On March 30, 2023, Benjamin Jenkins notified AppTech Payments Corp. that he would be resigning as Chief Technology Officer (CTO") of the Company to be effective March 31, 2023, and the Company has mutually agreed to this date. Mr. Jenkins' resignation was not due to any disagreement with the Company on any matter relating to its operations, policies, practices, or otherwise known to any executive officer of the Company.

As of April 5, 2023, the Company has not filled the vacant position of Chief Technology Officer. However, responsibilities formerly under the CTO role were assumed by Consultant Mehrak Hamzeh, effective March 31, 2023. Mr. Hamzeh has worked in various capacities with the Company over the last ten years.

This includes operating as an advisor to the CEO overseeing the CTO role and the Company's platform rollout since November 2022. In addition, Mr. Hamzeh has been the Company's Intellectual Property & Partnerships Consultant since January 2022. Mehrak Hamzeh's background includes a focus of over 20 years in wireless, banking, and internet sectors, with a passion for digital banking and payment experiences.

He started his career with Silicon Valley Bank in their Venture Capital Group, reporting directly to Greg Becker on Sandhill Road in Palo Alto, then moved on to a venture-backed start-up to launch and design the first stock trading application for phone with E*TRADE in 2001 using Palm Pilot and the first Samsung black and white flip phones using the WAP browser. Mr. Hamzeh co-founded Globaltel Media Inc. in 2004, where he authored patents issued by the USPTO that became the cornerstone of mobile payments as see it today. He also authored patents that became the de facto standard for mobile media delivery and 2-way SMS communication systems over wireless.

AppTech acquired Globaltel Media's patents in 2017. In 2006, Hamzeh co-founded Transcendent One Inc. (T1") with Luke D'Angelo, where they pioneered the first merchant-owned payment processing company earning the ranks of INC 5000 Magazine status in 2011. T1 became AppTech in 2013.

In 2010, Hamzeh co-founded RhinoPay, a P2P text payment company, filed a patent, then acquired subsequently by Spindle Inc. in 2011, an OTC publicly traded company at that time.