Aerkomm Inc 8-K, filed Feb 6, 2025
Aerkomm Inc. (AKOM)
About this 8-K
Aerkomm Inc filed this 8-K on February 6, 2025, reporting on events of February 3, 2025.
Items reported
- Item 5.02: Director or officer change, or executive pay
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CURRENT REPORT
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Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
On February 3, 2025, at a meeting of the board of directors (the “Board”) of Aerkomm Inc. (the “Company”), the Board appointed Mr. Robert McGuire to become an independent member of the Board effectively immediately, to fill one of the vacancies recently created by the resignation of two of the Company’s independent directors, Mr. Colin Lim and Mr. Raymond Choy.
Robert McGuire, Director – Mr. McGuire has more than 35 years of experience as an international business manager in industrial companies and as an entrepreneur, having been based in Japan for much of his career. Mr. McGuire was the President of the Japan subsidiary of Lord Corporation, a global leader in specialty chemicals, from 2013 to 2018; the President of the China subsidiary of glass industry leader Owens Illinois from 2011 to 2013, where he managed more than 4,000 employees; the Vice-President and then President of Sekisui-Fuller, a joint venture in Japan and China between industrial adhesives leader HB Fuller and Sekisui Chemical, from 2005-2010; and before then served as the President of HB Fuller’s Japan subsidiary and in positions with Donaldson Company and Deere & Company. Following a successful career managing the Japan and China operations of industrial manufacturers, Mr. McGuire focused on establishing his own companies, including McGuire Specialty Chemical, which he founded in 2019 and where he is currently the President, and Solar Power Partners, which he founded in Japan in February 2018 and where he is currently the President, and in residential and hospitality real estate investments in Japan, the United States and Thailand.
Mr. McGuire earned his MBA from the University of Minnesota in 1994 and his B.A. in International Management from Gustavus Adolphus College in 1987. Mr. McGuire is fluent in speaking, reading and writing Japanese and has a working knowledge of Mandarin.
There are no arrangements or understandings between Mr. McGuire and any other persons pursuant to which he was elected as a director. There is no family relationship that exists between Mr. McGuire and any directors or executive officers of the Company. In addition, there has been no transaction, nor is there any currently proposed transaction between Mr. McGuire and the Company, that would require disclosure under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.
Also at this Board meeting, the Board took the following additional actions:
| · | Appointed Mr. McGuire as a member of, and Chairman of, the Company’s Compensation Committee (this position formerly held by Mr. Colin Lim); |
| · | Appointed Louis Giordimaina as the interim Chairman of the Board; (this position formerly held by Mr. Jeffrey Wun) and |
| · | Appointed Richmon Akumiah as Chairman of the Company’s Audit Committee (this position formerly held by Mr. Raymond Choy) |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| Date: February 4, 2025 | AERKOMM INC. | |
| /s/ Louis Giordimaina | ||
| Name: | Louis Giordimaina | |
| Title: | Chief Executive Officer | |