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9.    Related Parties

Brett Moyer

Mr. Moyer has served as the Company's President, Chief Executive Officer and member of the board of directors since the Company's founding in August 2010.

On October 7, 2019, Mr. Moyer entered into a Warrant Amendment Agreement with the Company. Mr. Moyer exercised Original Warrants for a total of 453 shares of common stock and the Company received proceeds of $7,246. On November 3, 2019, Mr. Moyer entered into a Settlement Agreement with the Company, pursuant to which the Company issued Mr. Moyer 65 additional shares of common stock. As of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, Mr. Moyer owned 1.8% and 1.9% of the outstanding shares of the Company's common stock, respectively.

Gary Williams

Mr. Williams has served as the Company's Chief Accounting Officer since September 2019, as the Company's VP of Finance since August 2010 and previously served as the Company's Chief Financial Officer from August 2010 to September 2019.

On October 7, 2019, Mr. Williams entered into a Warrant Amendment Agreement with the Company. Mr. Williams exercised Original Warrants for a total of 179 shares of common stock and the Company received proceeds of $2,862. On November 3, 2019, Mr. Williams entered in a Settlement Agreement with the Company, pursuant to which the Company issued Mr. Williams 26 additional shares of common stock. As of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, Mr. Williams owned less than 1.0% of the outstanding shares of the Company's common stock.

Jonathan Gazdak

Mr. Gazdak is Managing Director – Head of Investment Banking for Alexander Capital, L.P., an investment banking firm based in New York. Mr. Gazdak has been a member of the board of directors since June 2015. Alexander Capital, L.P. has acted as the lead investment bank in a number of the Company’s private financings and as an underwriter for the Company's IPO. As of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, Mr. Gazdak owned less than 1% of the outstanding shares of the Company's common stock.

On October 7, 2019, Mr. Gazdak entered into a Warrant Amendment Agreement with the Company. Mr. Gazdak exercised Original Warrants for a total of 157 shares of common stock and the Company received proceeds of $2,510. On November 6, 2019, Mr. Gazdak entered into a Settlement Agreement with the Company, pursuant to which the Company issued Mr. Gazdak 23 additional shares of common stock. In connection with the Company's entry in the Warrant Amendment Agreements, Alexander Capital, L.P. was paid a cash fee of $51,374.

On April 4, 2019, the Company signed another engagement letter with Alexander Capital, L.P. under which Alexander Capital, L.P. earns a fee on total investments by its clients. In connection with the issuance of the initial tranche of the Series A Preferred Stock, Alexander Capital, L.P. earned a fee of $80,000 and the Company agreed to issue it a warrant to purchase 2,041 shares of common stock. Such warrant is exercisable at a per share price of $43.60 and is exercisable at any time during the five-year period commencing 180 days from the effective date of the issuance of such common stock, which period shall not exceed five years from such effective date.

On April 17, 2019, the Company entered into an underwriting agreement with Alexander Capital, L.P. in connection with an offering by the Company of 203,787 shares of common stock, pursuant to which Alexander Capital, L.P. was paid cash fees of $406,554 as well as a non-accountable expense allowance of $54,207 and reimbursements of $100,000 and pursuant to which the Company agreed to issue a warrant to purchase 6,114 shares of common stock. Such warrant is exercisable at a per share price of $33.20 and is exercisable at any time during the five-year period commencing 180 days from the effective date of the issuance of such common stock, which period shall not exceed five years from such effective date.

On October 16, 2019, the Company entered into another underwriting agreement with Alexander Capital, L.P. in connection with an offering by the Company of up to an aggregate of 125,000 shares of common stock, pursuant to which Alexander Capital, L.P. was paid cash fees of $131,250 as well as a non-accountable expense allowance of $17,500 and reimbursements of $43,750 and pursuant to which the Company agreed to issue a warrant to purchase 3,750 shares of common stock. Such warrant is exercisable at a per share price of $17.50 and is exercisable at any time during the five-year period commencing one year from the effective date of the issuance of such stock, which period shall not exceed five years from such effective date.

On February 6, 2020, the Company entered into another placement agency agreement with Alexander Capital, L.P. in connection with an offering by the Company of up to an aggregate of $835,000 of the Company’s securities, pursuant to which Alexander Capital, L.P. was paid cash fees of $83,000 and pursuant to which the Company agreed to issue to Alexander Capital, L.P. a warrant to purchase 4,553 shares of common stock. Such warrant is exercisable at a per share price of $8.80 and is exercisable at any time during the five-year period commencing on the date of issuance.

