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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001104659-23-081367
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	DFAN14A
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
FILED AS OF DATE:		20230717
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20230717

SUBJECT COMPANY:	

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Ocean Power Technologies, Inc.
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001378140
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	ELECTRIC SERVICES [4911]
		IRS NUMBER:				222535818
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			NJ
		FISCAL YEAR END:			0430

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		DFAN14A
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-33417
		FILM NUMBER:		231090395

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		28 ENGELHARD DRIVE
		STREET 2:		SUITE B
		CITY:			MONROE TOWNSHIP
		STATE:			NJ
		ZIP:			08831
		BUSINESS PHONE:		609-730-0400

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		28 ENGELHARD DRIVE
		STREET 2:		SUITE B
		CITY:			MONROE TOWNSHIP
		STATE:			NJ
		ZIP:			08831

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	Ocean Power Technologies, INc.
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20061012

FILED BY:		

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Paragon Technologies, Inc.
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000090045
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	CONSTRUCTION, MINING & MATERIALS HANDLING MACHINERY & EQUIP [3530]
		IRS NUMBER:				221643428
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		DFAN14A

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		101 LARRY HOLMES DRIVE, STE 500
		CITY:			EASTON
		STATE:			PA
		ZIP:			18042
		BUSINESS PHONE:		6105594015

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		101 LARRY HOLMES DRIVE, STE 500
		CITY:			EASTON
		STATE:			PA
		ZIP:			18042

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	PARAGON TECHNOLOGIES INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20000420

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	SI HANDLING SYSTEMS INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19920703
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; background-color: white">On July 7, 2023, Paragon Technologies, Inc.
issued a letter relating to Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. (the &ldquo;Company&rdquo;), a copy of which is set forth below:</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">Dear Shareholders of OPT:</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">Paragon Technologies (OTC: PGNT) owns approximately
3.9% of the outstanding shares of Ocean Power Technologies (NYSE American: OPTT) and has become one of the largest, if not the largest,
single shareholder in OPT. Paragon is a diversified holding company known for pursuing out of favor, overlooked and misunderstood businesses
with opportunities for profitability and sustainability. We are patient investors that believe durable investment returns are realized
when businesses, in the hands of able management and under the governance of a strong board of directors, pursue a long-term approach
and avoid the pitfalls of short-term focus. The results at Paragon reflect the long-term benefits of this approach to our stakeholders.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">We have analyzed OPT&rsquo;s business operations
and the significant and uninterrupted losses at OPT since it began operations in 1994. OPT&nbsp;<I>has generated net losses every single
year for nearly 30 years.</I>&nbsp;Such a dismal business history at OPT has naturally led to a corresponding destruction of shareholder
value.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">On May 19, 2023, Paragon sent a letter to the
OPT Board outlining our concerns regarding the company&rsquo;s ongoing cash burn, what we believe is the lack of a coherent plan to achieve
profitability before the cash is depleted and the resulting destruction of shareholder value that we believe reflects the gross mismanagement
and negligence by OPT&rsquo;s Board of Directors.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">OPT may reflect the most epic failure of a business
we have encountered:</P>

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    <TD STYLE="text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Since 1994, when OPT commenced operations, OPT has never had a profitable year. The company has generated accumulated losses of nearly $300 million with minimal revenues each year.</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">OPT&rsquo;s share price has declined from a split adjusted $1,200 per share to $0.60 cents today.</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">OPT has spent decades attempting to commercialize the same products, failed to do so and burned through hundreds of millions of dollars in the process.</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">OPT&rsquo;s current market cap is approximately $33 million, a valuation supported solely by the Company&rsquo;s cash balance and effectively placing a zero ($0) enterprise value on the company&rsquo;s business operations.</FONT></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">We believe the current CEO and Board of Directors
have grossly neglected and violated their fiduciary obligation to exercise a duty of care and loyalty in managing OPT. Most appalling,
the entire Board of Directors including the CEO collectively own less than 0.7% of the Company&rsquo;s shares. Insiders are in no way
aligned with shareholders.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">In 2020 OPT, realizing the continued failure of
its business, appointed its current CEO and added 3 new directors.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">From fiscal year starting May 1, 2020, through
Jan. 31, 2023:</P>

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    <TD STYLE="text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">OPT has generated total revenues of approximately $4.8 million and reported net losses of $50.2 million.</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Annual operating expenses have skyrocketed from $12 million to over $21 million in less 3 years.</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">During the last three quarters, OPT&rsquo;s expenses totaled $19.5 million for $1.7 million in revenues.</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Unable to raise debt due to lack of any profitable business operations when interest rates were at historic lows, OPT diluted shareholders by issuing an unprecedented amount of stock to fund these staggering losses and continue paying executives and directors generous compensation packages without showing any demonstrable improvement in operations or results.</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><B>Shares outstanding have increased by over 700%&nbsp;</B></FONT>from 7.2 million shares to 58.7 million shares (as of June 30, 2023).</TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">In our May 19 letter, we alluded to all the above
and, additionally:</P>

