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Section 5- Corporate Governance and Management

Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

On December 9, 2016, the Company accepted the resignation of Khalil Abu Al Rubb as a member of the Board of Directors.  Mr. Al Rubb did not resign due to any disagreements known to an executive officer of the Company on any matter relating to the registrant’s operations, policies or practices.  

On December 9, 2016, the following individuals were appointed to the Board of Directors:

Maury Blackman

Mark Schwartz

Kenwei Chong

There have been no transactions between the above-named individuals and the Registrant during the prior fiscal year which would be required to be reported pursuant to Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K that have not already been reported on Form 10-K.  

There are no family relationships between the newly-appointed directors and any officer or director of the Company.

Following is a brief description of the business experience for the newly-appointed directors:

Maury Blackman

Mr. Blackman is a special advisor to the Board of Directors of Accela.  Prior to his appointment as special advisor, Mr. Blackman served as CEO of Accela since 2007.  Accela is a leading cloud player in the government IT sector.  Prior to joining Accela, Maury was a sales and marketing professional at Investools, formerly Telescan, Inc., and served as a Field Artillery Officer in the United States Army.  He is a graduate of the University of Houston with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science.

Mark Schwartz

Since June, 2010, Mr. Schwartz has served as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), a component of the Department of Homeland Security, where he has been engaged in a large transformation effort, moving applications to the public cloud and introducing agile and lean development, continuous delivery, and DevOps. Prior to this position, Mr. Schwartz was the CIO of Intrax Cultural Exchange, where his innovative Family Room application drove dramatic market share, revenue, and profit growth.  Mr. Schwartz is the author of The Art of Business Value.  He

holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from Yale University, an M.A. in Philosophy from Yale University, and an M.B.A. from Wharton.

Kenwei Chong

Mr. Chong’s early career was in foreign exchange and global fixed income analysis and funds management in New York City and San Francisco; and later as product development manager for foreign exchange and fixed income risk management at Bloomberg.  In 2001, Mr. Chong left the capital markets profession to pursue entrepreneurial interests and has been an active owner and investor in self-storage, physical and electronic records management and storage, restaurant and hospitality, food manufacturing and wholesale distribution, physical and virtual real estate investment and top level domain ventures.  Mr. Chong received his BA in Finance from Boston University and his Chartered Financial Analyst designation from the Association of Investment Management and Research.

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