Item 2.01 Completion of Acquisition or Disposition
of Assets.
On October 29, 2021, TrueNorth Quantum
Inc., a Nevada corporation formerly known as United Royale Holdings Corp. (the “Registrant”) closed its acquisition of
TrueNorth Quantum Inc., (“TNQ” or the “TrueNorth”) a corporation existing under the laws of the Province of
Alberta, Canada pursuant to the Exchange Agreements, Support Agreement and Trust Agreement disclosed in the Registrant’s
Current Report filed October 13, 2021, which description is incorporated herein by reference.
As a result of the foregoing, the Registrant directly
owns approximately 6.19% of TrueNorth from the acquisition of TrueNorth shares from non-Canadian shareholders on a 1:14 basis with such
TrueNorth shareholders receiving 14 newly issued shares of the registrant for every 1 share of TrueNorth exchanged. The remaining interests
in TrueNorth are held by ExchangeCo (as defined in the October 13th Current Report). TrueNorth Canadian shareholders received
14 newly issued preferred shares of ExchangeCo (“Exchangeable Shares”) for every 1 share of TrueNorth exchanged. The common
shares of Exchanco are wholly owned by Callco (as defined in the October 13 Current Report) and Callco is wholly owned by the Registrant.
Canadian TrueNorth shareholders now holding Exchangeable Shares may exchange their Exchangeable Shares in ExchangeCo for common shares
in the Registrant on a 1:1 basis. The registrant has issued approximately 9,053,338 Common Shares to non-Canadian TrueNorth shareholders.
Presuming that all Exchangeable Shares are exchanged for Common Shares of Registrant, registrant shall have issued approximately 155,030,890
Common Shares, before adjustments for any stock splits or forwards, in exchange for its Acquisition of TrueNorth.
Pursuant to the Trust Agreement (as defined in
the October 13 Current Report), holders of Exchangeable Shares of ExchangeCo (former TrueNorth Canadian shareholders) have the beneficial
right to vote in matters of the Registrant via a Series A Preferred Share of the Registrant, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Super
Voting Share”), to be held by TSX Trust Co (“Trustee”) in trust until such time as ExchangeCo’s Exchangeable Shares
shall have been fully exchanged for Common Shares of Registrant (“Common Shares”), at which time the Super Voting Share shall
be automatically cancelled. Until such time as the Super Voting Share is cancelled, it will have the number of votes equal to one (1)
vote plus the number of Exchangeable Shares outstanding as of any given record date for determining stockholders entitled to vote. Trustee
agreed to vote in accordance with instructions it receives from the TrueNorth Shareholders. The Super Voting Share is entitled to vote
at all meetings of the stockholders of the Registrant at which the holders of the Registrant’s Common Shares are entitled to vote,
and with respect to any written consents sought by the Registrant from the holders of such Common Shares. The Super Voting Share is not
convertible nor entitled to receive dividends or distributions upon the liquidation or winding up of the Registrant.
Pursuant to the Support Agreement (defined in
the October 13 Current Report), the Registrant agreed (i) to place certain limitations on its ability to declare dividends, issue additional
securities, reclassify or reorganize its capital stock, and conduct certain transactions outside the ordinary course of business, (ii)
to reserve sufficient unissued Common Shares to allow for the exchange of all Exchangeable Shares, and (iii) not to initiate or attempt
to cause the voluntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of ExchangeCo, until such time as there are no more Exchangeable Shares
not held by the Registrant or its affiliates outstanding.
As part of the acquisition of TrueNorth, the Registrant
has agreed to directly issue to Trustate International Inc. (“Trustate”) 14,000,000 Common Shares of Registrant in exchange
for the compensation due Trustate for its sale of certain patents to TrueNorth following closing.
It should be noted that the Registrant’s
Chairman and CEO, Gary Bartholomew, was an officer and director of TrueNorth until he resigned from such positions in February 2021. Further,
Mr. Bartholomew’s 2,383,334 in TrueNorth were cancelled upon closing of the registrant’s acquisition of TrueNorth and he did
not receive any additional shares of Registrant as a result of the acquisition.
DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS
Except as otherwise indicated by the context,
references in this Report to “we”, “us”, “our”, or the “Company” are to the consolidated
business of Registrant and its subsidiaries, including TrueNorth.
Prior Operations of TrueNorth Quantum
TrueNorth Quantum Inc., was incorporated October
10, 2018, in the Province of Alberta, Canada, and on October 30, 2018, acquired 100% of the shares of TrueNorth CX Inc., a corporation
under the laws of the Province of Ontario. TrueNorth CX Inc. is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of TrueNorth Quantum Inc.
With the acquisition of TrueNorth CX Inc, TrueNorth
acquired the source code for the cryptocurrency exchange and trading platform which will be rewritten to be compatible with the Company’s
proprietary platform called the Northern Shield adding to the existing capability of the platform.
Current Operations of TrueNorth Quantum
History and Organizational
Structure
TrueNorth Quantum Inc. was incorporated October
10, 2018, in the Province of Alberta, Canada, and on October 30, 2018, acquired 100% of the shares of TrueNorth CX Inc., a corporation
under the laws of the Province of Ontario. TrueNorth CX Inc. is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of TrueNorth Quantum Inc.
TrueNorth CX Inc. (formerly 2120315 Ontario Inc.)
was incorporated in Ontario, Canada on November 28, 2006, and was primarily focused on research and development of emerging technologies
and business innovation. The original corporation, 2120315 Ontario Inc was renamed to TrueNorth CX Inc., on February 23, 2018, as the
focus shifted to cryptocurrency trading platform technology. Subsequently, TrueNorth CX Inc. was acquired by TrueNorth Quantum Inc., contributing
the crypto-trading platform to the overall platform strategy of TrueNorth Quantum Inc., called the Northern Shield.
Summary of Current Business
TNQ has developed a highly scalable, institutional-grade
cloud platform called the Northern Shield that enables the rapid build and scale of decentralized applications across many industries.
The Northern Shield is the convergence of Security, Blockchain, AI, and Big Data into a single platform we call Web 3.0. TNQ has started
to work with application development companies to adapt or build their application using the Northern Shield. The Northern Shield is offered
as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering a complex and highly secured and managed system reducing the cost of industry scale application
development for disruption in Healthcare, Fintech, AgTech, Wellness as shown in Figure 1. These industries are transforming to a decentralized
architecture enabling the Northern Shield to disrupt the way business is done today. TNQ has numerous engagements to build applications
using the Northern Shield, allowing for highly secured and insured capability with a global scale running on the blockchain.
Figure 1: Target applications and industry verticals
for the Northern Shield
In addition to offering the Northern Shield as
a PaaS, we offer full application development to the business that has the disruptive idea but needs a strong technical partner to implement
their decentralized vision. This contract software development service is offered on a fixed price basis based on the Statement of Work
mutually agreed to in a services contract.
TNQ may also take an equity stake through the
investment of cash and in-kind for emerging disruptive startups that need the North Shield to take advantage of the current market opportunity.
Start-ups in the industry market space like Healthcare, Medtech, Fintech, AgTech are emerging every day and TNQ will find the most promising
to partner with.
Key Strengths and Strategy for Growth
Reducing the time to market. The upfront investment
and project risk by leveraging the Northern Shield will enable success and the rate of disruption. To build industry-scale applications
using Web 3.0 technologies can be 10’s of millions of dollars and many years to get this reliably to market. By using the Northern
Shield, the application developer can reduce development cost by a factor of 5x, reduce time to market by a factor of 5x, and reduce risks
of managing complexity within the core undying technologies while staying focused on their domain expertise. TNQ becomes the application
builder’s technical partner providing the entire infrastructure for rapid development and deployment.
