UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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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)
December 9, 2013
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GROWLIFE, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)
Delaware
(State or other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization)
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0-50385
(Commission File Number)
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90-0821083
(IRS Employer Identification No.)
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20301 Ventura Blvd, Suite 126
Woodland Hills, California 91364
(Address of Principal Executive Offices and zip code)
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(800) 977-5255
(Registrant’s telephone
number, including area code)
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Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Principal Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Principal Officers.
Appointment of President
Effective December 9, 2013, GrowLife, Inc. appointed Marco Hegyi as President and also elected him to serve as a member of the Company’s Board of Directors. Also on December 9, 2013, Kyle Tracey stepped down as interim President.
Mr. Hegyi has served as an independent director since February 14, 2008 and as Chairman of the Board since May 2011 of Visualant, Inc. Mr. Hegyi has been a principal with the Chasm Group since 2006, where he has provided business-consulting services. As a management consultant, Mr. Hegyi has applied his extensive technology industry experience to help early-stage companies. Over the last four years he has focused on business planning, operational management and financial supervision.
Prior to working as a consultant in 2006, Mr. Hegyi served as Senior Director of Global Product Management at Yahoo!. Prior to Yahoo!, Mr. Hegyi was at Microsoft leading program management for Microsoft Windows and Office beta releases aimed at software developers from 2001 to 2006. While at Microsoft, he formed new software-as-a-service concepts and created operating programs to extend the depth and breadth of the company’s unparalleled developer eco-system, including managing offshore, outsource teams in China and India, and being the named inventor of a filed Microsoft patent for a business process in service delivery.
During Mr. Hegyi’s career he has served as President and CEO of private and public companies, Chairman and director of boards, finance, compensation and audit committee chair, chief operating officer, vice-president of sales and marketing, senior director of product management, and he began his career as a systems software engineer. His patents issued to date include Configuring and allocating software product technical services , United States US 7904875, issued March 8, 2011; Systems and Methods for Processing Eggs , United States US 8455026, issued June 4, 2013; and, Systems and Methods for Processing Eggs , United States US 8455030, issued June 4, 2013.
Mr. Hegyi earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Information and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Irvine, and has completed advanced studies in innovation marketing, advanced management, and strategy at Harvard Business School, Stanford University, UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management, and MIT Sloan School of Management.
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.
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Date: December 11, 2013
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/s/Sterling C. Scott
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Sterling C. Scott
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Chief Executive Officer
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