December 24, 2018 / TheNewswire / Calgary, Alberta – NovaTeqni Corporation (“NovaTeqni” or the "Company") (TSXV - NTQ: OTCQB – NVTQF) provides the following update on Board, Management and Operations changes

Board Changes

The Company announces today that Gerhard Mynhardt has resigned as President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Novateqni Corporation effective immediately.  

Mr. Jean Pomerleau has been appointed to the Board of Directors to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Mr. Mynhardt.  Mr. Pomerleau will also serve as the Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer.

Mr. Pomerleau has been involved in public markets for over 20 years.  Mr. Pomerleau has his own consulting company that assists companies in raising capital and development of their core assets.

Mr. Pomerleau along with the rest of the Board will be examining the current business of the Company and looking at other opportunities to move the Company forward.

Corporate Update

The Company has been examining various alternatives to reduce overhead and increase profitability.  As a result, the Company has decided to return to an outsourcing model for any development and for any contracts that it is awarded in the future.  The Company’s reliance on winning tenders, which are unpredictable, makes it very difficult to forecast revenues and to fund operations in between the winning of tenders which also vary in amounts.

 

As a first step to achieve the switch to an outsourcing model, Mr. Mynhardt, the Company’s former President and CEO, will be taking over ownership of the subsidiaries of the Company being Novateqni South Africa (Pty) Limited, Novateqni Hong Kong Limited and Novateqni USA LLC.  Novateqni South Africa (Pty) Limited and Novateqni USA LLC will be transferred with an effective date of November 1, 2018 and Novateqni Hong Kong Limited will be transferred on or near January 1, 2019.  In addition, Novateqni South Africa will be transferred the Company`s current Long Term Award contracts (“Long Term Awards”) and the warranty, service and support requirements of the Company’s recently completed Burkina Faso contract in addition to the Burkina Faso Contract itself in the event any future sales are generated from the award.  No additional sales are anticipated from the Burkina Faso Contract at this time and all contract transfers are subject to approval by the awarding party.  Novateqni South Africa (Pty) Limited will fund and execute any purchase orders received under the Long Term Awards and will fund and execute any additional sales under the Burkina Faso Contract.  For transferring the various contracts, the Company will receive a 5% royalty on sales under the contracts.  Novateqni South Africa (Pty) Limited will also fulfill all warranty and service and support requirements for the sales completed during 2018 at no cost to Novateqni.  These actions reduce the monthly overhead of the Company and will help improve profitability while the Company pursues other contracts and reviews alternatives.  In addition it removes any liability for warranty and service and support of the Burkina Faso contract from the Company.  Novateqni will still be able to participate in the execution and funding of any outsourced contracts with terms to be negotiated on a case by case basis over and above the royalty indicated above.

   

About Novateqni

 

NovaTeqni is a technology based company that is focusing on biometrics and financial technologies. NovaTeqni provides solutions and products for voter validation, voter registration, financial transactions and biometric solutions.

  

For further information, please contact Jean Pomerleau, President of the Corporation, by email at info@novateqni.com.

Reader Advisory

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