With the market evolving as fast as it is, developers
cannot be in the development phase for 2 years. They cannot also implement a lightweight minimal viable product (MVP) and then be forced
to throw it away and start again as the application adoption scales and begins to fail. Using the Northern Shield enables the application
MVP to be developed in months, launched in the market at a global scale, and facilitates a managed evolution of functionality and scale
while delivering industry disruption with no downtime.
As TNQ enables rapid deployment on a global scale
with minimal investment we are the business partner, core technology partner to the disruptive business. As such offering the Platform
as a Service, we share in the transaction revenue taking risks alongside our partners if their business doesn't scale or succeed. This
risk is mitigated by speed to market, first-mover advantage, and minimal investment to scale. We expect to diversify the risk of disruption
by working with many companies actively disrupting across multiple industry sectors.
Vendors and Customers
Vendors:
Redoki Inc: (Background IP License): The
Northern Shield was created starting with technology from Redoki Inc. on a core full-stack, microservices, and API technology that has
been enhanced by TNQ to adapt blockchain, AI, quantum-proof security, and company-built applications like Digital Custody and a secured
Blockchain Transaction Execution. We will license the technology from Redoki, called the background IP, whereas the specific North Shield
enhancements and applications are called the foreground IP. Redoki also provides support services to the licensed stack and provides application
design services.
IBM Hybrid Cloud: The Northern Shield will
leverage the IBM Hybrid cloud which integrates public cloud services, private cloud services and on-premises infrastructure and provides
orchestration, management and application portability across all three. The result is a single, unified and flexible distributed computing
environment where an organization can run and scale its traditional or cloud-native workloads on the most appropriate computing model.
EvolutionQ Inc: Consulting Services organization
in the field of quantum computing, quantum cryptography, quantum proofing security, security audit, and algorithmic software development.
EvolutionQ is based out of the University of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing. EvolutionQ is led by world-leading scientists,
Dr. Michele Mosca, Dr. Norbert Lütkenhaus & Dr. David Jao who understands the solutions for cybersecurity now and into the future
when Quantum Computing becomes prevalent.
Carbon Design Inc: Marketing services company
assisting in overall messaging and strategy, web and social media implementation and management.
Customers:
The following is a sample of the clients TNQ will
be servicing once fully operational:
Qanik DX Inc. a MedTech company that is
disrupting the laboratory testing market with a mobile laboratory and at-home mini-Lab measuring blood biomarkers and viruses in saliva.
TNQ has entered into a funding agreement to take an equity stake in Qanik DX and has entered into a non-binding Term Sheet to develop
the Qanik DX Data cloud for patient data, its mobile app, and security infrastructure. AI of which will run on the Northern Shield under
a revenue share licensing agreement. TNQ will operate the platform and manage the ongoing application development for Qanik DX.
Phytonomous Inc. an AgTech company that
has developed a mobile laboratory for hemp and cannabis growers and delivers real-time molecular results as the plant is growing and provides
quality control scanning in real-time for mold, mildew, spores, and chemicals that would nullify their organic certification. All real-time
test data is connected in real-time to the Northern Shield and will deliver insights as the plant grows, is cured and extracted into the
final product. The goal is to deliver pharma-grade quality while preserving the whole plant at the molecular level. TNQ has entered into
a non-binding term sheet to develop the application, license the Northern Shield and provide ongoing application and platform support
Social4orce Inc., a FinTech company that
has developed a product called Human Velocity. This disruptive fintech play decentralizes venture capital investing making everyone a
venture capital investor in early-stage start-up companies. It's called the Bloomberg of Startups, providing real-time data on each start
to be used for making investing decisions. TNQ has entered into a term sheet to develop the application, license the Northern Shield and
provide ongoing application and platform support.
GO Nutraceuticals Inc., a Wellness company
that has developed a novel single-step infusion and extraction process for hemp and marijuana infused with seed oils and botanicals. GO
will offer a wellness app to track patient symptoms against CBDA and or THCA whole plant consumption to create a community of patients
with similar conditions and outcomes. The ability to match molecular composition to health outcomes is the application running on the
Northern Shield using Big Data/AI for outcomes and Blockchain/Security for securing the patient data into a Non Fungible token determining
how the data can be used for research and product development. TNQ has entered into a non-binding term sheet to develop the application,
license the Northern Shield and provide ongoing application and platform support
TNQ is in discussions with many application development
companies and intends to select the applications that have the greatest scaling and revenue opportunity.
Industry Overview
Decentralized technology as a concept continues
to gain momentum, fueled by the growth of blockchain technology in the cryptocurrency and decentralized finance industries. Following
growth in the past year in the financial sectors other industries are beginning to see early adoption of this technology to fuel growth
and innovation, however widespread adoption has yet to take hold. While Gartner predicted in 2019 that 60% of CIOs expected some adoption
of blockchain by 2022, enterprise funding for blockchain lagged versus other enterprise applications in 2019 and 2020. Several factors
prevent widespread adoption of blockchain by enterprise IT organizations, including:
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Development time and investment is higher than traditional infrastructure due to the decentralized nature
of the technology, the constantly evolving standards for building applications, and the lack of technology resources available to execute.
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Industry applications of decentralized technology require not only industry domain knowledge, but also
the technical capabilities required to build a decentralized foundation, including data management, data processing, business protocols,
and security protections.
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Scaling and upgrading technology, once built, requires high levels of maintenance to ensure backwards
compatibility as the technology advances and adds new features.
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Regulatory and privacy policies vary globally and are continually evolving to address new technology challenges
(over 100 countries have privacy laws in place in 2021), creating constant backlog and compliance work for global application developers.
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Security and crypto crime threats such as ransomware, malware require continual monitoring and maintenance
to prevent data breaches or disruption of business.
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Quantum computers are 5 to 10 years away and pose a huge threat to the current security systems and IT
infrastructures.
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Without addressing the multiple barriers to entry
innovation in transactionally dependent industries, new technology solutions from start-ups and enterprises alike are unlikely to. The
market need for a comprehensive, flexible platform that provides a layer of technology to address these needs becomes apparent.
Competition and Market Share
Current technology service providers in the decentralized
space are only able to satisfactorily address one or two of the barriers to entry, while traditional Platform-as-a-Service providers have
not invested in supporting decentralized application development at scale. Competitors may emerge as cryptocurrency and financial exchange
technology companies expand capabilities to accommodate a variety of transactional use cases, data sources and business protocols. Currently,
TNQ’s primary competitors include:
In-house development teams - Due to the immaturity
of the decentralized and distributed ledger technology standards, most start-up innovators looking to create disruptive applications must
build the underlying infrastructure and connective technology between database providers, AI tools, transaction processing using in-house
or temporarily outsourced teams of developers. This effort is time consuming and requires a wide breadth of expertise among the development
team to address security, business rules, scalability, etc., issues that may arise.
Blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) providers –Blockchain
platforms are emerging platforms and are being used for generalized distributed value exchange. While most experts still have loosely
defined criteria for this category of technology providers, Gartner began to define two emerging provider categories that will enable
more widespread adoption of blockchain in the enterprise, these categories are defined as trusted integration brokers and blockchain abstraction
platforms. Both categories provide a middleware layer to “shield enterprise users from the backend technical complexity of blockchain.”
Source: Gartner
(https://blogs.gartner.com/avivah-litan/2021/01/13/3-blockbuster-blockchain-trends-in-2021/)
Marketing
Our marketing efforts will focus on strategic
customer acquisition and co-marketing in our growth target segments: Fintech (banking, trading, ePayments), Healthcare, Medtech, and Agtech.
We have initial customer partnerships in each of these industries, which will provide a foundation for demonstrating the advantages and
possibilities for innovation in these sectors.
Marketing campaigns will target start-ups and
innovators in key sectors who are seeking technology partners to help navigate the regulatory and technical barriers which are currently
slowing the pace of innovation in these industries. TrueNorth Quantum will position itself as the technology platform that speeds innovation,
secures data and transactions, and enables speed to market for industry innovators.
