Item
5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements
of Certain Officers.
On
June 22, 2018, we appointed Alphonso Jackson as a director of our company. Mr. Jackson has been a member of our advisory board
since June 7, 2018.
Mr.
Jackson, age 72, is the chief executive officer of A.R. Jackson Advisors, LLC since June 2017. Mr. Jackson has decades of experience
in housing and community development. His expertise includes development of affordable and market rate housing, handling complex
urban development issues and housing finance.
Mr.
Jackson worked for First Data Corporation as its Senior Advisor from January 2015 to June 2017. Based out of the Washington, DC
office, his primary focus was to strengthen First Data Corporation’s relationships with government entities, public policy
initiatives, and maximizing business opportunities in the sector. In addition, Mr. Jackson helped expand and support First Data
Corporation’s many diversity efforts.
From
May 2012 to July 2014, Mr. Jackson served as Vice Chairman of Consumer & Community Banking at JP Morgan Chase in New York
City. From August 2008 to May 2012, he served as the distinguished university professor and Director of the Center for Public
Policy and Leadership at Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia.
Mr.
Jackson was appointed the 13th Secretary of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development in March 2004. Nominated by President
George W. Bush, he was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate. Mr. Jackson served as the Secretary until April 2008.
Mr.
Jackson holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and a Master’s in education administration from Truman State
University. He also received a Juris Doctor degree from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Missouri.
In
connection with the appointment of Alphonso Jackson as a director of our company, we entered into an offer letter with Mr. Jackson,
pursuant to which, among other things, we agreed to pay Mr. Jackson $50,000 in annual cash compensation and grant 100,000 stock
options, which stock options were previously granted on June 7, 2018 in connection with his appointment as a member of our advisory
board. The stock options are exercisable at the exercise price of $0.60 per share until June 7, 2028. The stock options become
exercisable as follows: (i) 1/3 on the grant date, (ii) 1/3 on the first anniversary of the grant date and (iii) 1/3 on the second
anniversary of the grant date. We granted the stock options to one U.S. Person (as that term is defined in Regulation S of the
Securities Act of 1933) and in issuing securities we relied on the registration exemption provided for in Section 4(a)(2) of the
Securities Act of 1933
, as amended.
Family
Relationships
No
family relationships exist between any of our directors or executive officers.
Certain
Related Transactions and Relationships
Except
as disclosed above, we have not been party to any transaction with Mr. Jackson since January 1, 2016, or any currently proposed
transaction with Mr. Jackson in which we were or is to be a participant and where the amount involved exceeds the lesser of $120,000
or one percent of the average of our total assets at year end for the last two completed fiscal years, and in which Mr. Jackson
had or will have a direct or indirect material interest.