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ITEM 5.02.
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Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
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On July 23, 2020, the Board of Directors of OPKO Health, Inc. (the “Company”), appointed Jon R. Cohen, M.D. as a new director with immediate effect to serve until the Company’s 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until his successor shall be duly elected or appointed or his earlier death or resignation. There was no arrangement or understanding between Dr. Cohen and any other persons pursuant to which Dr. Cohen was selected as a director. Since the beginning of the Company’s last fiscal year, the Company has not engaged in any transaction, or any currently proposed transaction, in which Dr. Cohen had or will have a direct or indirect material interest that would require disclosure pursuant to Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K promulgated by the Securities Exchange Commission (“SEC”).
Since January 2019, Dr. Cohen has served as Executive Chairman of the Company’s subsidiary, BioReference Laboratories, Inc. Dr. Cohen previously served for nearly a decade as a senior executive at Quest Diagnostics Incorporated. Prior to his tenure at Quest Diagnostics, he served as Chief Policy Advisor for New York Governor David Paterson and for six years as Chief Medical Officer for Northwell Health.
The Company has also entered into its standard director indemnification agreement with Dr. Cohen, a form of which has been filed or incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.3 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019 filed with the SEC on March 2, 2020.
In addition, on July 22, 2020, the Board of Directors of the Company appointed Rulfo Hernandez, the Company’s current Corporate Controller, as the Company’s Chief Accounting Officer, Treasurer and Global Corporate Controller. Mr. Hernandez, who is 41 years old, joined the Company as the Company’s Corporate Controller in May 2014 and has served in that capacity since that time. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Hernandez served as a senior manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP from 2002-2014. Mr. Hernandez is a CPA.
There are no family relationships between Mr. Hernandez and any director or executive officer of the Company. Since the beginning of the Company’s last fiscal year, the Company has not engaged in any transaction, or any currently proposed transaction, in which Mr. Hernandez had or will have a direct or indirect material interest that would require disclosure under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K promulgated by the SEC.
No new compensatory plan arrangements were entered into with Mr. Hernandez in connection with his designation as the Company’s Chief Accounting Officer. Mr. Hernandez is otherwise entitled to receive such benefits of employment as are generally available to the Company’s other executive officers, as described in the Company’s definitive proxy statement on Schedule 14A for the Company’s 2020 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, as filed with the SEC on April 29, 2020.
The Company also entered into its standard officer indemnification agreement with Mr. Hernandez, a form of which has been filed or incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.4 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019 filed with the SEC on March 2, 2020.