Research and Development
Technology Overview:
The technology underpinning the Northern Shield,
(the “platform”) is a mature architecture that implements a framework with a number of advanced characteristics. Secure distributed
microservices are used with an advanced data protection and messaging system that provides a fundamental platform capability allowing
for secure distributed transactions governed by unified and agreed upon policies, workflows, contracts, governance, audit, and authorization
frameworks.
Microservice Approach:
The system is composed of high-level domain specific
microservices that communicate with high level goal-oriented instructions. They are in turn supported by progressively lower level microservices,
eventually terminating with a microservice bridge to a 3rd party API. The communications model between these microservices is known as
a ‘fifth-generation language’ where the system is instructed to reach a goal, and can work to solve that goal without being
specifically programmed to do it. By encoding domain expertise at the top level of the microservice model a layer of conceptual orchestration
is achieved whereby each microservice ‘expert’ builds a team of peer experts, and under each expert are lower level experts,
eventually reaching more traditional low-level microservices. This approach allows for modeling complex business rules in ways that are
understandable, testable, auditable, and verifiable. This is not the approach taken by most API’s, which are uniformly low-level
with audit trails that do not clearly resemble the actual operation being performed. Indeed, many ‘smart contracts’ in emerging
crypto currencies are expressed as esoteric machine language whose correct operation and auditability is limited to a very small set of
experts.
Distributed Computing, Distributed Transactions
The platform implements a distributed computing
and processing model that has been designed to lower two risks: participant reliability and participant compromise. In any multi-party
transaction a participant might be unreliable and fail. Compensating transactions are required for recovery and roll-back. A participant’s
device might be compromised where an adversary might be able to observe and modify everything that is in memory, potentially stealing
secrets, modifying data, or injecting operations. A key aspect of the system design is enabling secure transactions on untrusted or potentially
compromised devices. Since, in theory, any single device might be unreliable or compromised, operations may need to be performed that
do not reveal all secret information to a single device. If a particular transaction's risk requires being secure even if one device is
compromised, multiple devices can be used as a group to facilitate a transaction with no single point of failure or disclosure being mathematically
possible. For some transactions, where risk is low and throughput is high 1 to 3 nodes may be used. If higher levels of assurance are
required, more nodes collectively perform the operation. This is akin to fault-tolerant disk arrays, but applied to performing operations
on information on n > 1 nodes for greater assurance.
Data Management
Most contemporary applications today enforce security
policies at API points, and those points are typically mostly server-side. The microservice nature of the TrueNorth Quantum framework
implements this as well as both message and data security. Each data object is applied with security labels that enforce security policies.
Operations like reading, or modifying an object can only be performed by those possessing the appropriate cryptographic keys as each information
object and message in the system is end-to-end encrypted at the object level (not just the stream level). Current applications typically
only encrypt data at the stream level, meaning as soon as sensitive data is processed by an API it is decrypted and available. Operations
performed on information are immutable, meaning each modification of information creates a new immutable object with a full private blockchain
that can trace its origins. To lower time to market without compromising security, scalability and governance the platform provides a
set of mature microservices currently in use by several governments and large financial organizations across the world as shown in Figure
2.
API Services
The framework implementation is ‘isomorphic’
in that the API’s and code that runs server-side is the same that runs in client web browsers and mobile devices. In other words,
the mobile and web clients are not ‘watered down’ view engines, but implement the entire transactional security model. An
isometric approach enables lower cost testing and formal validation as well as empowering devices to participate in more complex peer-to-peer
(e.g. mobile to mobile) transactions that have the full benefits and assurances that the framework provides. Additionally, specific API
services adapters encapsulate 3rd party API’s and facilitate policy-based, audited access. All interchanges between 3rd party API’s
is a potential risk point and the system is designed to monitor the data flows and update a real-time risk model for all access for multiple
perspectives ranging from the call, the transaction, the identities / participants, regulatory policies, etc… The ability to enforce,
in real time, dynamic behavior-based policies based on real-time risk models is designed to increase the observability and assurances
of all parties involved in a transaction.
TrueNorth Quantum Services
TNQ builds on this advanced architecture to offer
a number of microservice ‘experts’ in areas of market-analysis, risk analysis, clearing (settlement), trade planning and coordination,
liquidity, and execution.
Figure2: Example North Shield architecture
and Blockchain Trade execution application built using the Northern Shield
All these services leverage common identity, authorization,
and security that can enforce complex business rules and governance processes on data as it crosses different devices and trust domains.
Why build on a Framework:
A common approach to modern application development
is to have teams with different skill sets implement different layers of an application. Data engineers focus on scalable back-end databases,
application engineers implement scalable APIs, and front-end engineers implement web and mobile UI. Across all these layers different
technologies are used but common across them are integrity, security, and regulatory requirements that must be consistently applied across
the application domain.
When new applications are developed the initial
decisions of overall system architecture and technology stacks affect the long-term scalability, security, and ultimately the business
viability of the implementation. Many projects start with a goal to deliver a rapid time to market and focus on a goal on a minimum viable
product (“MVP”). An MVP can introduce serious compromises in scalability, security, and maintainability. Any failures in these
errors can represent insurmountable challenges to the survivability of an organization. In many cases, an MVP could not be adopted by
a large-scale enterprise like a financial institution due to the many deficiencies.
The above pattern is likely familiar to anyone
investing in new software projects. There comes a point where the MVP / version 1.0 of products becomes a risk requiring a second, often
larger, investment in 'reworking' the system with 'lessons learned'.
What if large enterprise systems could skip this
phase and not have to be reworked? What if globally distributed systems could be secure, scalable, and regulatory optimized from day one?
What if the large institution can prototype new decentralized applications with minimal risk and participate in the disruption verse being
disrupted?
Northern Shield Platform Architecture
In 1996 a group of investors and software entrepreneurs
working on software systems with the Department of Defense began developing a next-generation systems architecture for highly distributed,
secure, scalable, and fault-tolerant mission-critical systems. The intent of the team was to build a set of best-in-class re-usable application
building blocks and patterns that enable rapid time-to-market without the usual compromises in quality, security, and governance. Since
then, numerous successful businesses have benefited from leveraging the architecture and subsequent implementations and refinements of
this architecture have produced a mature enterprise platform for the rapid deployment of highly scalable and trustable systems.
Some innovations include:
- secure distributed microservices 25 years before
they were commercially popularized
- data-responsive systems which react to changes
in information 15 years before
- distributed objects, transactions, consensus,
and state management
- unified security protections that travel with
the data it protects
The Northern Shield, instead of focusing on data
tiers, computer tiers, and presentation layers instead is architected around protecting the data and operations that can be performed
on the data. Core identity, session, authorization, and transactional services mediate all access to data and a private blockchain implements
an audit record of all operations on data across its lifecycle.
Additional mature services have emerged over the
last decade that encompass and accelerate large-scale data analytics, visualization, and workflow -- all necessary components of modern
data-centric architectures.
The platform provides system application architects
and domain experts with a means to design systems to a high standard, shaving potentially years and millions of dollars of costs off development.
Intellectual Property and Patents
The Northern Shield is the core intellectual property
of the Company. Through the unrestricted license of the background IP from Redoki, the Northern Shield was developed to integrate the
blockchains, quantum-proof security, blockchain transaction execution, and digital custody. The Company is exploring patent opportunities
in quantum-proof algorithms and decentralized computing.
The Company has entered into an agreement to acquire
two issued patents owned by TruState International Inc., a Barbados holding company. Such patents are security software patents issued
by the USA Patent and Trademark office and provide patent protection for secured private browsing one to one and one to many servers.
