Item
5.02
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Departure
of Director or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangement of Certain
Officers
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On
December 22, 2016, Daniel Carlson, Ray Martin and Sriram Peruvemba resigned from the Board of Directors and Mr. Peruvemba resigned
from the positions of CEO and President. Following these resignations, Stephen Squires, Shane Squires and Ghassan Jabbour were
appointed to the Board of Directors and the new Board of Directors, including David Doderer who is continuing to serve on the
Board, elected Stephen Squires Interim Chief Executive Officer and President. As Mr. Squires is currently an employee of the Company,
he has an employment agreement that is described in the Form 8-K dated June 15, 2016. There have been no changes to this agreement
as of the date hereof.
Stephen
Squires
has over 25 years of experience in turnarounds, startups, business development, mergers and acquisitions and strategic
planning. Mr. Squires is skilled at identifying emerging technologies and driving commercialization/global market introduction
to position companies for growth. He has served as the Company’s President, CEO and Chairman from 2008 to June 30, 2016
and he is currently serving as a General Manager of Solterra. Prior to QMC, from 2001 to 2008, Mr. Squires’ principal occupation
was consulting and advising in the areas of advanced materials, nanotechnology, applications engineering, strategic international
marketing with emphasis on middle east and commercialization of emerging technologies for Orasi LLC. From 1983 to 2001, Mr. Squires,
as founder, served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Aviation Composite Technologies, Inc., a company whose principal
business was the engineering, design, manufacture and refurbishment of advanced composite aero structures (“Aviation Composite”).
Under Mr. Squires’ leadership, Aviation Composite grew from zero to over 200 employees and operated a 100,000 square foot
state of the art facility. Aviation Composite was merged with USDR Aerospace in 2001. From 1977 to 1983, he worked at McDonnell
Douglas Corporation, a company engaged in the business of building advanced tactical fighter aircraft and space vehicles, developing
and adapting advanced materials for combat aircraft applications.
Dr.
Ghassan E. Jabbour
is Director & Professor (Photonics, Printed/Flexible Devices, Displays & Lighting, Smart Textile
& Paper, Renewable Energy. Previously, he was a Director of the Solar and Alternative Energy Science and Engineering Research
Center at KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) in Saudi Arabia. Prior to this Dr. Jabbour was the Director
of Flexible and Organic Electronics Development at the Flexible Display Center (FDC) since 2006 and a Professor of Chemical and
Materials Engineering at Arizona State University since 2006. He is also the Technical Advisory Board Leader on Optoelectronic
Materials, Devices and Encapsulation at FDC. He has been selected to the Asahi Shimbun 100 New Leaders of the USA and has received
the Presidential Award for Excellence from the Hariri Foundation in 1997. Dr. Jabbour's research experience encompasses flexible-roll-to-roll-electronics
and displays, smart textile, moisture and oxygen barrier technology, transparent conductors, organic light emitting devices, organic
and hybrid photovoltaics, organic memory storage, organic thin film transistors, combinatorial discovery of materials, nano and
macro printed devices, micro and nanofabrication, biosensors, and quantum simulations of electronic materials. Dr. Jabbour attended
Northern Arizona University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the University of Arizona. Dr. Jabbour is an
SPIE fellow. Prof. Jabbour has authored and co-authored over 300 publications, invited talks, and conference proceedings.
He is the editor of several books and symposia proceedings involving organic photonics and electronics, and nanotechnology. Prof.
Jabbour is the guest editor of the MRS Bulletin issue on “Organic Photovoltaics”. He is the Chair and/or Co-Chair
of over 50 conferences related to photonic and electronic properties of organic materials and their applications in displays and
lighting, hybrid photosensitive materials, and hybrid integration of semiconducting and nanotechnology. Dr. Jabbour has scientific
and technical experience with the Company's technology and proposed products. Much of our technology development was accomplished
on site by Dr. Jabbour at the Arizona State University labs. The foregoing scientific knowledge is an important asset to a technology
driven company and to Dr. Jabbour's presence on the Board of Directors of the Company.
Shane
Squires
is currently a research analyst with Invesco Real Estate (a subsidiary of Invesco Ltd.), engaged in the
business of managing global investments in direct real estate, real estate securities, infrastructure securities and
master limited partnerships (MLPs). Mr. Squires has held this position with Invesco Real Estate specializing in
business intelligence and data strategy since March 2016. Prior to this, Mr. Squires held the position of Senior Economist
at Realpage Inc. Mr. Squires, who is the son of Stephen Squires, has a Masters in Applied Economic Analysis and a Bachelor
of Science in Economics from the University of Texas at Arlington.
Daniel
Carlson and Ray Martin each served on the Company’s Audit Committee and Compensation Committee. Daniel Carlson, Ray Martin
and Sriram Peruvemba each served on the Company’s Nominating Governance Committee. As of the filing date of this Form 8-K,
none of the committee vacancies have been filled by the newly appointed directors.
Each
of the directors, namely Sriram Peruvemba, Daniel Carlson and Ray Martin entered into resignation agreements. Reference is made
to Item 1.02 for a description of the resignation agreement of Sriram Peruvemba. Messrs. Carlson’s and Martin’s resignation
agreements, provided among other things, for the vesting of outstanding vested and unvested options/warrants totaling 1,150,000
shares and 691,660 shares, respectively.