Paragon Calls Out Ocean Power’s Contract Award Announcements in Response to Paragon’s Campaign as Too Little, Too Late
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EASTON, PA / ACCESSWIRE / December 13, 2023 / Paragon Technologies, Inc. ("Paragon"), a diversified holding company, owning approximately
When Paragon expressed its grave concerns to the OPT Board regarding the Company's alarming financial losses and rapid decline in shareholder value, Paragon requested that its three directors be part of OPT's six-member Board, thus contributing an equal voice on the Board. As the largest shareholder, owning
Ever since we voiced those concerns, the financial degradation of OPTT has gotten drastically worse:
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On April 30th, 2021, OPT's share price closed at
Perhaps more self-serving at the expense of shareholders is that over the past three years Board and Executive Officer Compensation more than doubled and exceeded OPTT's revenues!
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Yet rather than work constructively with Paragon's director nominees - who have delivered an
Over the past few months OPT has issued announcements promoting potential sales opportunities or contract awards that we believe do not guarantee any definitive revenues at the stated time but appear to require continued capital expenditure by OPT.
We believe OPT continues to mislead shareholders with the Company's latest December 11, 2023 press release announcing the "Letter Contract with a
After 30 years of OPT failing to profitably commercialize a product, OPT's Board and CEO can only manage to sign agreements that require OPT to take significant risk without any definitive commitment of business.
Interestingly OPT's share price declined by approximately
OPT shareholders can put a stop to this downward stock price spiral and ongoing mismanagement of shareholder assets. Vote Paragon's BLUE proxy card that will arrive in the mail and discard ANY white proxy card from OPT.
Please email us at ir@pgntgroup.com with any questions about how to vote your BLUE proxy card.
We appreciate the support from shareholders thus far. If shareholders have any questions, please contact our Proxy Solicitor, Alliance Advisors at:
Alliance Advisors
200 Broadacres Drive, 3rd Floor
Bloomfield, NJ 07003
Toll-Free Phone: 855-200-8651
Email: OPTT@allianceadvisors.com
We would like to hear from you. Please email us at ir@pgntgroup.com if you would like to learn more.
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Paragon Technologies, Inc., together with the other participants named herein, intends to make a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") of a proxy statement and an accompanying proxy card to be used to solicit votes for the election of director nominees at the 2023 annual meeting of shareholders of Ocean Power Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "company").
Paragon Technologies, Inc. is the beneficial owner of 2,909,445 shares of common stock of the company, par value
Paragon Technologies, Inc., and Paragon's director nominees Hesham M. Gad, Shawn M. Harpen, Jack H. Jacobs, and Samuel S. Weiser, will be the participants in the proxy solicitation. Mr. Gad, Executive Chairman of Paragon's Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of Paragon, and Messrs. Jacobs and Weiser, directors of Paragon, may be deemed to beneficially own the shares of the company's common stock held by Paragon. Ms. Harpen does not own beneficially or of record any securities of the company. Updated information regarding the participants and their direct and indirect interests in the solicitation, by security holdings or otherwise, will be included in Paragon's proxy statement and other materials filed with the SEC.
SHAREHOLDERS OF THE COMPANY SHOULD READ THE PROXY STATEMENT AND OTHER PROXY MATERIALS CAREFULLY AND IN THEIR ENTIRETY AS THEY BECOME AVAILABLE AS THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION RELATING TO THE COMPANY'S ANNUAL MEETING, PARAGON'S SOLICITATION OF PROXIES AND PARAGON'S NOMINEES TO THE BOARD. SUCH PROXY MATERIALS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT NO CHARGE ON THE SEC'S WEB SITE AT WWW.SEC.GOV OR FROM PARAGON TECHNOLOGIES, INC. REQUESTS FOR COPIES, WHEN AVAILABLE, SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO PARAGON'S PROXY SOLICITOR.
SOURCE: Paragon Technologies Inc.
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