Fiscal Year
Upon Closing, TNQ changed its fiscal year end from October 31 to December
31 to match URYL.
Employees
The Company has no employees and due to COVID
measures is working strictly with contractors and consultants. All external engagements are secured with agreements governing confidentiality
and proprietary rights. Once back to work authorizations are granted and the Company feels it’s safe to gather, it will consider
an office and hiring full-time staff.
Government Regulation
In the USA and other countries globally, governmental
regulation is evolving daily and could represent a risk to the business model of TNQ, or conversely improve the regulations to speed adoption
of decentralized applications. Recently in the USA, the Biden administration has been very active in increasing regulation around cryptocurrency
with the following agencies invoking change or commenting:
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation officially
published its request for information about how banks are using digital assets and what the federal regulator could do to assist entities.
New Acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael
Hsu announced he had ordered his staff to review all pending matters and interpretive guidance issued under the Trump administration (read:
former Acting Comptroller Brian Brooks) before revealing in a congressional hearing the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the
Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation were discussing a potential interagency group to examine crypto policy.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell reiterated
the Fed’s first research paper about a digital dollar would be published this summer, and he believes a U.S. central bank digital
currency should prioritize consumer privacy and protection. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler warned that bad actors
in crypto should prepare for enforcement actions.
It is expected that significant oversight will
be enacted in 2021 and 2022 which will be a call for better security, privacy, consumer protection, transparency and reporting all of
which is core functionality of the Northern Shield Platform. The institutionalization of decentralized applications will create a barrier
of entry for minimal viable products, requiring significant investment in the technology stack, highly specialized security and encryption
engineers and capital investment. Delivering this as a Platform as a Service will accelerate the adoption of the TNQ platform.
Legal Proceedings
We are currently not a party to any material legal
or administrative proceedings. We may from time to time be subject to various legal or administrative claims and proceedings arising in
the ordinary course of business. Litigation or any other legal or administrative proceeding, regardless of the outcome, is likely to result
in substantial cost and diversion of our resources, including our management’s time and attention.
RISK FACTORS
As a smaller reporting company, we are not required
to provide this information.
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OR
PLAN OF OPERATION
Forward Looking Statements
The following discussion of
TrueNorth’s financial condition and results of operations is based upon and should be read in conjunction with TrueNorth’s
consolidated financial statements and their related notes included in this Report. This report contains forward-looking statements. Generally,
the words “believes”, “anticipates”, “may”, “will”, “should”, “expect”,
“intend”, “estimate”, “continue” and similar expressions or the negative thereof or comparable terminology
are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Such statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, including the matters
set forth in this report or other reports or documents we file with the SEC from time to time, which could cause actual results or outcomes
to differ materially from those projected. Undue reliance should not be placed on these forward-looking statements which speak only as
of the date hereof. We undertake no obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
Business Overview
TrueNorth Quantum Inc. has developed a highly
scalable, institutional-grade cloud platform called the Northern Shield that enables the rapid build and scale of decentralized applications
across many industries. The Northern Shield is the convergence of Security, Blockchain, AI, and Big Data into a single platform we call
Web 3.0. TNQ has started to work with application development companies to adapt or build their application using the Northern Shield.
The Northern Shield is offered as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering a complex and highly secured and managed system reducing the
cost of industry scale application development for disruption in Healthcare, Fintech, AgTech, Wellness as shown in Figure 1. These industries
are transforming to a decentralized architecture enabled by the Northern Shield to disrupt the way business is done today. TNQ has numerous
engagements to build applications using the Northern Shield, allowing for highly secured and insured capability with a global scale running
on the blockchain.
Figure 1: Target applications and industry verticals
for the Northern Shield
In addition to offering the Northern Shield as
a PaaS, we offer full application development to the business that has the disruptive idea but needs a strong technical partner to implement
their decentralized vision. This contract software development service is offered on a fixed price basis based on the Statement of Work
mutually agreed to in a services contract.
TNQ may also take an equity stake through the
investment of cash and in-kind for emerging disruptive startups that need the North Shield to take advantage of the current market opportunity.
Start-ups in the industry market space like Healthcare, Medtech, Fintech, AgTech are emerging every day and TNQ will find the most promising
to partner with.
Significant Accounting Policies
TrueNorth prepares its financial
statement in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States, which requires TrueNorth to make estimates
and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of its assets and liabilities, to disclose contingent assets and liabilities on the date
of the financial statements, and to disclose the reported amounts of revenues and expenses incurred during the financial reporting period.
TrueNorth continues to evaluate these estimates and assumptions that it believes to be reasonable under the circumstances. TrueNorth relies
on these evaluations as the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent
from other sources. Since the use of estimates is an integral component of the financial reporting process, actual results could differ
from those estimates. Some of TrueNorth’s accounting policies require higher degrees of judgment than other in their application.
This section should be read
together with the Summary of Significant Accounting Policies included as Note [2] to TrueNorth’s consolidated financial statements
included herein.
Results of Operations
Comparison of the three months ended July 31,
2021 and July 31, 2020
The following table provides certain selected financial
information for the periods presented:
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Three months ended
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July 31,
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2021
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2020
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Changes
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Operating expenses
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Selling, general and administrative
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$
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25,685
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168
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$
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25,517
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Professional fees
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78,970
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–
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78,970
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Total Operating expenses
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104,655
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168
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104,487
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Other expenses
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$
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(3,294
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$
|
–
|
|
|
$
|
(3,294
|
)
|
Net Loss
|
|
$
|
(107,949
|
)
|
|
$
|
(168
|
)
|
|
$
|
(107,781
|
)
|
Net loss for the three months ended July 31, 2021
increased by approximately $107,781 to $107,949 as compared to $168 for the nine months ended July 31, 2020 due to an increase in operating
expenses and other expenses.
Operating expenses for the three months ended
July 31, 2021 increased by $104,487 compared to the three months ended July 31, 2020 attributed to the increase in legal fees, auditing
fees, accounting fees, consulting fees and marketing cost.
Other expenses for the three months ended July
31, 2021 was comprised primarily of interest expense on the convertible notes and promissory notes.
Comparison of the nine months ended July 31,
2021 and July 31, 2020
The following table provides certain selected financial
information for the periods presented:
|
|
Nine months ended
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
July 31,
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2021
|
|
|
2020
|
|
|
Changes
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Operating expenses
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Selling, general and administrative
|
|
$
|
31,707
|
|
|
|
892
|
|
|
$
|
30,815
|
|
Professional fees
|
|
|
95,748
|
|
|
|
–
|
|
|
|
95,748
|
|
Total Operating expenses
|
|
|
127,455
|
|
|
|
892
|
|
|
|
126,563
|
|
Other expenses
|
|
$
|
4,668
|
|
|
$
|
–
|
|
|
$
|
4,668
|
|
Net Loss
|
|
$
|
(132,123
|
)
|
|
$
|
(892
|
)
|
|
$
|
(131,231
|
)
|
Net loss for the nine months ended July 30, 2021
increased by $131,231 to $132,123 as compared to $892 for the nine months ended July 31, 2020 due to an increase in operating expenses
and other expenses.
Operating expenses for the nine months ended July
31, 2021 increased by $126,563 compared to the nine months ended July 31, 2020 attributed to the increase in legal fees, auditing fees,
accounting fees, consulting fees and marketing cost.
Other expenses for the nine months ended July
31, 2021 was comprised primarily of interest expense on the convertible notes and promissory notes.
