence
Aside from that which follows
and in “Executive Compensation,” none of our directors or executive officers, nor any proposed nominee for election
as a director, nor any person who beneficially owns, directly or indirectly, shares carrying more than 5% of the voting rights
attached to all of our outstanding shares, nor any members of the immediate family (including spouse, parents, children, siblings,
and in-laws) of any of the foregoing persons has any material interest, direct or indirect, in any transaction for the last two
fiscal years or in any presently proposed transaction which, in either case, has or will materially affect us.
During the year ended December 31, 2019, the
Company sold furniture, fixtures and lab equipment to Ovation Science, a related party, for $75,000, the assets had been fully
depreciated by the Company in prior years and the Company recorded a gain from related party of $75,000 as a result of the sale.
Terry Howlett and Doreen McMorran control Ovation Science.
On February 3, 2020, we entered into a License
Agreement with Ovation Science, pursuant to which the Company granted to Ovation Science Inc. a license for the manufacture and
distribution rights to its hand sanitizer product, DermSafe. In exchange for the license, Ovation Science Inc. agreed to pay to
Skinvisible a percentage on all net sales on the licensed products subject to adjustment in certain situations plus a license fee
payable in year 3 of the agreement if it chooses to continue the license.
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On June 10, 2020, Ovation Science Inc. paid
the Company the fee otherwise due in year 3 and in exchange the Company extended the term of Ovation’s license to 6-years
and granted Ovation additional rights to its hand sanitizer products and assigned Canadian Identification Numbers 02310589 and
02355558, all DermSafe Trademarks, DermSafe clinical data and the right to patent DermSafe where not currently patented. In exchange
for these rights Ovation paid a $100,000 license fee. The Company completed the required assignments during the year ending December
31, 2020 and recognized $100,000 in revenue.
The Company earned $15,861 in royalties under
the license agreement during the year ending December 31, 2020.
The Company sold polymer products to Ovation
Science Inc and earned $7,132 and 0 as of December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
During
the year ended December 31, 2020, $27,000 was advanced by Terry Howlett and
$400 was repaid to Terry Howlett and $21,000 was repaid to Doreen McMorran .
As of December 31, 2020, $52,499
and $0 in advances remained due to Mr. Howlett and Ms. McMorran, respectively, and all other related party notes have been extinguished
or re-negotiated as convertible notes.
The following table
details the notes that are outstanding for Terry Howlett and Doreen McMorran.
Noteholder
Date of Note
Interest
Maturity
Outstanding Principal as of December 31, 2020
Terry Howlett
June 30, 2019
10%
December 31, 2024
$2,108,519
Terry Howlett
June 30, 2019
10%
December 31, 2024
$68,788
Terry Howlett
December 31, 2019
10%
December 31, 2019
$25,899
Accrued Interest as of December 31, 2020
Terry Howlett
$328,087
Noteholder
Date of Note
Interest
Maturity
Outstanding Principal as of December 31, 2020
Doreen McMorran
June 30, 2019
10%
December 31, 2024
$2,004,502
Doreen McMorran
June 30, 2019
10%
December 31, 2024
$53,400
Doreen McMorran
December 31, 2019
10%
December 31, 2019
$21,000
Accrued Interest as of December 31, 2020
Doreen McMorran
$310,095
Item 14. Principal Accounting
Fees and Services
Below is the table of Audit
Fees (amounts in US$) billed by our auditor in connection with the audit of the Company’s annual financial statements for
the years ended:
Financial Statements for the
Year Ended December 31
Audit Services
Audit Related Fees
Tax Fees
Other Fees
2019
$ 34,500
$ 0
$ 0
$ 0
2020
$ 35,611
$ 0
$ 0
$ 0
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PART
IV
Item 15. Exhibits, Financial
Statements Schedules
(a)
Financial Statements and Schedules
The following
financial statements and schedules listed below are included in this Form 10-K.
Financial
Statements (See Item 8)
(b)
Exhibits
Exhibit Number
Description
2.1
Agreement and Plan of Merger (6)
3.1
Articles of Incorporation, as amended (1)
3.2
Bylaws, as amended (1)
3.3
Certificate of Amendment (2)
3.4
Certificate of Change (7)
4.1
Convertible Promissory Note (4)
4.2
Convertible Promissory Note (5)
10.1
Promissory Note, dated December 17, 2015 (8)
10.2
Promissory Note, dated October 8, 2015 (8)
10.3
Securities Purchase Agreement (4)
10.4
Securities Purchase Agreement (5)
14.1
Code of Ethics (3)
31.1
Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Securities Exchange Act Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a), as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
31.2
Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Securities Exchange Act Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a), as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
32.1
Certification of Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
1
Incorporated by reference to the Registration Statement on Form 10SB12G filed on April; 30, 1999.
2
Incorporated by reference to the Report on Form 8-K filed on September 12, 2008.
3
Incorporated by reference to Current report on Form 10-KSB filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 14, 2005.
4
Incorporated by reference to the Report on Form 8-K filed on April 20, 2017
5
Incorporated by reference to the Report on Form 8-K filed on August 8, 2017
6
Incorporated by reference to the Report on Form 8-K filed on March 29, 2018
7
Incorporated by reference to the Report on Form 8-K filed on January 22, 2019
8
Incorporated by reference to the Report on Form
10-K filed on April 14, 2016
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant
to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed
on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
Skinvisible,
Inc.
By:
/s/ Terry Howlett
Terry
Howlett
President,
Chief Executive Officer, Principal Executive Officer,
Chief
Financial Officer, Principal Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer and Director
April 15, 2021
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange 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 indicated.
By:
/s/
Terry Howlett
Terry Howlett
President,
Chief Executive Officer, Principal Executive Officer,
Chief
Financial Officer, Principal Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer and Director
April 15, 2021
By:
/s/
David St. James
David St. James
Director
April 15, 2021
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