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): October 21, 2011 (October 20, 2011)

RED MOUNTAIN RESOURCES, INC.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

Florida
000-54444
27-1739487
(State or Other Jurisdiction
(Commission
(IRS Employer
of Incorporation)
File Number)
Identification No.)

2515 McKinney Avenue, Suite 900, Dallas, Texas
75201
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
(Zip Code)

(214) 871-0400
(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)

Not Applicable
(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

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Item 1.01
Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
 
On October 20, 2011, the Board of Directors of Red Mountain Resources, Inc. (the “Company”) approved a compensation program for non-employee directors.  The program provides as follows:

 
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Each non-employee director shall receive an annual cash fee of $35,000;

 
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Each Chairman of the audit committee and compensation committee (if any such committees then exist) shall receive an additional annual cash fee of $10,000 and $5,000, respectively;

 
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Each non-employee director shall receive a cash fee of $1,000 and $500 for each Board and committee meeting, respectively, such director participates in; and

 
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Each non-employee director shall receive $50,000 worth of shares of the Company’s common stock at a price equal to the last sales price of the Company’s common stock on the date of issuance.

All directors are reimbursed for their costs incurred in attending meetings of the Board of Directors or of the committees on which they serve.  All cash compensation is paid quarterly within 30 days of the beginning of each quarter.  The stock grant is paid annually on May 31 of each year (or the next business day if May 31 is not a business day) and pro rated for partial service in any given year.

Item 5.02.
Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors;
Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of  Certain Officers.
 
On October 20, 2011, Paul N. Vassilakos and Richard Y. Roberts were appointed by the Board of Directors of the Company as additional members of the Company’s Board of Directors.
 
Paul N. Vassilakos, 35 years old, served as the Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer from February 2011 to March 2011.  Mr. Vassilakos has been the assistant treasurer of Cullen Agricultural Holding Corp. (“CAH”) since October 2009.  CAH is a development stage agricultural company which was formed in connection with the business combination between Triplecrown Acquisition Corp. and Cullen Agricultural Technologies, Inc. ("Cullen Agritech") in October 2009.  At CAH, Mr. Vassilakos is responsible for business development, maintenance of financial accounts and public company reporting.  Prior to CAH's formation, Mr. Vassilakos assisted Triplecrown Acquisition Corp. with the completion of its initial public offering and later the business combination with Cullen Agritech. In July 2007, Mr. Vassilakos founded Petrina Advisors, Inc. (“Petrina”), a privately held advisory firm formed to provide investment banking services for public and privately held companies, and has served as it's president since it's formation.  Petrina’s clients have consisted of companies which collectively held over one billion dollars in trust, with the aim of completing reverse mergers with privately held companies.   Mr. Vassilakos also founded and, since December 2006, serves as the vice president of, Petrina Properties Ltd., a privately held real estate holding company.  In July 2007, Mr. Vassilakos was engaged as a consultant to assist Endeavor Acquisition Corp. with it’s business combination with American Apparel Inc., a California based retail apparel company, which was completed in December 2007.  From February 2002 through June 2007, Mr. Vassilakos served as vice president of Elmsford Furniture Corp., a privately held furniture retailer in the New York area. From July 2000 through January 2002, Mr. Vassilakos was an Associate within the Greek Coverage Group of Citigroup’s UK Investment Banking Division. During this time, Mr. Vassilakos assisted with the execution of M&A transactions, securitizations, as well as debt and equity offerings for some of Greece’s largest publicly traded companies, including OTE and Antenna TV.  From July 1998 through July 2000, Mr. Vassilakos was an Analyst within the Industrial Group of Salomon Smith Barney’s New York Investment Banking Division. During this time, Mr. Vassilakos assisted with the execution of M&A transactions, as well as debt and equity offerings for large US publicly traded industrial companies, including Alcoa, Inc. and Cyprus Amax. From February 1996 through June 1998, Mr. Vassilakos was a Registered Securities Representative at Paine Webber CSC - DJS Securities Ltd, during which time he provided securities brokerage services to private clients. Mr. Vassilakos received a BS in finance from the Leonard N. Stern Undergraduate School of Business in 1998 and was a licensed Registered Securities Representative (Series 7 and 63) from February 1996 through February 2002.
 
 
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Richard Y. Roberts, 60 years old, co-founded a regulatory/legislative consulting firm, Roberts, Raheb & Gradler LLC, in March 2006. He was a partner with Thelen Reid & Priest LLP, a national law firm, from January 1997 to March 2006. From August 1995 to January 1997, Mr. Roberts was a consultant at Princeton Venture Research, Inc., a private consulting firm. From 1990 to 1995, Mr. Roberts was a commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and, in this capacity, was actively involved in, has written about or has testified on, a wide range of subjects affecting the capital markets. We believe his experience at the Commission will provide us with necessary insight into the requirements and needs of an emerging public company like ours. Since leaving the Commission, Mr. Roberts has been a frequent media commentator and writer on various securities public policy issues and has assisted the Governments of Romania and Ukraine in the development of a securities market. Mr. Roberts is currently a director of CAH.  He was a director of Nyfix, Inc. from September 2005 to December 2009, Endeavor Acquisition Corp. from July 2005 to December 2007, a director of Victory Acquisition Corp. from January 2007 to April 2009 and a director of Triplecrown Acquisition Corp. from June 2007 to October 2009. From 1987 to 1990, he was the chief of staff for Senator Richard Shelby. He is a member of the Alabama Bar and the District of Columbia Bar. Mr. Roberts is a member of the Advisory Board of Securities Regulation & Law Reports, of the Advisory Board of the International Journal of Disclosure and Governance, and of the Editorial Board of the Municipal Finance Journal. Mr. Roberts also previously served as a member of the District 10 Regional Consultative Committee of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the Market Regulation Advisory Board of the FINRA, and the Legal Advisory Board of the FINRA. Mr. Roberts received a B.E.E. from Auburn University in 1973, a J.D. from the University of Alabama School of Law in 1976, and a Master of Laws from the George Washington University Law Center in 1981.
 
 
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SIGNATURE
 
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.
 
Dated: October 21, 2011
RED MOUNTAIN RESOURCES, INC.
     
 
By:
/s/ Alan W. Barksdale
   
Alan W. Barksdale
   
Chief Executive Officer
 
 
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