Comparison of year ended October 31, 2020
to year ended October 31, 2019
The following table provides certain selected
financial information for the periods presented:
|
|
Year ended
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
October 31,
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2020
|
|
|
2019
|
|
|
Changes
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Operating expenses
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Selling, general and administrative
|
|
$
|
5,942
|
|
|
$
|
96,121
|
|
|
$
|
(90,179
|
)
|
Professional fees
|
|
|
–
|
|
|
|
17,674
|
|
|
|
(17,674
|
)
|
Management consulting fees - related party
|
|
|
–
|
|
|
|
30,030
|
|
|
|
(30,030
|
)
|
Research and development
|
|
|
–
|
|
|
|
36,417
|
|
|
|
(36,417
|
)
|
Total Operating expenses
|
|
|
5,942
|
|
|
|
180,243
|
|
|
|
(174,301
|
)
|
Net Loss
|
|
$
|
(5,942
|
)
|
|
$
|
(180,243
|
)
|
|
$
|
174,301
|
|
Net loss for the year ended October 31, 2020 decreased
by approximately 97% to $5,942 as compared to $180,243 for the year ended October 31, 2019 due to a decrease in operating expenses.
Operating expenses for the year ended October
31, 2020 decreased by $174,301 compared to the year ended October 31, 2019 mainly due to the decrease in selling, general and administrative,
research and development, management consulting fees and professional fees. The decline in operations in 2020 was impacted by Covid-19
which halted operational activities.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
The following table provides selected financial
data about us as of July 31, 2021, October 31, 2020 and October 31, 2019.
|
|
July 31,
|
|
|
October 31,
|
|
|
October 31,
|
|
|
|
2021
|
|
|
2020
|
|
|
2019
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash
|
|
$
|
119
|
|
|
$
|
251
|
|
|
$
|
112
|
|
Current Assets
|
|
$
|
31,083
|
|
|
$
|
36,442
|
|
|
$
|
10,142
|
|
Current Liabilities
|
|
$
|
364,898
|
|
|
$
|
145,118
|
|
|
$
|
114,067
|
|
Working Capital Deficiency
|
|
$
|
(333,815
|
)
|
|
$
|
(108,676
|
)
|
|
$
|
(103,925
|
)
|
As of July 31, 2021, working capital deficiency
increased to $333,815 from $108,676 as of October 31, 2020 due to an increase in current liabilities and a decrease in current assets.
The increase in current liabilities was mainly due to an increase in convertible notes payable of $215,000 and an increase in promissory
notes payable of $10,818. The decrease in current assets was due to a decrease in prepaid expense and deposits.
As of October 31, 2020, working capital deficiency
increased to $108,676 from $103,925 as of October 31, 2019 due to an increase in current liabilities. The increase in current liabilities
was mainly due to an increase in promissory notes payable of $26,280 (CAD35,000).
Our stockholders’ deficit increased to $235,815
as of July 31, 2021 from $108,676 as of October 31, 2020 and from $103,925 as of October 31, 2019.
Accumulated deficit increased to $1,071,548 as
of July 31, 2021 from $939,425 as of October 31, 2020 and from $933,483 as of October 31, 2019.
Cash Flow
|
|
Nine months ended
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
July 31,
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2021
|
|
|
2020
|
|
|
Changes
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash flows used in operating activities
|
|
$
|
(138,549
|
)
|
|
$
|
(52
|
)
|
|
$
|
(138,497
|
)
|
Cash flows used in investing activities
|
|
$
|
(98,000
|
)
|
|
$
|
–
|
|
|
$
|
(98,000
|
)
|
Cash flows provided by financing activities
|
|
$
|
223,974
|
|
|
$
|
–
|
|
|
$
|
223,974
|
|
Effects on changes in foreign exchange rate
|
|
$
|
12,443
|
|
|
$
|
(2
|
)
|
|
$
|
12,445
|
|
Net Changes in Cash
|
|
$
|
(132
|
)
|
|
$
|
(54
|
)
|
|
$
|
(78
|
)
|
|
|
Year ended
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
October 31,
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2020
|
|
|
2019
|
|
|
Changes
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash flows used in operating activities
|
|
$
|
(25,960
|
)
|
|
$
|
(113,982
|
)
|
|
$
|
88,022
|
|
Cash flows used in investing activities
|
|
$
|
–
|
|
|
$
|
–
|
|
|
$
|
–
|
|
Cash flows provided by financing activities
|
|
$
|
26,100
|
|
|
$
|
114,530
|
|
|
$
|
(88,430
|
)
|
Effects on changes in foreign exchange rate
|
|
$
|
(1
|
)
|
|
$
|
(560
|
)
|
|
$
|
559
|
|
Net Changes in Cash
|
|
$
|
139
|
|
|
$
|
(12
|
)
|
|
$
|
151
|
|
Cash Flow from Operating Activities
For the nine months ended July 31, 2021, net cash
used in operating activities was $138,549 compared to $52 for the nine months ended July 31, 2020.
Cash flows used in operating activities for the
nine months ended July 31, 2021 of $138,549 was comprised of a net loss of $132,123, which was increased by net change in non-cash operating
working capital of $6,426. Cash flows used in operating activities for the nine months ended July 31, 2020 of $52 was comprised of a net
loss of $892, which was decreased by net change in non-cash operating working capital of $840.
For the year ended October 31, 2020, net cash
used in operating activities was $25,960 compared to $113,982 for the year ended October 31, 2019.
Cash flows used in operating activities for the
year ended October 31, 2020 of $25,960 was comprised of a net loss of $5,942, which was increased by net change in non-cash operating
working capital of 20,019. Cash flows used in operating activities for the year ended October 31, 2019 of $113,982 was comprised of a
net loss of $180,243, which was decreased by net change in non-cash operating working capital of $66,261.
Cash Flows from Investing Activities
For the nine months ended July 31, 2021 and July
31, 2020, net cash used in investing activities was $98,000 and $nil, respectively.
For the nine months ended July 31, 2021, we made
equity investments in an unrelated corporation of $98,000 which includes 98,000 units. Each unit consist of one common share and one transferable
common share purchase warrant that entitle for purchasing an additional common share at $2 per warrant shares for a term of two years.
We did not have any investing activities during
the year ended October 31, 2020 and 2019.
Cash Flows from Financing Activities
We have financed our operations primarily from
issuance of convertible notes and promissory notes, issuances of common stock and advances from third parties.
For the nine months ended July 31, 2021 and July
31, 2020, net cash provided by financing activities was $223,974 and $nil, respectively. For the nine months ended July 31, 2021, we had
proceeds from issuance of convertible notes of $215,000 and proceeds from issuance of promissory notes of $8,974.
For the year ended October 31, 2020, net cash
provided by financing activities was $26,100 from proceeds of a promissory. For the year ended October 31, 2019, net cash provided by
financing activities was $114,530 from issuance of common shares.
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
The discussion and analysis of our financial condition
and results of operations are based upon our financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with GAAP. Preparing financial
statements requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenue, and
expenses. These estimates and assumptions are affected by management’s application of accounting policies. We believe that understanding
the basis and nature of the estimates and assumptions involved with the following aspects of our financial statements is critical to an
understanding of our financial statements.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of financial statements in conformity
with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure
of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements. The estimates and judgments will also affect the reported
amounts for certain revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from these good faith estimates and
judgments.
Foreign Currency Translations
The Company’s functional currency is in
Canadian dollars (“CAD”). All transactions are translated into U.S. dollars in accordance with ASC 830-30, “Translation
of Financial Statements,” as follows:
|
1)
|
Monetary assets and liabilities at the rate of exchange in effect at the balance sheet date.
|
|
2)
|
Equity at historical rates.
|
|
3)
|
Revenue and expense items at the average rate of exchange prevailing during the period.
|
Adjustments arising from such translations are
deferred until realization and are included as a separate component of stockholders’ equity as a component of comprehensive income
or loss. Therefore, translation adjustments are not included in determining net income (loss) but reported as other comprehensive income
(loss). Gains and losses from foreign currency transactions are included in earnings in the period of settlement.
