UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): September 12, 2018

 

DigiPath, Inc.

 

(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

 

Nevada

 

(State or other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization)

 

000-54239

(Commission

File Number)

 

27-3601979

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

 

6450 Cameron Street, Suite 113

Las Vegas, NV 89118

(Address of Principal Executive

Offices and zip code)  

 

(702) 527-2060

 

(Registrant’s telephone
number, including area code)

 

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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 September 12, 2018, Bruce Raben and Dr. Cindy Orser were appointed to the Company’s Board of Directors.

 

Dr. Orser currently serves as the Chief Science Officer of the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiary Digipath Labs Inc. and receives an annual salary of $150,000 for such service. In connection with her appointment as a director of the Company, Dr. Orser was issued an option to purchase 200,000 shares of the Company’s common stock at an exercise price $0.16. Other than as set forth above, there are no arrangements or understandings with Dr. Orser pursuant to which she was appointed as a director, or any related party transactions between the Company and Dr. Orser that are subject to disclosure under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.

 

Bruce Raben is the principal of Hudson Capital Advisors BD, LLC. In connection with his appointment as a director of the Company, Mr. Raben was issued 200,000 shares of the Company’s common stock, and the Company will pay him $15,000 per annum in quarterly installments of $3,750 beginning on October 1, 2018. Other than as set forth above, there are no arrangements or understandings with Mr. Raben pursuant to which he was appointed as a director, or any related party transactions between the Company and Mr. Raben that are subject to disclosure under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.

 

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(d)       Exhibits.

 

Exhibit 99.1 Press Release

 

 
 

 

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.

 

  DigiPath, Inc.
     
  Date: September 17, 2018
     
  By: /s/ Todd Peterson
    Todd Peterson
    Chief Financial Officer

 

 
 

 

EXHIBIT INDEX

 

No. Description
     
Exhibit 99.1   Press Release

     
 

 

 

 

Digipath Appoints Two New Directors to its Board

 

LAS VEGAS, NV - September 17 th , 2018 - Digipath, Inc. (OTCQB: DIGP), an independent cannabis lab testing and media company, is pleased to announce the appointment of two new directors; Dr. Cindy Orser, PhD. and Mr. Bruce Raben.

 

 

Dr. Orser is the Chief Science Officer (“CSO”) of Digipath’s wholly owned subsidiary, Digipath Labs, Inc. As CSO of Digipath Labs since 2014, Cindy has created a replicable state-of-the-art cannabis-testing facility in Las Vegas, NV with validated standard operating procedures to ensure cannabis and cannabis-based products are safe once they reach the dispensary shelves. Dr. Orser is also leading Digipath’s promotion of cannabis strain authentication, which combines chemoprofile data analytics with strain genotyping to distinguish cannabis drug type strains.

 

Dr. Orser draws from over 25 years of innovative experience in both academia and private industry. She holds 18 issued patents and has authored 46 peer-reviewed publications. She received her BS in Botany from Montana State University in Bozeman and was awarded a PhD in Plant Pathology and Genetics from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Orser is the founder of five biotech companies including Adyfe, Cellphire, Big Sky Biosystems, ASDx Biosystems and iPDx Biosciences. She has consulted for the molecular diagnostic and cannabis industry as well as the federal government. For five years, Dr. Orser served as Corporate Senior Scientist and Head of the Biodefense/Biotechnology Initiative at Arete Associates in Washington, D.C. and was a tenured Professor of Biochemistry and Bacteriology at the University of Idaho.

 

Mr. Raben is the co-founder and President of Hudson Capital Advisors BD, LLC. Hudson Capital is a financial advisory firm that provides a wide array of financial advisory services to companies, entrepreneurs, financial sponsors and institutional investors primarily focused on the middle and lower middle market. It provides capital raising and private placement services, advice and transactional support for mergers and acquisitions, as well as other advisory services such as restructuring, re-capitalization and valuations.

 

Mr. Raben has been an investment banker, merchant banker and private investor for over 30 years. He started his career and became a senior banking executive at Drexel Burnham Lambert in 1979 where he worked on numerous leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations, including Mattel Toys, SFN Co.’s, Magma Copper, Warnaco, Mellon Bank and John Fairfax. He then went on in 1990 to become a cofounder of the corporate finance department at Jefferies & Co. At Jefferies, he was the architect of forming its Energy Group and Gaming Group. From there, Mr. Raben went off to open the west coast office for CIBC’s High yield and Merchant Banking activities in 1996. At CIBC, he was the lead banker on CIBC’s financing and co-founding of what became Global Crossing. Over the years, Mr. Raben has sat on a number of public and private company boards of directors, including Foodmaker, Rival Manufacturing, Magnetek, Warnaco, Terex, Global Crossing, Equity Marketing and Fresh Direct. Mr. Raben received his B.A. from Vassar College in 1975 and his MBA from Columbia University in 1979.

 

 
 

 

Todd Denkin, CEO and Chairman remarked “Dr. Orser has been part of the senior leadership at Digipath from the beginning, and to be able to have her contribute her formidable skills and insight at the board level will be a terrific addition as the Company strategically expands. Bruce Raben brings a wealth of banking, finance and transactional experience to the Company and the board. We are very enthusiastic about both of them joining us as we embark on our next chapter of growth.”

 

About Digipath, Inc. ( DIGP )

 

Digipath, Inc. , supports the cannabis industry’s best practices for reliable testing, cannabis education and data acquisition, and brings unbiased cannabis news coverage to the cannabis industry.

 

Digipath Labs provides pharmaceutical-grade analysis and testing to the cannabis industry to ensure producers, consumers and patients know exactly what is in the cannabis they ingest and to help maximize the quality of its client’s products through analysis, research, development, and standardization.

 

Information about Forward-Looking Statements

 

This press release contains “forward-looking statements” that include information relating to future events. Forward-looking statements should not be read as a guarantee of future performance or results, and will not necessarily be accurate indications of the times at, or by, which that performance or those results will be achieved. Forward-looking statements are based on information available at the time they are made and/or management’s good faith belief as of that time with respect to future events, and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual performance or results to differ materially from those expressed in, or suggested by, the forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause these differences include, but are not limited to: the Company’s need for additional funding, the demand for the Company’s products, governmental regulation of the cannabis industry, the Company’s ability to maintain customer and strategic business relationships, the impact of competitive products and pricing, growth in targeted markets, the adequacy of the Company’s liquidity and financial strength to support its growth, and other risks that may be detailed from time-to-time in the Company’s filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. For a more detailed description of the risk factors and uncertainties affecting Digipath, please refer to the Company’s recent Securities and Exchange Commission filings, which are available at www.sec.gov . The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.

 

Contact

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Digipath, Inc.

(702) 527.2060

Info@digipath.com