Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

Effective April 29, 2016, Sagiv Israeli was appointed as the Chief Operating Officer of HydroPhi Technologies Group, Inc. (the “Company”).

Mr. Israeli, age 38, is an entrepreneur bringing to the Company an expertise in management, logistics, retail commerce and sales. As a teenager, Mr. Israeli founded a successful distribution company that served the sovereign territory of Israel in its entirety. Following his tenure as an active duty Special Operatives officer in the Israeli military, he completed studies in economics and international business before emigrating to the United States.  In 1999, he began his career in the gemstone industry, focusing on wholesale diamond sales.  In 2002, he founded his own company with a focus on diamond manufacturing and wholesale sales of loose diamonds and jewelry, which rapidly became one of the largest diamond companies specializing in fancy color and fancy cut diamonds, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Florida and Ohio.  Meanwhile, he also aggressively invested in the turnaround of distressed restaurant enterprises. In 2013, Mr. Israeli began investing in the transportation industry through the purchase of long-haul freight trucks.

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