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
We do not have any outstanding derivative financial
instruments, off-balance sheet guarantees, interest rate swap transactions or foreign currency forward contracts. Furthermore, we do not
have any retained or contingent interest in assets transferred to an unconsolidated entity that serves as credit, liquidity or market
risk support to such entity. We do not have any variable interest in an unconsolidated entity that provides financing, liquidity, market
risk or credit support to us or that engages in leasing, hedging or research and development services with us.
DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTIES
The Company has been granted office space from
its largest shareholder, CyberNorth Ventures Inc, at 2 Campbell Drive, Suite 307C, Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada L9P 1H6. There is no lease
for this space and the Company does not pay rent. The Company’s primary office address in the U.S. is 5428 South Regal Street #30954,
Spokane, WA 99223-8079, for which it does not have a lease or pay rent. Because most services of the Company can be performed remotely,
the Company believes its two spaces are currently sufficient for its operations.
SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS
AND MANAGEMENT
The following table sets forth each person known
by us as of October 22, 2021 to be the beneficial owner of five (5%) percent or more of our Common Stock, all directors individually and
all directors and officers as a group as of the date of this Report, after giving effect to the exchange and the change in control.
Except as otherwise indicated and under applicable
community property laws, we believe that the beneficial owners of our common stock listed below have sole voting and investment power
with respect to the shares shown. Unless stated otherwise, the business address for these shareholders is 2 Campbell Drive, Suite 307C,
Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada L9P 1H6.
Name
|
|
Title
|
|
Number of Common
Shares
|
|
|
% of Common Shares
|
|
|
Number of Series A Preferred Shares
|
|
|
% of Series A Preferred Shares
|
|
|
% of
Eligible Votes1
|
|
|
Number of Warrants currently exercisable or exercisable in the next 60 days
|
|
Gary Bartholomew 2
|
|
CEO, Chairman
|
|
|
109,423,767
|
|
|
|
36.84
|
%
|
|
|
0
|
|
|
|
0
|
%
|
|
|
36.84
|
%
|
|
|
0
|
|
Witold Ostrenko
|
|
Director
|
|
|
0
|
|
|
|
0
|
%
|
|
|
0
|
|
|
|
0
|
%
|
|
|
0
|
%
|
|
|
0
|
|
Brad Herr
|
|
CFO
|
|
|
0
|
|
|
|
0
|
%
|
|
|
0
|
|
|
|
0
|
%
|
|
|
0
|
%
|
|
|
0
|
|
All officers and directors as a group [3 persons]
|
|
|
|
|
109,423,767
|
|
|
|
36.84
|
%
|
|
|
0
|
|
|
|
0
|
%
|
|
|
36.84
|
%
|
|
|
0
|
|
TSX Trust Co.3
|
|
Shareholder
|
|
|
0
|
|
|
|
0
|
%
|
|
|
1
|
|
|
|
100
|
%
|
|
|
49.15
|
%
|
|
|
0
|
|
Terry Yuck4
|
|
Shareholder
|
|
|
25,200,000
|
|
|
|
8.50
|
%
|
|
|
0
|
|
|
|
0
|
%
|
|
|
8.50
|
%
|
|
|
|
|
(1)
|
Applicable percentage of ownership is based on
151,043,725 shares of our Common Stock outstanding as of October 22, 2021, together with securities exercisable or convertible into shares
of Common Shares within sixty (60) days of the date of this Report, which includes shares exchangeable for the Exchangeable Shares and
totals 145,977,725 shares, for an aggregate of 297,021,277 shares/votes on a fully diluted basis.
As of October 22, 2021, the Super Voting Share
was entitled to approximately 145,977,725 votes. Beneficial ownership is determined in accordance with the rules of the SEC and generally
includes voting or investment power with respect to securities. Shares of Common Stock are deemed to be beneficially owned by the person
holding such securities for the purpose of computing the percentage of ownership of such person, but are not treated as outstanding for
the purpose of computing the percentage ownership of any other person. Note that affiliates are subject to Rule 144 and Insider trading
regulations - percentage computation is for form purposes only.
|
|
|
(2)
|
Gary Bartholomew holds his shares through CyberNorth Ventures Inc., which he wholly owns. Mr. Bartholomew currently holds approximately 72.45% of the Common Shares now outstanding, before accounting for exchange of the Exchangeable Shares for Common Shares of the Registrant; however, his voting control remains at approximately 36.84% due to the Super Voting Share. Note, family members of Mr. Bartholomew beneficially own approximately 18,106,676 additional Common Shares of the Company.
|
|
|
(3)
|
The Trustee currently holds approximately 49.15% of the votes of the Registrant; however, such voting power will be decreased as individuals holding Exchangeable Shares exchange for Common Shares of the Company, which timing and amount of such exchanges cannot be predicted by the Company.
|
|
|
(4)
|
Terry Yuck beneficially holds 25,200,000 common shares of the Company via his ownership of 25,200,000 Exchangeable Shares, should Mr. yuck exchange such Exchangeable Shares. 1,866,662 of such Exchangeable Shares are held by Bayside Management Corporation, which is controlled by Mr. Yuck.
|
DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS, PROMOTERS AND
CONTROL PERSONS
Set forth below are the names of the Company’s
directors and officers, their business experience during the last five (5) years, their ages and all positions and offices that they hold
with the Company.
Name
|
|
Age
|
|
Position(s)
|
|
Term
|
Gary Bartholomew
|
|
62
|
|
CEO and Chairman of the Board
|
|
April 7, 2021 - Present
|
Brad Herr
|
|
67
|
|
CFO
|
|
October 22, 2021 - Present
|
Witold Ostrenko
|
|
74
|
|
Independent Director
|
|
October 22, 2021 - Present
|
Family Relationships
There are no family relationships between or among
the members of the Board of Directors or other executives.
Biographies
Each of the officers and directors set forth below
been appointed to serve the Company in their respective capacities.
Gary Bartholomew –
CEO and Chairman of the Board of URYL and TNQ
Gary has built 12 technology
companies (5 public and 7 private) creating over $1.5B in market cap, raised over $250 million in equity capital, managed over $3 billion
in assets and now is Fund Manager for a global asset management platform of venture capital and structured finance based in Toronto and
Waterloo Ontario as well as Cayman. Gary is currently Chairman of four emerging technology companies, public and private.
Gary serves as an officer
and/or Chairman/Executive Chairman of several entities: SponsorsOne Inc. (since 2006, Executive Chairman); Qanik DX Inc. (since 2018,
Chairman and Interim CTO); TrueNorth Quantum Inc. (since 2018, Chairman and CTO); CyberNorth Ventures Inc. (since 1995, President); GO
Nutraceuticals Inc. (since 2018, Chairman); Social4orce Inc. (since 2017, Chairman and CEO); and Phytonomous Inc. (since 2021; Chairman).
He was also Executive Chairman of Open Source Health Inc. from 2013 through 2018. Gary received a BSc in Physics and Engineering from
the University of Waterloo (Canada) in 1983. In 2001 he was the Founding Advisor of the Master of Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology
program, University of Waterloo, Faculty of Engineering. In 2012 he was the Founding Advisor, Undergraduate and Masters Degrees, School
of Global Business and Digital Arts., University of Waterloo, Faculty of Arts.
Brad Herr –
CFO of URYL and TNQ
Brad Herr has served
as the Managing Member of Nexit Opportunities LLC since April 2014, CFO of MJ Harvest (OTCQB: MJHI) since March 2018, and CFO and director
of Cannabis Sativa, Inc. (OTCQB: CBDS) since January 2020. Mr. Herr also served as CFO of SponsorsOne, Inc. (OTC: SPONF) from April 2018
to May 2019. MJ Harvest, Inc. acquires and markets products and technologies that are designed to benefit growers and processors in the
horticultural and agricultural industries. Cannabis Sativa, Inc.’s primary operations include providing telemedicine online referral
services for customers desiring medical marijuana cards in states where medical marijuana has been legalized. SponsorsOne, Inc. is a company
that provides digital marketing solutions that connect brands and customers.
