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Note 15 - Subsequent Events
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2021
Notes to Financial Statements  
Subsequent Events [Text Block]
NOTE 
15—
SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
 
Exercise of Warrants
 
Since the year ended
March 31, 2020,
the Company issued
52,000
 shares of common stock for warrants exercised at 
$1.20
 for proceeds of
$62,400.
 
Since the year ended
March 31, 2020,
the Company issued
25,000
shares of common stock for warrants exercised at 
$2.60
 for proceeds of
$65,000.
 
On
April 6, 2001,
the Company and Leonard Osser, the Company's Interim Chief Executive Officer, entered into a Succession Agreement to restructure certain of Mr. Osser's existing agreements with the Company, which provide for additional and broader executive support, and at such time as he elects to step down as Interim Chief Executive Officer of the Company, to become the Vice Chairman of the Board  of Directors of the Company. This commitment is expected to be for at least
five
years.
 
Succession Agreement
 
With respect to (i) the Employment Agreement dated as of
July 10, 2017
between Mr. Osser and the Company, pursuant to which upon Mr. Osser stepping down as Chief Executive Officer of the Company the Company agreed to employ him as Managing Director, China Operations of the Company (the “China Operations Agreement”), and (ii) the Consulting Agreement dated as of
July 10, 2017 (
the “Consulting Agreement”) between the Company and U.S. Asian Consulting Group, LLC, a company of which Mr. Osser is a principal, the compensation under the China Operations Agreement is modified to reduce the overall compensation by
$100,000
to
$200,000,
split equally between a cash amount and an amount in shares, and the compensation under the Consulting Agreement is increased by
$100,000
to
$200,000,
equally split between a cash amount and an amount in shares, which shares were formerly payable under the China Operations Agreement.  Compensation under the China Operations Agreement and the Consulting Agreement are payable for
9.5
 years from the date Mr. Osser steps down as Interim-CEO. In connection with his acceptance of the Vice Chairman position and in consideration of his services as a member of the Board and agreement to provide certain additional general consulting services, he will be granted options to purchase
2,000,000
shares of common stock, exercisable at the fair market value of the common stock on the date of grant, vesting over the
five
-year period after he steps down as Chief Executive Officer of the Company or
ten
years from the date of grant, whichever shall end first.
 
Leonard Osser has announced his intention to resign as Interim Chief Executive Officer of the Company effective
May 19, 2021
and will become Vice Chairman of the Board, and Arjan Haverhals, President of the Company, will assume the additional title of Chief Executive Officer of the Company.  The Company has from time to time taken steps to plan for the successor of Mr. Osser, most recently by on-boarding Mr. Haverhals as President and also entering into a previously disclosed Succession Agreement with Mr. Osser. In connection with the appointment by the Board of Directors on
May 12, 2021
of Mr. Haverhals as Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Haverhals and the Company entered into an agreement effective as of
May 19, 2021
increasing the base salary of Mr. Haverhals to
$350,000
per year and providing for annual bonuses of up to
$400,000
per year based, payable
one
-
third
in cash and
two
-thirds in shares of Common Stock of the Company plus options at the rate of double the amount of stock paid. The bonus for the period from
May 19, 2021
through
December 31, 2021
will be determined with respect to the achievement of the
four
bonus targets set forth in the agreement. The bonus targets for subsequent periods will be set by the Compensation Committee from time to time in its reasonable discretion.
 
Also on
May 12, 2021,
the Board of Directors appointed Scott Kahn as the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, effective
May 24, 2021.
Mr. Kahn has experience in environments as diverse as a start-up operation, a company going public for the
first
time (IPO) and divisions of Fortune
500
companies. Mr. Kahn has extensive accounting, finance, information systems and international operations experience. Mr. Kahn's base salary will be
$200,000
per year and he will be entitled to a bonus based on achievement of his and the Company's performance, as determined by the Compensation Committee. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Kahn was Chief Financial Officer and Vice President Finance and Human Resources of Diopsys, Inc., a privately held medical device manufacturer, a position he held since
July 2006.
From
August 2005
to
April 2006,
Mr. Kahn was Chief Financial Officer of Diamond Chemical Co., Inc., a privately held chemical manufacturer. Prior thereto, Mr. Kahn was Corporate Controller of Pharmaceutical Formulations, Inc., publicly traded pharmaceutical manufacturer. Mr. Kahn, a certified public accountant and chartered global management accountant, received a B.A. in Accounting from Franklin and Marshall College, and an M.B.A., International Business, from Rutgers Business School.