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<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:6pt;text-indent:0%;font-style:italic;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">Director Resignations</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;text-indent:6.67%;">As required by their employment agreements with the Company, each of Mr. Diaz, Mr. Rezk and Mr. Carrasco are entitled to severance. Each of Mr. Rezk and Mr. Diaz will receive an aggregate of $240,000, representing their base salary for a period of twelve months, payable in shares of common stock of the Company (the &#8220;Shares&#8221;), as well as payment of $24,827.59 representing accrued but unused vacation.&nbsp;&nbsp;Mr. Carrasco will receive an aggregate of $180,000, payable in Shares, representing Mr. Carrasco&#8217;s base salary for a twelve-month period, accelerated vesting of 26,667 restricted Shares, and a payment of $18,620.69 representing accrued but unused vacation.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:6pt;text-indent:4.54%;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">To fill the resulting vacancies, effective June 5, 2019, the Company has appointed Reinier Voigt (age 59) as President and CEO, and Vernon A. LoForti (age 65) as Senior Vice President and CFO.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:12pt;text-indent:0%;font-style:italic;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">Appointment of Reinier Voigt<font style="font-style:normal;"> </font></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:6pt;text-indent:4.54%;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">Prior to his appointment as President and CEO of the Company, Mr. Voigt was appointed to serve as the Chief Operating Officer (the &#8220;COO&#8221;) of the Company on March 12, 2018, when the Company merged with Cooltech Holdings Corp. (&#8220;Cooltech&#8221;). Mr.&#160;Voigt also previously served as the COO of Cooltech from December 2016. From May 2015 until August 2016, Mr. Voigt was the President and COO of TEReI International, and from September 2006 until April 2015 he was COO of Facey Telecom. &#160;Mr. Voigt brings more than twenty years of experience in business operations that have included a focus on profit and loss optimization, strategic planning, finance and financial reporting. He also received the equivalent of a Master in Business Administration from Anton De Kom University of Suriname.&nbsp;&nbsp;<font style="color:#000000;">On September 27, 2018, the company obtained a short&#8209;term loan from Reinier Voigt, our Chief Operating Officer, to the Company in the principal amount of $400,000. The unsecured loan was repaid four days later on October 1, 2018, together with a loan fee of $4,000 (the &#8220;Loan Transaction&#8221;). The Loan Transaction were approved by both the Company&#8217;s audit committee and Board.</font></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:12pt;text-indent:0%;font-style:italic;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">Appointment of Vernon A. LoForti</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent:4.54%;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">Prior to his appointment as Senior Vice President and CFO, Mr. LoForti served the Company as its Vice President and Secretary since the merger of the Company with Cooltech.&nbsp;&nbsp;Prior to that, Mr.&#160;LoForti served as Chief Financial Officer of InfoSonics (the name of the Company prior to the merger) since July 2010. Prior to InfoSonics, Mr.&#160;LoForti served in a number of executive positions at Overland Storage, Inc., a global supplier of data protection appliances. Mr.&#160;LoForti joined Overland in 1995 and served as the company&#8217;s Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary from 1995 to August 2007, including leading its initial public offering in 1997. From August 2007 to September 2009, LoForti served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of Overland&#8217;s Board of Directors. Mr.&#160;LoForti began his career in public accounting with Price Waterhouse and holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Brigham Young University.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:6pt;text-indent:4.54%;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">On June 5, 2019, the Board, on recommendation from the Company&#8217;s nominating and corporate governance committee, elected two new independent members, Kevin Taylor and Vince Virga, to fill the existing vacancies on the Board.&nbsp;&nbsp;In addition to serving as Chairman of the Board and Chair of the compensation committee, Mr. Taylor will be a member of the Company&#8217;s audit committee and nominating and corporate governance committee.&nbsp;&nbsp;Meanwhile, Mr. Virga will be a member of the Company&#8217;s audit and compensation committees, as well as Chair the nominating and corporate governance committee.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:0%;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">MIAMI, June 6, 2019 &#8211; Cool Holdings, Inc. (&#8220;Cool Holdings&#8221; or the &#8220;Company&#8221;) (NASDAQ: AWSM) today announced that it has completed a restructuring of its Board of Directors and senior management team.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Company appointed two new independent directors to its Board: Kevin Taylor, age 50, who will serve as Chairman of the Board, and Vince E. Virga, age 48.