Witold (Wit) Ostrenko
– Director of URYL and TNQ
Witold (Wit) Ostrenko is President and Founder
of Celerity Investments, Inc., which provides consulting on financial, planning, fundraising, and investments of most notably, not-for-profit
large institutions. He is President and Founder of Non-Prophets, Inc., a not for profit 501c.3 corporation dedicated to eliminating poverty
among disadvantaged groups; wounded veterans, native American Indians in rehabilitation, single mothers, women college graduates, and
African American men 18 years and older to learn to be self-sufficient. Mr. Ostrenko is also the Organizer of World Cafe, helping nonprofit
museums to engage with their board of directors, staff, and communities through a conversation technique to plan, evaluate, and execute
museum work. Mr. Ostrenko is a director of SponsorsOne, Inc. (OTC: SPONF), a company that provides digital marketing solutions that connect
brands and customers.
From 1987 to 2014, Mr.
Ostrenko was President and CEO of MOSI Science Center, Inc., responsible for board development, fundraising, long-range and strategic
planning. He has accumulated and developed $120 million-dollar capital including a 73-acre site and 318,000 square feet of facilities.
He has managed and created $100 million-dollar operating activities including (A) Science Center, (B) Center of Learning, (C) Advent Hospital
IMAX Theater, (D) Children’s Science Center- Kids In Charge!, (E) Science Idea Zone, (F) Pre-School and Middle-Grade School, (G)
Planetarium, (H) NASA Lunar Colony, and (I) Laboratories, Weather Simulators, and Classrooms.
Legal Proceedings
None of the members of the Board of Directors
or other executives has been involved in any bankruptcy proceedings, criminal proceedings, any proceeding involving any possibility of
enjoining or suspending members of our Board of Directors or other executives from engaging in any business, securities or banking activities,
and have not been found to have violated, nor been accused of having violated, any federal or state securities or commodities laws.
EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
The following table sets forth compensation information
for services rendered by certain of our former executive officers prior to the Exchange in all capacities during the last two (2) completed
fiscal years (ended December 31, 2020 and 2019). The following information includes the U.S. dollar value of base salaries, bonus awards,
the number of stock options granted and certain other compensation, if any, whether paid or deferred.
Summary Compensation Table
Name and Principal Position
|
|
Year
|
|
|
Salary
($)
|
|
|
Bonus
($)
|
|
|
Option
Awards
($)
|
|
|
All Other
Compensation
($)
|
|
|
Total
($)
|
|
Teoh Kooi Sooi
Former Director, Chief Executive Officer,
|
|
|
2019
|
|
|
|
60,000
|
|
|
|
0
|
|
|
|
0
|
|
|
|
0
|
|
|
|
60,000
|
|
Principal Financial Officer and Treasurer
|
|
|
2020
|
|
|
|
18,101
|
|
|
|
0
|
|
|
|
0
|
|
|
|
729
|
|
|
|
18,830
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jaya C Rajamanickam
|
|
|
2019
|
|
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Former President
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2020
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0
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0
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Feliana Binti Johny
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2019
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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Former Secretary
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2020
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0
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0
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0
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David Edwin Evans
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2019
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0
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0
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0
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0
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Former Chief Operating Officer
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2020
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0
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0
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0
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0
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The
Registrant’s former Board of Directors, Li Gongming, Teoh Kooi Sooi and Soh Khay Wee resigned on April 7, 2021. On the same day,
Teoh Kooi Sooi resigned from the roles of Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of the Registrant, David Edwin
Evans resigned from the role of Chief Operation Officer of the Company, Liao Lin resigned from the role of Chief Sales Officer of the
Company, Jaya C Rajamanickam resigned from the role of President of the Company while Feliana Binti Johny resigned from the role of Secretary
of the Company.
On April 7, 2021, Mr.
Gary Bartholomew was appointed as the Director, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, President, Secretary, Treasurer of the
Company. On October 22, 2021, Brad Herr was appointed as the Company’s CFO and Witold (Wit) Ostrenko was appointed as an independent
director of the Company. No compensation has yet been paid to any of these individuals.
The Registrant currently
has no equity awards outstanding. Nonetheless, the Registrant did approve an incentive stock option plan (“ISO Plan”) and
a deferred stock unit plan (“DSU Plan”) on October 4, 2021. The descriptions of the ISO Plan and DSU Plan from the Registrant’s
Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on October 13, 2021 is incorporated herein by reference.
Compensation of Directors
There are no formal agreements to compensate any
of the directors for their services.
The following table sets forth director compensation
as of December 31, 2020:
Name
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Fees
Earned
or Paid
in Cash
($)
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Stock
Awards
($)
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Option
Awards
($)
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Non-Equity
Incentive Plan
Compensation
($)
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Nonqualified
Deferred
Compensation
Earnings
($)
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All Other
Compensation
($)
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Total
($)
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Teoh Kooi Sooi
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-0-
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-0-
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-0-
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-0-
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-0-
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-0-
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-0-
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Li Gongming
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-0-
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-0-
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-0-
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-0-
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-0-
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-0-
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-0-
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Soh Khay Wee
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-0-
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-0-
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-0-
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-0-
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-0-
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-0-
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-0-
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Employment Agreements
There are currently no employment agreements by
and between the Company and its employees. Notwithstanding, the Company intends to enter into employment agreements with certain officers
in the future, with the terms of such agreements being approved by the board of directors. The Company does not have a compensation committee
so all decisions relating to compensation are made by the board as a whole. Our officers and directors are reimbursed for expenses incurred
on our behalf. Our officers and directors will not receive any finder’s fee as a result of their efforts to implement the business
plan outlined herein. However, our officers and directors anticipate receiving benefits as beneficial stockholders of our Common Stock.
CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS,
AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE
During the year ended October
31, 2019, TNQ incurred management consulting fees of $30,030.
During the year ended October
31, 2019, TNQ forgave a related party loan of $40,830.
During the year ended
December 31, 2020, the Registrant paid $18,830 and $10,000 to Mr. Teoh Kooi Sooi and Mr. Gongming, its former CEO and Director, as their
remunerations of the capacities they held in the Registrant respectively.
As
of December 31, 2020, the Registrant’s former Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Teoh had loaned $59,197 to the Registrant to provide
working capital for its business operations. The loan is unsecured, non-interest bearing and due on demand.
As
of December 31, 2020, the Registrant’s former Director, Mr. Li Gongming had loaned $6,731 to the Registrant to provide working capital
for its business operations. The loan in unsecured, non-interesting bearing and due on demand.
DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES
The Company’s authorized capital stock currently
consists of 600,000,000 shares of Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of which there are approximately 151,043,725 shares of Common
Stock issued and outstanding, with an additional 145,977,725 reserved for exchange of Exchangeable Shares held by former TNQ Canadian
shareholders. The Company also has 200,000,000 shares of preferred stock authorized, par value $0.0001 per share, with 1 share designated
as Series A Preferred Stock and issued and outstanding. The following statements relating to the capital stock set forth the material
terms of these securities; however, reference is made to the more detailed provisions of, and these statements are qualified in their
entirety by reference to, our Certificate of Incorporation (as amended) and Bylaws, copies of which are attached to this Report.
Common Stock
Each share of Common Stock shall be entitled to
one vote at a stockholders meeting, either in person or by proxy. Cumulative voting in elections of Directors and all other matters brought
before a stockholders meeting is not permitted.
The holders of the capital stock of the Company
are not be personally liable for the payment of the Company’s debts and the private property of the holders of the capital stock
of the Company shall not be subject to the payment of debts of the Company to any extent whatsoever.
