NOTE 9 - RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS |
12 Months Ended |
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Dec. 31, 2015 | |
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NOTE 9 – RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
The Company appointed a new Chief Financial Officer during August 2014. The Company utilizes Assure Professional, LLC (“Assure”) to provide certain outsourced accounting services. The Company’s current Chief Financial Officer is a partial owner of Assure. The Company incurred expense of $40,687 and $29,940 in exchange for these services during the years ended December 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively. Included in accounts payable at December 31, 2015 and 2014 was $2,250 due to Assure.
Jonathan Merriman was appointed to the Company’s Board of Directors during December 2014. Mr. Merriman is the CEO of Merriman Capital, Inc. (“Merriman”). Merriman provides capital market advisory services to the Company for which we incurred expense of $125,000 and $120,000 during the years ended December 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively. The Company primarily issues common stock in exchange for monthly services and no amount was due to Merriman at December 31, 2015. In addition, Merriman Capital advised the Company in connection with its August 2014 private placement and received an advisory fee of $95,000 and acted as the Company’s placement agent during its most recent offering. During September and October 2015, the Company paid Merriman cash commissions equal to 8% of the gross proceeds of the offering of $164,050 (see note 7) and also reimbursed the placement agent for its out of pocket expenses of $14,167.
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