Effective April 9. 2021, Richard Munn and William Green each voluntarily resigned as a Director of QS Energy, Inc. (the “Company”), and all committees thereof. Effective April 15, 2021, Jason Lane and Thomas Bundros each voluntarily resigned as a Director of the Company, and all committees thereof. Concurrently, effective that date, Mr. Lane also voluntarily resigned as Chairman of the Board of the Company. Effective April 15, 2021, the remaining Board members, namely, Don Dickson and Eric Bunting, appointed Cecil Bond Kyte to serve as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer on such mutually acceptable terms and conditions to be determined at a later date, based on and subject to the Company’s financial condition and viability. Currently, Mr. Kyte will not receive any cash or stock consideration for his roles as CEO and CFO of the Company until approved by the Board. Currently, there is no agreement or arrangement regarding compensation for Mr. Kyte in his roles as CEO and CFO of the Company. Additionally, effective April 15, 2021, the remaining Board members appointed Mr. Kyte to serve on the Company’s Board of Directors and to serve as the Company’s Chairman of the Board. The Board also approved a resolution suspending all Board compensation effective January 1, 2021, payable under the Company’s May 6, 2014, Board compensation policy as amended January 1, 2015. In December 2007, Mr. Kyte, age 50, was elected to serve as Chairman of the Board of the Company, then known as Save The World Air, Inc. (“STWA”). In January 2010, he was appointed to serve as CEO of STWA. In November 2013, Mr. Kyte voluntarily resigned as a director, Chairman of the Board, and CEO of STWA. Since then, Mr. Kyte has held positions with the following public companies: MassRoots, Inc., where he served as a board member from late 2017, through July 2019. Massroots Inc. was a technology platform for the cannabis industry during the time Mr. Kyte served as a director of the company; Rightscorp, Inc., where, since 2015, Mr. Kyte has served and continues to serve as the company’s CEO, and since 2016, has served and continues to serve as the company’s CFO. Mr. Kyte is also a member of the board of Rightscorp. Rightscorp’s mission is to support copyright holders’ abilities to litigate and monetize their music and other copyrights against piracy and peer to peer infringement on the internet.
QS Energy, Inc. develops and commercializes energy efficiency technologies that assist in improving the economics of oil transport and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The Company's intellectual properties include a portfolio of domestic and international patents. Its primary technology is called Applied Oil Technology (AOT), a commercial-grade crude oil pipeline transportation flow-assurance product. AOT is engineered specifically to reduce pipeline pressure loss, increase pipeline flow rate and capacity, and reduce shippersâ reliance on diluents and drag reducing agents to meet pipeline maximum viscosity requirements. Its AOT crude oil viscosity reduction technology directly targets the heavy crude oil transportation industry, initially targeting the midstream crude oil pipeline operations which deliver high volumes of heavy crude oil to market. QS Energy Pool, Inc., a subsidiary of the Company, serves as a vehicle for it to explore, review and consider acquisition opportunities.