&nbsp;&nbsp;Reinier Voigt, who formerly served as the Company&#8217;s Chief Operating Officer, was named President and Chief Executive Officer.&nbsp;&nbsp;Mr. Voigt was also named an employee director to the Board.&nbsp;&nbsp;Vernon&#160;A.&#160;LoForti, who formerly served as the Company&#8217;s Vice President, was named Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.&nbsp;&nbsp;Leaving the Company and the Board are Mauricio Diaz, former Chief Executive Officer, and Felipe Rezk, former Chief Sales and Marketing Officer.&nbsp;&nbsp;Also leaving the Company is Alfredo Carrasco, former Chief Financial Officer.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:0%;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">Both Messrs. Taylor and Virga will join current independent director Michael Galloro as members of the Audit, Compensation and Nominating and Governance Committees.&nbsp;&nbsp;Mr. Galloro will remain chairman of the Audit Committee, Mr. Taylor will serve as chairman of the Compensation Committee, and Mr.&#160;Virga will serve as chairman of the Nominating and Governance Committee.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:0%;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">Commenting on the board and management restructuring, Reinier Voigt, President and Chief Executive Officer of Cool Holdings stated: &#8220;We are positioning our Company for the anticipated closing of the acquisition of Simply Mac, Inc. that we announced on May 9, 2019.&nbsp;&nbsp;We are slimming down our management team and cutting expenses in other areas as we look forward to the integration of the Simply Mac team.&nbsp;&nbsp;We recently consolidated our Miami corporate office into offices at our distribution center in Doral, Florida, and upon closing of the Simply Mac acquisition, plan to relocate our corporate headquarters to Salt Lake City, the current home of Simply Mac.&#8221;</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:0%;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">Commenting further, Mr. Voigt stated: &#8220;We welcome our two new independent directors to the Cool Holdings board.&nbsp;&nbsp;We have significant work ahead of us, and need the experience and expertise of Kevin and Vince to guide us.&nbsp;&nbsp;Both men have lengthy careers of running, restructuring and financing successful organizations, and we look forward to their help in transforming our Company.&#8221;</p>
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<p style="margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent:0%;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">Cool Holdings is a Miami-based company currently comprised of OneClick<sup style="font-size:85%; vertical-align:top">&#174;</sup>, a chain of retail stores and an authorized reseller under the Apple<sup style="font-size:85%; vertical-align:top">&#174;</sup> Premier Partner, APR (Apple<sup style="font-size:85%; vertical-align:top">&#174;</sup> Premium Reseller) and AAR MB (Apple<sup style="font-size:85%; vertical-align:top">&#174;</sup> Authorized Reseller Mono-Brand) programs and Cooltech Distribution, an authorized distributor to the OneClick<sup style="font-size:85%; vertical-align:top">&#174;</sup> stores and other resellers of Apple<sup style="font-size:85%; vertical-align:top">&#174;</sup> products and other high-profile consumer electronic brands. &#160;Additional information can be found on its website at <font style="text-decoration:none;">www.coolholdings.com</font><font style="color:#auto;text-decoration:none;">.</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:6pt;margin-top:12pt;text-indent:0%;font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">Forward-looking and cautionary statements</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:6pt;text-indent:0%;font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Verdana;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">Forward-looking statements in this press release and all other statements that are not historical facts are made under the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements, including those related to the outcome of the Company&#8217;s Board and senior management transition, closing of the acquisition of Simply Mac, Inc., integration and synergy with Simply Mac and the timing for relocation of the Company&#8217;s corporate headquarters, involve factors, risks, and uncertainties that may cause actual results in future periods to differ materially from such statements. There are a number of factors that could cause actual events to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements, including actions by third parties, such as Apple<sup style="font-size:85%; vertical-align:top">&#174;</sup>. These factors include, but are not limited to, risks arising from prevailing market conditions and the impact of general economic industry or political conditions in the United States or globally and risks that the acquisition of Simply Mac does not close. A list and description of these and other risk factors can be found in the Company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and Current Reports on Form 8-K, which can be reviewed at&#160;www.sec.gov. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this release and we undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements to reflect new information, events or circumstances after the date of this release.</p>
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