Brian Herr

Mr. Herr is Chief Investment Officer and Co-Head of Structured Credit and Asset Finance, for the Medalist Partners platform (f/k/a Candlewood Structured Strategy Funds), serves as a partner and co-portfolio manager for each of the Medalist Partners Harvest Master Fund, Ltd. and Medalist Partners Opportunity Master Fund A, LP (collectively, the “Medalist Funds"), and is a former director of the Company who resigned from the board of directors effective February 10, 2020.

On October 8, 2019, each of the Medalist Funds entered into a Warrant Amendment Agreement with the Company. In connection with and prior to the Warrant Amendment Agreement that each of the Medalist Funds entered into, the Company also executed Amendment No. 1 to the Series F Warrants held by each of the Medalist Funds (the "Series F Warrant Amendment"), pursuant to which each such Series F Warrant was further amended to add, among other things, fundamental transaction and subsequent rights offerings provisions as well as a 9.99% beneficial ownership limitation (the "Beneficial Ownership Limitation").

Pursuant to Warrant Amendment Agreements that were entered into with each of the Medalist Funds, with respect to the Series F Warrants and Series G Warrants, if the exercise of an Original Warrant at the Reduced Exercise Price would cause each of the Medalist Funds to exceed the Beneficial Ownership Limitation, in lieu of receiving such number of shares of common stock in excess of the Beneficial Ownership Limitation, the Company will only issue such number of shares of common stock to each of the Medalist Funds as would not cause each of the Medalist Funds to exceed the maximum number of shares of common stock permitted under the Beneficial Ownership Limitation, and each of the Medalist Funds shall be issued, at an exercise price equal to the Reduced Exercise Price less $15.80 per share, pre-funded common stock purchase warrants covering such number of shares of common stock as would otherwise have been in excess of the Beneficial Ownership Limitation (the "Pre-Funded Warrants"). In connection with such exercises, the Medalist Funds were issued Pre-Funded Warrants to purchase an aggregate of 20,719 shares of common stock. The Company received aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $327,000 in connection with the Pre-Funded Warrants.

On November 4, 2019, the Company entered into a Settlement Agreement with the Medalist Funds, pursuant to which the Company agreed to pay the Medalist Funds an aggregate of $47,223 in cash, with such cash meant to compensate the Medalist Funds for the difference between the Amended Exercise Price and the lower priced shares of common stock that were offered to investors in connection with the Company's October 2019 registered direct offering pursuant to which it issued 125,000 shares of common stock to certain institutional investors at an offering price of $14.00 per share (the "Registered Direct Offering"). In addition, pursuant to the Settlement Agreement, the Company and the Medalist Funds agreed to extend the date by which the Company would file a registration statement on Form S-3 to register all of the Resale Shares from November 4, 2019 to November 18, 2019.

On February 6, 2020, Mr. Herr notified the Company of his decision to resign from the Company’s board of directors effective February 10, 2020. Mr. Herr resigned to focus on managing the Medalist Funds and not due to any disagreement between the Company and Mr. Herr, or any matter related to the Company's operations, policies or practices. As of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, the Medalist Funds owned 7.6% and 8.3% of the outstanding shares of the Company’s common stock, respectively.

Michael Howse

The Company is party to an agreement with Michael Howse, dated April 6, 2018, as amended effective as of December 27, 2018 (the “Howse Agreement”), pursuant to which Mr. Howse was appointed interim role as chief strategy officer on an “at-will” basis in consideration for a monthly cash salary as well as (i) a warrant to purchase 5,500 shares of our common stock, exercisable at a per share price of $40.00 and which vested monthly over a nine-month period and which fully vested on January 6, 2019 and (ii) a warrant to purchase 8,250 shares of our common stock, exercisable at a per share price of $40.00, which shall vest, so long as Mr. Howse continues to serve as interim chief strategy officer and/or as a member of our board of directors, (x) as to 5,500 shares of common stock upon the achievement of a significant milestone and (y) as to 2,750 shares of common stock upon the achievement of an additional significant milestone. The foregoing exercise prices are subject to adjustment as provided in each warrant. Pursuant to the Howse Agreement, such warrants shall fully vest on the earlier of (1) immediately prior to a Fundamental Transaction, as defined in such agreement, (2) Mr. Howse’s removal from our board of directors for any reason other than his resignation, his intentional illegal conduct or gross misconduct, or his conviction for any felony, theft, embezzlement or violent crime. In addition, pursuant to the Howse Agreement, we also agreed to appoint Mr. Howse to our board of directors, where he may only be removed for cause, or his termination or resignation.

