Form: 8-K

Current report filing

July 28, 2010

 

 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of report (date of earliest event reported): July 22, 2010

 

 

COMMONWEALTH BIOTECHNOLOGIES, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Virginia   001-13467   56-1641133

(State or Other Jurisdiction

of Incorporation)

   (Commission
File Number)		  

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

718 Grove Road

Midlothian, Virginia 23114

(Address of principal executive offices)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (804) 464-1601

 

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligations of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

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ITEM 5.02 DEPARTURE OF DIRECTORS OR CERTAIN OFFICERS; ELECTION OF DIRECTORS; APPOINTMENT OF CERTAIN OFFICERS; COMPENSATORY ARRANGEMENTS OF CERTAIN OFFICERS.

On July 22, 2010, the Board of Directors of Commonwealth Biotechnologies, Inc. (“CBI”) appointed Richard J. Freer, Ph.D. as Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Freer was appointed to replace Dr. Bill Guo, who has served as CBI’s Acting Chief Executive Officer since January of 2009.

Since co-founding CBI in 1992, Dr. Freer has served as a director of CBI and, until 2008, as the Chairman of the Board of CBI. He assumed the role of Chief Operating Officer in 2002. From 1975 until 1997, Dr. Freer was employed in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at Virginia Commonwealth University (“VCU”), first as an Associate Professor and then a full Professor. In addition, from 1988 through 1995, Dr. Freer was first Director and then Chair of the Biomedical Engineering Program. From 1996 through 1997, Dr. Freer served as a Professor in VCU’s Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics. Dr. Freer received a bachelor’s degree in Biology from Marist College and a doctorate degree in Pharmacology from Columbia University.

CBI has not participated nor has it proposed participation in any transactions involving an amount in excess of $120,000, and in which Dr. Freer had or will have a direct or indirect material interest.

There is no material plan, contract, arrangement, grant or award to which Dr. Freer is a party or in which he participates or any material amendment entered into in connection with his appointment.

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

 

COMMONWEALTH BIOTECHNOLOGIES, INC.
By:  

/s/ Richard J. Freer, Ph.D.

Richard J. Freer, Ph.D.

Chief Executive Officer

Dated: July 28, 2010

 

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