Company: OPGN
Filing Date: 2025-08-21
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001829126-25-006628
Chunk: 326

Company: OPGEN INC
Filing Date: 2025-08-21
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1B
Chunk 326
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. Consistent with the Company’s cash management efforts, the Company reduced its director compensation plan by forty percent (40%). Mr. Schacht did not receive additional compensation for his service on the Board. See “Summary Compensation Table” for his 2024 compensation.

Following the initial closing of the March 2024 Private Placement, the Company entered into director agreements with each of Messrs. Ben-Tzvi, Lazar, McMurdo and Natan. Pursuant to the director agreements, each director will be entitled to receive from the Company a cash fee of $12,500 per quarter (pro-rated for any partial quarter) plus a one-time fee of $50,000 upon signing their director agreements. Such cash fees will accrue until such time as the Company raises sufficient capital to pay the accrued but unpaid cash fees or the director elects to convert such unpaid fees into shares of common stock of the Company. The cash director fee would convert at a rate of $4.00 per share for each $1.00 of accrued and unpaid fee that is converted. In addition to the quarterly cash fee, under the director agreements, each director was granted 10,000 shares of restricted common stock.

In conjunction with Mr. Lazar’s resignation as CEO, Chairman and Director of the Company, effective August 2, 2024, on August 2, 2024, the Board appointed John Tan Honjian as Chief Executive Officer, Chairman and Director of the Company.

On August 9, 2024, following the transaction pursuant to which Mr. Lazar sold his shares of Series E Preferred Stock together with his rights to purchase the additional shares of Series E Preferred Stock under the March 2024 Purchase Agreement to AEI Capital Ltd., the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) voted to appoint Christian-Laurent Bonte, Victor Chua Kok Hoe, Ken Lim Zhao Qi, Ethan Low Yu Jie and Constance Wong Poh Yin as directors of the Company. Pursuant to the director agreements, each director will be entitled to receive from the Company restricted stock units having a value of $50,000, but the awards will not be issued or vest until the Company’s stockholders approve the Company’s new equity incentive plan, which the Company plans to propose at the upcoming Annual Meeting of stockholders. All such awards are made under the Company’s 2015 Equity Incentive Plan. Mr. John Tan Honjian did not receive compensation for his service on the Board. See “