Item
5.02
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Departure
of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain
Officers.
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Appointment
of New Director - Sam Pitroda
On
June 14, 2018, Sam Pitroda was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Company to serve as a director of the Company and as
Chairman of the Board. Mr. Pitroda will continue to serve as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer.
There
is no understanding or arrangement between Mr. Pitroda and any other person pursuant to which he was appointed as director. Mr.
Pitroda does not have any family relationship with any director, executive officer or person nominated or chosen by the Company’s
board to become a director or an executive officer. Mr. Pitroda has not had direct or indirect material interest in any transaction
or proposed transaction, in which the Company was or is a proposed participant, exceeding $120,000.
Mr.
Pitroda is an information technology and telecommunications inventor and entrepreneur. He was the founder and former Chief Executive
Officer of C-Sam, Inc. a provider of mobile wallets and other on-device software, which was founded in 1998 and purchased in 2014
by MasterCard. Earlier in his career Mr. Pitroda also founded a number of other telecommunications companies in India and the
U.S. Mr. Pitroda also served as advisor to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India on Public Information Infrastructure and Innovation
and as a Cabinet Minister under Rajiv Gandhi. Mr. Pitroda has an MS and BS in Physics from Maharaja Sayajai Rao University in
India and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology.
Appointment
of New Director - Page Feldman
On
June 14, 2018, Page Feldman was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Company to serve as a director of the Company.
There
is no understanding or arrangement between Ms. Feldman and any other person pursuant to which she was appointed as director. Ms.
Feldman is the daughter of the Company’s current Executive Chairman of the Board and Treasurer, Jerome I. Feldman. Ms. Feldman
has not had direct or indirect material interest in any transaction or proposed transaction, in which the Company was or is a
proposed participant, exceeding $120,000.
Ms.
Feldman is an Emmy nominated television producer and currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of Scoutabout Entertainment,
a company she founded in 2016. Prior to founding Scoutabout Entertainment, Ms. Feldman worked at Mark Burnett Productions for
12 years as a television and movie producer, including as the Executive Producer of “The Celebrity Apprentice” for
10 seasons. Ms. Feldman has a B.S. from Kenyon College.
Appointment
of New Director - Vinder Sokhi
On
June 14, 2018, Vinder Sokhi was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Company to serve as a director of the Company.
Mr.
Sokhi’s appointment as a director of the Company was a closing condition to the Common Stock financing discussed in Item
3.02 above. Mr. Sokhi does not have any family relationship with any director, executive officer or person nominated or chosen
by the Company’s board to become a director or an executive officer. Mr. Sokhi has not had direct or indirect material interest
in any transaction or proposed transaction, in which the Company was or is a proposed participant, exceeding $120,000.
Mr.
Sokhi has more than a decade of experience in investments and global finance in addition to being a seasoned entrepreneur having
started his own software company after college. His key expertise is in calculating the valuation of public companies and he has
created several models for investment portfolio management. In addition to raising capital for early stage companies similar to
alpha-En, Mr. Sokhi also advises a family office, directly overseeing the management of a portfolio valued at over $50 million.
Mr. Sokhi holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from DYP College of Engineering, India.
On
June 19, 2018 the Company issued a press release announcing the above director appointments. A copy of the press release
is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.2 and incorporated herein by reference.