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STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
 9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2023
Equity [Abstract]  
STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

NOTE 12 – STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

 

Designation of Series B Preferred Stock

 

Effective June 26, 2023 the Company’s Board of Directors issued a Certificate of Designation, which designated 787,754 shares of the Company’s authorized and unissued preferred stock as convertible Series B Preferred Stock at a par value of $0.00001 per share.

 

2023 1:15 Stock Split

 

Effective June 21, 2023 the Company executed a 1:15 reverse stock split for stockholders of record on that date. This was executed to comply with the Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2) to have the price of the stock above $1.

 

2022 Equity Compensation Awards

 

Effective September 1, 2022, the Board of Directors and Compensation Committee of the Company, with the approval of each of the following officers, agreed to reduce the annual cash compensation payable to Suren Ajjarapu, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer; Prashant Patel, the Company’s President and Chief Operating Officer and Janet Huffman, the Company’s former Chief Financial Officer, in an effort to conserve cash.

 

In lieu of the reduced cash salary payable to each officer, the Board and Compensation Committee agreed to issue such officers shares of the Company’s common stock equal to the amount of reduced cash salary, divided by the closing sales price of the Company’s common stock on the NASDAQ Capital Market on August 31, 2022, the date approved by the Board of Directors. The total amount of shares of common stock issued on August 31, 2022 to the officers was 5,460.

 

The shares of common stock issuable to the officers vested at the rate of 1/4th of such shares on each of September 30, 2022, October 31, 2022, November 30, 2022, and December 31, 2022, subject to each applicable Officer’s continued service to the Company on such dates and subject to the restricted stock award agreements entered into as evidence of such awards.

 

Separately, certain employees of the Company agreed to reduce their cash salaries by an aggregate of $37,000 in consideration for an aggregate of 2,126 shares of the Company’s restricted common stock, with the same vesting terms as the officer shares discussed above.

 

Effective on August 31, 2022, the Board of Directors approved the issuance of 3,635 shares of common stock of the Company to each independent member of the Board of Directors, for services rendered to the Company during fiscal 2022, which shares were valued at $63,250, based on the closing sales price of the Company’s common stock on the date approved by the Board of Directors. The shares vested at the rate of 1/4th of such shares immediately on the grant date, and 1/4th of such shares on each of October 1, 2022, January 1, 2023 and April 1, 2023, subject to each applicable independent director’s continued service to the Company on such dates.

 

 

All of the awards discussed above were issued under the Company’s Second Amended and Restated 2019 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) and all restricted stock awards discussed above were evidenced by Restricted Stock Grant Agreements.