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January 25, 2021 10:01 AM EST

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, DC 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the

Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): January 25, 2021

 

 

LIFE ON EARTH, INC.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its Charter)

 

 

 

Delaware 333-190788 46-2552550
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation) (Commission File No.) (IRS Employer Identification No.)

 

   
575 Lexington Avenue, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10022  
(Address of principal executive offices)  
   
(646) 844-9897  
(Registrant’s Telephone Number)  
   
   
(Former name or address, if changed since last report)  

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

  ¨ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

  ¨ Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

  ¨ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

  ¨ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (17 CFR 230.405) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (17 CFR 240.12b-2) ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act ☑

 

 
 

  

Life on Earth, Inc. is referred to herein as “we”, “us”, or “our” or “LFER”) 

  

Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of

Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

 

Resignation of Chief Executive Officer Fernando Oswaldo Leonzo

 

Effective on of January 29, 2021, Fernando Oswaldo Leonzo will resign as our Chief Executive Officer (the “Resignation”). As stated in Fernando Leonzo’s resignation letter, the Resignation is not due to any disagreement with us or our management regarding our operations, policies or practices. Fernando Leonzo continues to serve as our Chairman of the Board.

 

Appointment of Mahmood Khan as our Chief Executive Officer

 

Effective on January 29, 2021 and simultaneous to the Resignation, Mahmood Khan will be appointed by our Board of Directors as our Chief Executive Officer.

 

Mahmood Khan was appointed to be our Chief Executive Officer and to take office on January 29, 2021. He has 30 years’ experience in the software industry, including having founded SpeechWare in 1989, a CRM technology and professional services company firm located in San Jose, California. He served as SpeechWare’s CEO and President until December 1999. In October 2015, he co-founded Crosscode, a design and software development firm located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and from September 2018 to January 2019 he was Crosscode’s Vice President of Strategy and Customer Success. From December 2015 to August 2018, he was Director of the professional services at NetSuite and AI/ML Oracle ERP. His other professional experience includes:

 

• CSC- Dir. Application Architecture – January 2012 – September 2015

• HP/EDS – Dir. Solution Architecture; IBM-GS Western Region Client Principal – May 2000 – October 2009

 

Over the past 30 plus years, Mahmood Khan has lead product strategy, sales and marketing, solution implementations, customer success and operations programs. He has worked in senior level positions at Silicon Valley icons and F100 companies that include NetSuite/Oracle, Computer Science Corporation, Hewlett Packard, Siemens, IBM, ROLM and GEC Telecom. His specialty is software technologies-based enterprise business solutions. He has successfully delivered solutions in multiple industries including manufacturing, banking, telecommunications and federal and states. His major clients have included William Sonoma, Sears, Aramark, GM, DreamWorks, USPS, Bay Area Transportation Authority, State of Washington, CA-DOJ, Ericsson, and Telia.

 

Mahmood Khan’s specialties include enterprise software development, migration and modernizing mission critical applications, ERP, productivity improvements, process optimization, risks and operation cost management. Among his major achievements are:

 

• Dozens of major initiatives with consultative solution sales, business-IT alignment, technology and application transition-transformation, data center consolidation, Application modernization (rationalization, refresh, upgrades, re-platform, retire), operation optimization, Web portal and CRM applications - sales, marketing, support and services, customer data Analytics. Used transformation frameworks - CSC Catalyst, TOGAF, IBM RSA, modernize enterprise environments (MF, Unix, Linux, Windows, AIX, Solaris, Cloud). Managed software development projects.

• Managed multi-million account engagements in Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Banking, Healthcare, Diversified, Federal Government, State &, Local authorities.

 

Mahmood Khan’s technical skills include: NetSuite/Oracle ERP, CRM, Cloud Architecture (AWS), Databases (MsSQL, MySql, Oracle), data modeling and migration tools, data analytic, Unix, Windows Enterprise Server, Solaris, AIX, Office suite, legacy and agile project management tools, Visio, Office365, programming languages (C/C++, C#, Java, PHP, VB, Shell Scripts, SOAP, RestLets, JSON), IDE Tools (VSTS, Eclipse, Unity), Mercury PPM, Lotus Notes Migrator (email, applications, Database, Archive), Notes Applications to SharePoint migration process, Google and Apple iCloud.

 

In 2004, Mahmood Khan received an MBA from Pepperdine, a B.Sc. in 1976 from Salford University England, PMI-PMP and holds multiple technology certificates.

 

 
 

ITEM 7.01. Regulation FD Disclosure

 

We will distribute a press release regarding Mahmood Khan’s appointment as our Chief Executive Officer. The information in this Current Report on Form 8-K with respect to Item 7.01 (including the Press Release attached as Exhibit 99.1 hereto) is being furnished pursuant to Item 7.01 of Form 8-K and shall not be deemed to be “filed” for the purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (“Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, nor shall it be deemed to be incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act. This current report on Form 8-K will not be deemed an admission as to the materiality of any information contained herein (including the Press Release attached as Exhibit 99.1 hereto).

