Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors;
Appointment of Certain Officers;
Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
Effective as of April 1, 2021, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of
International Baler Corporation (the "Company") voted to increase the size of
its Board from six (6) to seven (7) members. To fill the newly created
directorship, the Board nominated Richard Outram, and Mr. Outram accepted the
nomination to serve as a director, effective immediately. Mr. Outram will serve
as a Class II Director, and as such will serve until the Company's 2021 Annual
Meeting of Stockholders and until his successor is duly elected and qualified,
or until his services cease sooner in the event of his earlier death,
resignation, or removal.
Mr. Outram, age 57, has over 30 years of experience in executive financial
management and international business. Since April 2016, Mr. Outram has served
as the Chief Financial Officer of Cinch Home Services, a national home warranty
and home services company. He has also worked with private equity backed
companies, including serving as Interim Chief Financial officer at IC Real Tech,
Inc., a video technology comp from May 2014 to April 2016; as Executive Vice
President and Chief Financial Officer of Signature Consultants, LLC, an
information technology staffing firm from January 2010- June 2014 and Executive
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Stock Spirits Group (USA) Inc., a
wholesale distributor of premium alcohol beverages in the USA from March. Prior
thereto, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for
Precision Response Company, an operator of outsourced call centers, from
November 1998 through September 2007.
Mr. Outram is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and Certified Fraud Examiner
(CFE). He is a current board member of Financial Executives International -
South Florida, an organization dedicated to advancing ethical and responsible
financial management. He also serves as board member of Step Up for Students,
Guyana Relief Council, Women Executive Leadership, and South Florida Business
Forum. Mr. Outram attended North London University from 1981 to 1984 where he
earned a Chartered Certified Accountant qualification in Accounting and Finance.
There are no arrangements or understandings between Mr. Outram and any other
person pursuant to which he was appointed as a director, and there are no
related party transactions between Mr. Outram and the Company that require
disclosure under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.
Item 8.01 Other Events
Additionally effective as of April 1, 2021, the Board unanimously voted to form
a special committee of independent and disinterested directors (the "Special
Committee") to evaluate the principal terms of a proposal by Avis Industrial
Corporation, an Indiana corporation ("Avis"), to acquire all of the outstanding
shares of the Company's common stock not already owned by Avis. Avis currently
owns approximately 81.1% of the Company's outstanding shares. Mr. Outram and
John J. Martorana will both serve on the Special Committee, and each has been
determined by the Board to be an independent director and disinterested with
respect to a potential transaction with Avis. The Special Committee plans to
proceed in a timely and orderly manner, but has not set a definitive timetable
for completion of the evaluation process.
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