Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors;
Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
On January 19, 2022, the Board of Directors of PotNetwork Holdings, Inc. (the
"Company" or the "Registrant"), elected three new outside directors other than
pursuant to a shareholder vote at an annual meeting or a special meeting that
was convened for that purpose:
Prashant Shah, Director - For many years, Mr. Shah has been and remains
primarily a movie, television, and OTT content producer. Through his production
service company, he has produced over 35 Bollywood, Hollywood and Latin content
filmed in USA, Canada, UK, New Zealand, Middle East, UAE and India, with budgets
ranging from $3M to $100M. Mr. Shah's other initiatives include the launch of
the "Super Fight League and Super Boxing League", and the first MMA league in
India with a visibility reach to over 230M viewers. He also acts as Chief
Content Officer for XcineX, a media tech startup in San Francisco, and serves as
Chairman Emeritus to "Miami Media Film Market". He was awarded "Producer of the
Year" by the US Congress and Department of State for "Jobs Creation".
Additionally, he provides advisory services to "8k Miles Media Group", a media
conglomerate that delivers content to South Asian Diaspora around the globe. In
2014, he assisted in the launch of "CannHealth Group Limited" which developed,
produced, and marketed first-of-its-kind legal hemp derived cannabidiol (CBD)
products in legal markets within the U.S. Mr. Shah holds a Computer Science
degree from St. Xavier's College India and a Business Associate degree, London,
UK.
Ray Smith, Director and the Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Registrant -
Mr. Smith serves as CEO and President of Trycera Financial Inc., a public
company in the financial services area. Before joining Trycera Financial, Inc.,
Mr. Smith spent ten years developing technologies and platforms to facilitate
consumer credit profile reporting. Prior to his involvement in the credit
reporting and technology space, Mr. Smith owned and operated a diversified
financial services call-center which was responsible for processing credit card
applications for a variety of banks specializing in turn down consumer
conversions. The call-center generated up to $250 million in open to buy
available credit and employed over sixty people.
Yury Shmerli, Director - For the last 3 years, Mr. Shmerli has been Chief
Information Officer of Patriot Home Care which is the largest privately held
company in its industry in Pennsylvania with over 3000 employees. In 2012, He
became a partner in a cannabis dispensary in North Hollywood, California, and
for 3 years built and managed a growing facility and edible manufactory, which
he and a partner grew to over $30M in gross sales. Mr. Shmerli originally
started his career in information technology and held several senior executive
positions in private and public companies. He later built a very successful
medical management company which was later sold for $40M. He holds a degree in
Information Technology and Business Management.
For each of the above 3 new outside directors:
1) there was no arrangement or understanding between the new director and any
other person pursuant to which the person was selected as a director; and
2) there are no related party transactions between the director (and entities
related to the director) and the Registrant.
Gary Blum, Esq., the sole prior Director of the Registrant, will continue as a
member of the Board of Directors of the Registrant in the capacity of Chairman
of the Board.
ITEM 9.01 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS
Exhibit No. Description
9.2 BOD Resolution on Appointments and Acceptances of Directors
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