 

Item 9.01Financial Statements and Exhibits

 

The exhibit listed below are filed herewith.

 

     

Exhibit No

No.

   Description

 

99.1  

   Press Release

 
 

 

SIGNATURES

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

    LIFE ON EARTH, INC.
       
Date: January 25,  2021   By:  /s/ Fernando Oswaldo Leonzo
      Fernando Oswaldo Leonzo
      Chief Executive Officer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Life on Earth, Inc. Announces New Chief Executive Officer

 

Former Executive of Fortune 100 Software Technology Companies to Be Its New Chief Executive Officer

NEW YORK, New York- January 25, 2021- Life on Earth, Inc. (OTC: LFER, the “Company”), announced today that it has hired Mr. Mahmood Khan from Silicon Valley as its new Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Khan brings over three decades of software industry experience including as Director of Professional Services Practice for NetSuite/Oracle, Cloud based Enterprise Resource Planning software delivery and AI/ML research. Mr. Khan was also HP Consulting Director of Solution Architecture and at IBM-GS Western Region Client Principal. Prior to his work at Oracle, Hewlett Packard and IBM, Mr. Khan was founder of SpeechWare, a CRM technology and professional services company in Santa Clara, California.

 

A brief biography excerpt for Mr. Khan is listed below;

 

Over the past 30+ years he has lead Product Strategy, Sales and Marketing, solution implementations, customer success and operations programs. He has worked in senior level positions at Silicon Valley icons and F100 companies that include NetSuite/Oracle, Computer Science Corporation, Hewlett Packard, Siemens, IBM, ROLM and GEC Telecom. His specialty is software technologies based complex enterprise mission critical business solutions. He has successfully delivered solutions in multiple industries including Manufacturing, Banking, Telecommunications, Federal, and States. His major clients have included William Sonoma, Sears, Aramark, GM, DreamWorks, USPS, Bay Area Transportation Authority, State of Washington, State of California DOJ and Bay Area Transportation Authority, Ericsson, and Telia.  He holds an MBA from Pepperdine, B.Sc. from Salford University England, PMI-PMP and multiple technology certificates. He has a passion for education and professional skills development. He is a charter member of Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley, a board member of San Jose Conservation Corps. and Charter School.

 

Statement from Mahmood Khan:

 

“I am very pleased to have the opportunity to lead a new team of highly talented individuals for Life On Earth (LFER) that has acquired and will continue to develop their new software technology. This leading edge software technology enables and optimizes fast paced mission critical enterprise software development, accurate and flawless support for DevOps, user data protection compliance and migration to cloud environment. I have already begun the transition work with the management and engineering team and am encouraged with the progress being made.” Mr. Khan also added, “All companies with internet presence and user data need to operate efficiently and in compliance with personal data protection rules and regulations. In today’s Cloud based business environment, data is everything. Without Compliance to personal data you are dead. Migration to a safe digital environment and adherence to personal data compliance rules are imperative for survival and profitable growth. Life On Earth with has the opportunity to lead the industry in the fully compliance and digital commerce environments.”

  

 

 
 

 

Statement from LFER outgoing CEO: “We are very pleased about Mr. Khan joining our company as its new CEO. After a careful and extensive review process we needed to find someone who understood the Company vision and mission, and how to rapidly execute, and communicate that to our shareholders and all stakeholders. I believe we have that in Mr. Khan and I look forward for our team to help with whatever he’ll need in his transition as the new head of our company.”

 

 

About Life On Earth, Inc.

Life on Earth, Inc. ("LFER"), a Cloud Enterprise software technology and provider that enables rapid innovation that keeps the Cloud Enterprise operations safe, compliant and manageable. The products were designed to help organizations innovate and modernize legacy systems while minimizing cost and risk of business disruptions and ensure regulatory compliance. For more information, please visit our corporate website - www.lifeonearthinc.com

 

Investors and corporate inquiries, please contact: [email protected] | (646) 844- 9897

 

Safe Harbor Act


Forward-Looking Statements: This release contains statements that constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.  These statements appear in a number of places in this release and include all statements that are not statements of historical fact regarding the intent, belief or current expectations of Life on Earth, Inc. its directors or its officers with respect to, among other things: (i) financing plans; (ii) trends affecting its financial condition or results of operations; (iii) growth strategy and operating strategy.  The words “may,” “would,” “will,” “expect,” “estimate,” “can,” “believe,” “potential” and similar expressions and variations thereof are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Investors are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements, including those relating to the Company’s financing being adequate for the Company to develop and market its software products, and to launch its growth and expansion plans, among others, are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond Life on Earth, Inc.’s ability to control, and actual results may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors.  No information in this press release should be construed in any way whatsoever as an indication of Life on Earth, Inc.’s future revenues, financial performance or stock price.   More information about the potential factors that could affect the business and financial results is and will be included in Life on Earth, Inc.’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission at www.sec.gov.

 


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