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    <TD STYLE="text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">OPT&rsquo;s management and board appear to have no articulated strategy or measurable business plan to indicate to shareholders that company results will be demonstrably different in the future, but rather, management and the board continue to express a strategy based solely on hope.</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">OPT&rsquo;s continued cash burn rate of $5-6 million per quarter implies that the company only has 5 quarters before it becomes insolvent.</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Management&rsquo;s publicly stated goal of $9 million in new bookings, if achievable, only generates one additional quarter of solvency further indicating that OPT management fails to recognize the impact of the company generating staggering losses given annual operating expenses that exceed $21 million.</FONT></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">OPT&rsquo;s response to our May 2023 letter failed
to address a single one of our concerns related to the business but instead stated:</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify"><I>&ldquo;We note and appreciate your interest
in working constructively with us to help drive value for all OPT shareholders&hellip;We do hope ongoing communications can be held on
a professional, respectful and productive basis.&rdquo;</I></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">However, OPT did nothing of the sort. Instead,
they offered us an opportunity to submit resumes and applications for potential Board members that required our nominees to subject themselves
to significantly more onerous requirements than current board members had been subjected to as a condition of their election to the board.
Paragon responded that we would be happy to submit our nominees to the same customary nomination process as their current directors.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">Likely sensing their acute vulnerability as directors
given their dismal track record, and despite their lack of meaningful equity ownership, the OPT Board took self-serving entrenchment actions,
including:</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

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    <TD STYLE="text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">On June 9, 2023, OPT amended their by-laws to create a burdensome and unnecessary nomination process that exceeds the standards to which the existing board members were required to comply.</FONT></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

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    <TD STYLE="text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">On June 30, 2023, OPT adopted a poison pill preventing any shareholder from acquiring over 4.99% of the company&rsquo;s stock, apparently to protect the company&rsquo;s tax losses but likely a ruse to prevent any shareholder from acquiring a significant block of stock that might be used to hold management and the board to account for their actions. OPT has been generating losses for almost 30 consecutive years, yet only after Paragon expressed concern about the continued losses, cash burn and lack of a clear path to profitability did the board adopt a poison pill designed more to protect the Board and management rather than protect losses unlikely to provide any value or benefit to shareholders.</FONT></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">By taking the above action, the Board has signaled
that it does not wish to consider the opinions of significant shareholders who are willing to call them out for the irreparable damage
they have caused to OPT shareholders. Instead, they want to retain the ability to hand-pick directors who are unlikely to bring any changes
to the ongoing destruction of shareholder value.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">The marketplace likewise views OPT as a failure.
The Company&rsquo;s stock price has nose-dived, declining from a reverse-split adjusted high of $1,200 per share in 2011 to barely $0.60
per share now. Further,&nbsp;OPT shares have continued to trade at a discount to net cash on the Company&rsquo;s balance sheet, indicating
that the market continues to assess a negative value to&nbsp;<I>all</I>&nbsp;of OPT&rsquo;s loss-generating businesses.&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">Paragon Technologies intends to provide a slate
of director nominees uniquely qualified to stem the company&rsquo;s losses, reduce the cash burn and provide a &ldquo;go to market&rdquo;
strategy designed to create profitable operations that we believe will generate meaningful shareholder value at OPT over the course of
many years as we have done at Paragon. Since we joined the Board of Paragon Technologies over a decade ago, the Company&rsquo;s share
price has more than tripled. Over the past seven and one-half years, since we assumed operational control:</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

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    <TD STYLE="text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Paragon shares have increased&nbsp;<B>ten-fold, or more than 940%, for an annualized return of approximately 35% per year</B>.</FONT></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

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    <TD STYLE="width: 24px; font-size: 10pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt">&middot;</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Through prudent and opportunistic management, we have increased annual revenues from over $11 million to over $120 million.</FONT></TD></TR>
  </TABLE>
<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

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    <TD STYLE="width: 24px">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 24px; font-size: 10pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt">&middot;</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Paragon shares outstanding only increased approximately 4% during that time, meaning the above gains benefited our outside shareholders.</FONT></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