Under the Howse Agreement, if the Company raises capital in one or more financings from certain pre-approved strategic investors, or is acquired by a third-party during the period that Mr. Howse serves as interim chief strategy officer (or within six months thereafter), he will receive a percentage cash bonus concurrently with the closing of such transaction based on the amount raised or consideration paid for the Company, as applicable, (A) which bonus doubles in the event that the Company does not incur an amount equal to 2% or more of the Consideration (as defined in the Howse Agreement) in fees to any investment bank in connection with such transaction, if such transaction is a Fundamental Transaction (such fees, "General Expenses"), and (B) 50% of which bonus may be paid as a convertible note or preferred equity with the same terms as the other participants in such transaction, if such transaction is a financing. Pursuant to the Howse Agreement, we may terminate Mr. Howse at any time, with or without cause, upon 90 days’ prior written notice. Such agreement provides for Company-sponsored benefits in accordance with our policies. Pursuant to the Howse Agreement, effective November 1, 2018, Mr. Howse was placed on our payroll and is now considered a part-time Company employee.

In connection with the Howse Agreement, the Company is also party to the Deferred Shares Agreement, pursuant to which the Company granted Mr. Howse up to 20,000 Deferred Shares under the LTIP. Pursuant to such agreement, if a Fundamental Transaction has not occurred within 180 days of the earlier of the date on which Mr. Howse no longer serves (i) as our interim chief strategy officer or (ii) on our board of directors, all of the Deferred Shares shall be forfeited and Mr. Howse will have no further rights to such shares. Pursuant to such agreement, the Deferred Shares shall vest immediately prior to a Fundamental Transaction, and the number of Deferred Shares that shall vest is based on the Consideration paid for the Company in such transaction, which number of Deferred Shares that shall vest to double in the event that the Company does not incur General Expenses. As of March 31, 2020, Mr. Howse has vested warrants to purchase 13,750 shares of common stock and owns 0% of the outstanding shares of the Company’s common stock.

Helge Kristensen

Mr. Kristensen has served as a member of the Company’s board of directors since 2010. Mr. Kristensen serves as vice president of Hansong Technology, an original device manufacturer of audio products based in China, president of Platin Gate Technology (Nanjing) Co. Ltd, a company with focus on service-branding in lifestyle products as well as pro line products based in China and co-founder and director of Inizio Capital, an investment company based in the Cayman Islands.

In August 2019, we issued a $360,000 purchase order to Hansong Technology. Pursuant to such purchase order, we will pay $360,000 to Hansong Technology for the purchase of certain products. Additionally, Hansong Technology purchased $63,523 of our modules pursuant to purchase orders issued in 2019, with $22,923 received by us in 2019 and the remaining amount expected to be received in 2020. As of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, Mr. Kristensen and affiliates owned less than 1.0% of the outstanding shares of the Company’s common stock.

Significant Shareholders

On April 18, 2019, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of April 18, 2019, with Ms. Walsh (the "Preferred SPA"), pursuant to which the Company issued 250,000 shares of its Series A 8% Senior Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the "Series A Preferred Stock"), which shares have a stated value of $4.00, grant holders the same voting rights as holders of our shares of common stock, and are convertible into shares of common stock at a price of $80.00 per share, which price cannot be reduced below $30.00, and which is subject to adjustment under the Certificate of Designations of the Preferences, Rights and Limitations of the Series A Preferred Stock upon certain subsequent transactions and events described therein, in consideration for $1,000,000 (the "Initial Tranche"). The Series A Preferred Stock may be issued in tranches of at least $500,000 and in an aggregate of up to $5,000,000. In connection with the Initial Tranche, the Company also issued to Ms. Walsh a warrant to purchase 12,756 shares of common stock, which is immediately exercisable, has a five-year life, has an exercise price of $39.60 and is subject to 4.99/9.99% blockers and to adjustment for stock dividends and splits. Pursuant to the Preferred SPA, holders of shares of the Series A Preferred Stock (i) have the right to require the Company to register the shares of Series A Preferred Stock as well as the shares of common stock underlying such shares and the warrant issued to Ms. Walsh within 180 days of the Closing Date (as defined in the Preferred SPA) on which purchasers have committed to purchase an aggregate of amount of Series A Preferred Stock with an aggregate stated value equal to or exceeding $1,000,000.

In connection with the October 16, 2019 Registered Direct Offering, Ms. Walsh purchased 50,000 shares of common stock at a price of $14.00 per share. The Company received proceeds of $700,000 from such purchase.

On October 7, 2019, Ms. Walsh entered into a Warrant Amendment Agreement with the Company. Ms. Walsh exercised Original Warrants for a total of 25,992 shares of common stock and the Company received proceeds of $416,000. On November 3, 2019, Ms. Walsh entered into a Settlement Agreement with the Company, pursuant to which the Company agreed to issue Ms. Walsh 3,714 additional shares of common stock.

As of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, Ms. Walsh owned 100% of the Company's Series A Preferred Stock and 21.2% and 22.8%, respectively, of the outstanding shares of the Company's common stock.