Stockholders of the Company do not have any preemptive
rights to subscribe for additional issues of stock of the Company except as may be agreed from time to time by the Corporation and any
such stockholder.
Preferred Stock
The aggregate number of share of Preferred Stock
which the Company has authority to issue is 200,000,000 shares, par value $0.001 per share, which may be issued in series, with such designations,
preferences, stated values, rights, qualifications or limitations as determined solely by the Board of Directors of the Company.
Series A Preferred Stock
The Company has one (1) share designated as Series
A Preferred Stock (the “Super Voting Share”). Until such time as the Super Voting Share is cancelled, it will have the number
of votes equal to one (1) vote plus the number of Exchangeable Shares outstanding as of any given record date for determining stockholders
entitled to vote. The Super Voting Share is entitled to vote at all meetings of the stockholders of the Company at which the holders of
the Company’s Common Stock are entitled to vote, and with respect to any written consents sought by the Company from the holders
of such Common Stock. The Super Voting Share shall be automatically cancelled at such time as ExchangeCo’s Exchangeable Shares shall
have been fully exchanged for shares of the Company’s Common Stock. The Super Voting Share is not convertible nor entitled to receive
dividends or distributions upon the liquidation or winding up of the Registrant.
Dividends
No cash dividends were paid on our shares of Common
Stock during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020 or 2019. We have not paid any cash dividends since June 23, 2015 (inception) and
do not foresee declaring any cash dividends on our Common Stock in the foreseeable future. The further issuance of dividends, if any,
will be contingent upon our revenues and earnings, if any, capital requirements and financial conditions. The payment of dividends, if
any, will be within the discretion of the Company’s Board of Directors.
Transfer Agent
Securities Transfer Corporation, located at 2901
N. Dallas Parkway, Suite 380, Plano, Texas 75093, currently acts as our transfer agent and registrar. Securities Transfer Corporation’s
phone number is (469) 633-0101.
MARKET PRICE OF AND DIVIDENDS ON THE REGISTRANT’S
COMMON EQUITY AND OTHER STOCKHOLDER MATTERS
The Registrant’s Common Stock is quoted
on the OTCQB under the symbol “URYL].” The following table sets forth on a per share basis for the periods shown, the high
and low closing bid prices of our Common Stock. The quotations reflect inter-dealer prices, without retail mark-up, mark-down or commission
and may not represent actual transactions.
Closing Bid Prices
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Low
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Year Ended December 31, 2021
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1st Quarter:
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|
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$1.80
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|
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$1.80
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2nd Quarter:
|
|
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$1.81
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|
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$1.55
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3rd Quarter:
|
|
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$1.55
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$0.53
|
|
Year Ended December 31, 2020
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|
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|
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1st Quarter:
|
|
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$6.08
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|
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$2.40
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2nd Quarter:
|
|
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$5.20
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|
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$3.75
|
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3rd Quarter:
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|
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$6.50
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|
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$4.20
|
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4th Quarter:
|
|
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$6.50
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|
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$1.80
|
|
Year Ended December 31, 2019
|
|
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1st Quarter:
|
|
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$5.01
|
|
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$4.80
|
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2nd Quarter:
|
|
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$5.20
|
|
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$5.03
|
|
3rd Quarter:
|
|
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$5.48
|
|
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$5.20
|
|
4th Quarter:
|
|
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$6.05
|
|
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$5.26
|
|
When the trading price of the Company’s
Common Stock is below $5.00 per share, the Common Stock is considered to be a “penny stock” that is subject to rules promulgated
by the SEC (Rule 15-1 through 15g-9) under the Exchange Act. These rules impose significant requirements on brokers under these circumstances,
including: (a) delivering to customers the SEC’s standardized risk disclosure document; (b) providing customers with current bid
and ask prices; (c) disclosing to customers the brokers-dealer’s and sales representatives compensation; and (d) providing to customers
monthly account statements.
Holders of Common Equity
As of the date of this Report, the Company has
an aggregate of approximately 151,043,725 shares of its Common Stock issued and outstanding to approximately 591 stockholders of record.
Securities Authorized for Issuance under Equity
Compensation Plans
Options and Warrants
As of the date of this Report, the Company has
no outstanding options or warrants.
RECENT SALES OF UNREGISTERED SECURITIES
On November
25, 2019, the Company completed the issuance and sale of the Shares at a purchase price of $5.58 per share in a private placement to Mr.
Teoh Kooi Sooi, our CEO. The Company received gross proceeds in the aggregate amount of $138,758 from Mr. Teoh, which consisted of a cash
payment of $64,516 and a loan conversion of $74,242 into the Company’s paid-up capital. The proceeds will be used for working capital
purposes and 24,867 shares of our common stock were issued to Mr. Teoh.
There were
no unregistered sales of the Registrant’s common stock during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 or during the 6 months ended
June 30, 2021.
The Registrant
issued the Super Voting Share to the Trustee on October 29, 2021.
9,053,338 shares of Common Stock issued to non-Canadian
TrueNorth shareholders in exchange for their shares in TNQ on October 29, 2021.
The foregoing securities were issued in reliance
upon the exemption from securities registration afforded by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
In the normal course of business, we are named
as defendant in lawsuits in which claims are asserted against us. In our opinion, the liabilities, if any, which may ultimately result
from such lawsuits, are not expected to have a material adverse effect on our financial position, results of operations or cash flows.
As of the date hereof, there is no outstanding litigation with the Company or TrueNorth.
INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS
There are
not indemnification provisions in our Articles of Incorporation. Our Bylaws provide as follows:
Every person who was or is a party to, or is threatened
to be made a party to, or is involved in any action, suit, or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative, or investigative, by
reason of the fact that he, or a person of whom he is the legal representative, is or was a Director or Officer of the Corporation, or
is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a Director or Officer of another Corporation, or as its representative in a partnership,
joint venture, trust, or other enterprise, shall be indemnified and held harmless to the fullest extent legally permissible under the
laws of the State of Nevada from time to time against all expenses, liability, and loss (including attorneys’ fees judgments, fines,
and amounts paid or to be paid in settlement) reasonably incurred or suffered by him in connection therewith. Such right of indemnification
shall be a contract right, which may be enforced in any manner desired by such person. The expenses of Officers and Directors incurred
in defending a civil or criminal action, suit, or proceeding must be paid by the Corporation as they are incurred and in advance of the
final disposition of the action, suit, or proceeding, upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the Director or Officer to repay
the amount if it is ultimately determined by a court of competent jurisdiction that he is not entitled to be indemnified by the Corporation.
Such right of indemnification shall not be exclusive of any other right which such Directors, Officers, or representatives may have or
hereafter acquire, and, without limiting the generality of such statement, they shall be entitled to their respective rights of indemnification
under any bylaw, agreement, vote of Stockholders, provision of law, or otherwise, as well as their rights under this Article.
Without limiting the application of the foregoing,
the Board of Directors may adopt bylaws from time to time with respect to indemnification, to provide at all times the fullest indemnification
permitted by the laws of the State of Nevada, and may cause the Corporation to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person
who is or was a Director or Officer of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a Director or Officer
of another Corporation, or as its representative in a partnership, joint venture, trust, or other enterprise against any liability asserted
against such person and incurred in any such capacity or arising out of such status, whether or not the Corporation would have the power
to indemnify such person. The indemnification provided in this Article shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a Director,
Officer, Employee, or Agent, and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such person.
CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS
None.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
We are obligated to file reports with the SEC
pursuant to the Exchange Act. The public may read and copy any materials that we file with the SEC at the SEC’s Public Reference
Room at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549. The public may obtain information on the operation of the Public Reference Room by
calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330. The SEC maintains an Internet site that contains reports, proxy and information statements, and other
information regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC. The address of that site is http://www.sec.gov.