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    <TD STYLE="width: 24px; font-size: 10pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt">&middot;</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Insiders own nearly 30% of the outstanding shares with more than 90% of those shares acquired in the open market.</FONT></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">We have a plan to fix OPT and we are supremely
confident we can execute that plan.&nbsp;<B>We have done it before</B>. Most of all, our confidence is evidenced by our willingness to
own a substantial amount of OPT stock.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">Likely sensing their vulnerability, their potential
personal liability, and their inability to defend their dismal track record, the board has adopted entrenchment measures that pose harm
to all shareholders rather than working with Paragon to try and fix OPT. These are the actions of a six-member Board that collectively
own less than 500,000 shares, or 0.7% of OPT shares, accumulated without financial risk through stock grants, as opposed to open market
purchases. Conversely, Paragon owns over 2.1 million shares acquired in the open market.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Our actions to date reflect our view that there is no reasonable path
forward for OPT under the current regime. When insiders have no financial exposure to the company&rsquo;s results and are not negatively
impacted by the destruction of shareholder value they have overseen, what expectation should shareholders have that anything will change
going forward unless someone like Paragon gets involved to force shareholder interests to the forefront of the company&rsquo;s agenda?&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">The only asset of any value to OPT shareholders today is the cash on
the balance sheet. For years, the stock market has valued OPT based on that cash with zero ascribed to enterprise value. As the cash evaporates,
so does the share price. For years, the OPT Board raised additional cash by simply issuing more stock, diluting existing shareholders
but not themselves since they don&rsquo;t own a meaningful amount of stock.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify"><B>Armed with more money, the Board paid themselves
more money. Between fiscal 2020 and fiscal 2022 total OPT Board compensation across five directors more than doubled from $397,000 to
over $837,000.</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">It is time for the status quo at OPT to change.
In our opinion, as significant shareholders, the current Board is undeniability and unequivocally unfit to serve OPT shareholders. Despite
our experience and instincts telling us otherwise, we were prepared to work with them to find solutions that were in the best interest
of OPT shareholders. Instead of hearing us out, the Board has cleverly built a fence to insulate themselves and to prevent any shareholder,
without their blessing, from pursuing constructive change. Their unwillingness to acknowledge and accept reasonable and rational criticism
should confirm to all OPT shareholders that this Board is unfit to serve the interests of shareholders and should be replaced at all costs.
In addition, we believe that the Directors should be held accountable for their inability to protect shareholders and fulfill their duties
under Delaware law.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">Paragon believes that OPT&rsquo;s Board has violated
the most fundamental fiduciary obligation that directors are required to uphold, its duty of care in doing what is in the best interests
of shareholders. On behalf of all shareholders, Paragon intends to hold the Board accountable to the fullest extent of the law.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in">&nbsp;</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">We appreciate the support from shareholders thus
far. Please email us at ir@pgntgroup.com if you would like to learn more.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Respectfully on behalf of the Board of Paragon Technologies,</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Sham Gad</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Chairman of the Board</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Paragon Technologies</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center; background-color: white">***</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center; background-color: white">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="text-align: justify; font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; background-color: white">On July 14, 2023, Paragon Technologies, Inc.
filed an amendment to its Schedule 13D, disclosing that Paragon Technologies, Inc. has initiated a book and records request in order to
investigate alleged wrongdoing and/or mismanagement by the Company&rsquo;s board of directors and/or members of management, to inquire
into the independence of the members of the board of directors, and to assess possible breaches of fiduciary duty by the Company&rsquo;s
directors and officers. If the Company&rsquo;s board of directors does not fully comply with the books and records request, the Reporting
Person intends to file litigation in the State of Delaware to enforce its rights.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; background-color: white">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center; background-color: white">***</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center; background-color: white">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify; background-color: white">Paragon Technologies, Inc. intends to make
a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &ldquo;SEC&rdquo;) of a proxy statement to be used to solicit votes for the
election of director nominees at the currently unscheduled 2023 annual meeting of shareholders of Ocean Power Technologies, Inc., a Delaware
corporation (the &ldquo;company&rdquo;).</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; background-color: white">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify; background-color: white">Paragon Technologies, Inc. is the beneficial
owner of 2,229,443 shares of common stock of the company, par value $0.001 per share (&ldquo;Common Stock&rdquo;).</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; background-color: white">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify; background-color: white"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Paragon
Technologies, Inc., and Paragon&rsquo;s director nominees will be the participants in the proxy solicitation. Updated information regarding
the participants and their direct and indirect interests in the solicitation, by security holdings or otherwise, will be included in
Paragon&rsquo;s proxy statement and other materials filed with the SEC. SHAREHOLDERS OF THE COMPANY SHOULD READ THE PROXY STATEMENT AND
OTHER PROXY MATERIALS CAREFULLY AND IN THEIR ENTIRETY AS THEY BECOME AVAILABLE AS THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION RELATING TO
THE COMPANY&rsquo;S ANNUAL MEETING, PARAGON&rsquo;S SOLICITATION OF PROXIES AND PARAGON&rsquo;S NOMINEES TO THE BOARD. SUCH PROXY MATERIALS
WILL BE AVAILABLE AT NO CHARGE ON THE SEC&rsquo;S WEB SITE AT&nbsp;<U>WWW.SEC.GOV</U></FONT>&nbsp;OR FROM PARAGON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.</P>

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