PREMIER BIOMEDICAL, INC. (OTCMKTS:BIEI) Files An 8-K Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain OfficersItem 5.02 Departure of directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
On December 7, 2017, John Pauly, age 56, was appointed to our Board of Directors.
Mr. Pauly has served as Executive Vice President at HealthWarehouse.com, Inc., an online Verified Internet Pharmacy Practice Site (VIPPS), since October 2017. From January 2017 through March 2017, Mr. Pauly served as the interim Chief Executive Officer of HealthWarehouse.com. From January 2016 until his time at HealthWarehouse.com, he was the Chief Operating Officer of Specialty Medical Drug Store, also a VIPPS accredited online pharmacy business.
Since January 2014, Mr. Pauly has been an independent consultant and investor to businesses in the pharmaceutical industry. From August 2013 through December 2013, he was Vice President at Acton Pharmaceuticals where he was responsible for the strategy and operations to commercialize its first FDA approved product, handling all implementation activities through outsourced third-parties.
From January 2013 through August 2013, Mr. Pauly was a consultant to the Chief Executive Officer of Crown Laboratories, Inc., a fully integrated specialty pharmaceutical company. There he assisted in creating and implementing corporate strategy, and OTC and Rx drug development, manufacturing and commercialization.
Prior to his time at Crown Laboratories, Mr. Pauly was at Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC, a specialty healthcare company and subsidiary of Merz Pharmaceuticals GmbH, where he served as Vice President of Commercial Operations from May 2011 to June 2012 and Executive Director of OCG Strategy and Operations from March 2009 to April 2011. His duties at Merz included management of a unit of 98 people covering a wide-range of business functions. He played a major role in corporate strategy and evaluating licensing and M&A opportunities.
Mr. Pauly has also served in a variety of management positions within the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries since 1990 and brings a wide range of skills and expertise to the Board of Directors.
Mr. Pauly will be compensated similarly to other members of our Board of Directors. Board members have no fixed compensation terms and are typically compensated through stock options that are granted at the discretion of the Board based on the Company’s financial status.
About PREMIER BIOMEDICAL, INC. (OTCMKTS:BIEI)
Premier Biomedical, Inc. is a research-based company that intends to discover and develop medical treatments for humans, specifically focusing the treatment of Cancer, Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Neuropathic Pain, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS/Lou Gehrig’s Disease), Fibromyalgia, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and Blood Sepsis and Viremia. The Company intends to develop its Sequential-Dialysis Technique, to target Cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, ALS, Blood Sepsis, Leukemia and other life-threatening cancers. The Sequential-Dialysis Technique is a methodology for the removal of those molecules, which are harmful and responsible for causing diseases. Its Sequential-Dialysis Technique method removes those excitatory neural transmitters that cause the death of those cells. It also intends to develop Feldetrex, a candidate drug, for the treatment of MS, Fibromyalgia and TBI. Feldetrex utilizes a low dosage of Naltrexone to increase endogenous enkephalins10.