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26-Nov-2008
Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets, Financial S
On February 5, 2008, Integrated Media Holdings, Inc. announced that it had signed a definitive merger agreement to combine with TeleChem International, Inc.("TeleChem"). TeleChem International is a privately held, Inc. 500 company with diversified business activities in the life sciences, chemical trading and disease diagnostics areas. As a result of the merger, the shareholders of TeleChem (the "TeleChem Shareholders") will own a majority of the voting stock of Integrated Media, that will change its name to Arrayit Corporation.
In accordance with the terms of the merger agreement, the shareholders of Telechem International, Inc. were issued preferred stock convertible into thirty six million one hundred thousand (36,100,000) common shares that represent 64.95% of the outstanding common after taking into account: (i) a 1:30 reverse split approved by the directors and majority shareholders, (ii) conversion of all outstanding shares of preferred stock, (iii) conversion of all outstanding debt obligations of Integrated Media; and (iv) the shares underlying a recently issued warrant to purchase 1,250,000 shares of common stock.
TeleChem is a privately-held company that was founded in 1993 by Rene Schena and Todd Martinsky as a chemical import and export trading company. TeleChem's chemicals division provides customers with the raw materials required for plastics, water soluble fertilizers, and alternative fuels. After four years of operations in the chemicals market, TeleChem entered the biotechnology sector with the creation of the ArrayIt® Life Sciences Division in 1996. Because of the public interest in the Human Genome Project and microarray technology, TeleChem focused on microarray products and services for the research, pharmaceutical and diagnostics markets. TeleChem's ArrayIt® Division currently provides its patented microarray platform (US 6,101,946) to more than 3,000 installations serving an estimated 10,000 laboratories, making it the most widely used microarray technology in the world. Supporting instruments, kits, reagents, and hardware complete the ArrayIt® line of more than 400 products making up what management believes is a universal microarray platform for any type of biomolecule.
During the year 2001, the Diagnostics Division was started in order to leverage the patented (6,913,879) multi-patient technology for genetic screening and testing. This next generation microarray format allows clinical laboratories to examine tens of thousands of patients on a single microarray, providing much more cost-effective gene information for population-wide diagnostics than traditional "single patient" microarrays. The company is currently developing or has developed tests for many major human diseases including cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia, and cancer. ArrayIt intends to compete in the $20 billion molecular diagnostics arena.
The TeleChem customer base includes major universities, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, agricultural and chemical companies, government agencies, national research foundations and private sector enterprises around the world. The company website receives more than 1,000,000 hits per month and the Shopping Cart allows on-line product ordering 24 hours a day. The website makes available the Electronic Library free-of-charge to the tens of thousands of researchers worldwide that wish to keep pace with the microarray literature. TeleChem scientists were featured on NOVA's television show "Cracking the Code of Life" in 2001. The company received the Rising Star Award from the City of Sunnyvale in 2002 and 2003, the Silicon Valley Top 50 Award from the San Jose Business Journal in 2003, and consecutive selection to the Inc. 500 List in 2002 and 2003 by Inc. magazine.
Proposed Executive Officers and Directors After the Acquisition
NAME AGE POSITION
Rene' A. Schena 45 Chairman , Director & CEO
Todd J. Martinsky 43 Vice President & Director
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Mark Schena, Ph.D. 45 President, Chief Technology Officer, Secretary & Treasurer
William L. Sklar 60 Director
Paul Haje 52 Director of Advertising and Public Relations
Ms. Schena holds a degree in Language Studies from the University of California Santa Cruz. She has 23 years experience in international business, including translation, contract documentation and commodities trading with a subsidiary of ConAgra from 1985 to 1988, and as a chemical import and distribution specialist, department manager, and later President of NuSource Chemical Corporation.
She founded TeleChem International, Inc. in 1993, continuing the import and export chemical distribution specialty, expanding into government bid business, and moving into the biotech sector in 1996. TeleChem is a market leader in DNA microarray technology, providing tools and expertise for the explosive functional genomics and diagnostic screening markets. In 2002 and again in 2003, TeleChem made Inc. Magazine's list of the top 500 fastest growing privately held companies in the USA. In 2005, the Silicon Valley Business Journal recognized Ms Schena as the President of the 11th largest woman-owned business enterprise in the Silicon Valley. Ms. Schena's long-term contacts in the chemical industry, strong business background and management expertise are key contributions to TeleChem's infrastructure.
Mr. Martinsky , Co-founder of TeleChem International, Inc., previously served as director of education and consulting at the Codd and Date Consulting Group. Mr. Martinsky has led the ArrayIt Division to play a significant role in the microarray industry. He has authored several book chapters and other scientific literature and has become an internationally recognized lecturer, writer, consultant and teacher. In addition to providing consulting services, Mr. Martinsky has spearheaded ArrayIt's technical support team since 1997. Along with his daily technical and business direction of the ArrayIt Product line, Mr. Martinsky established successful alliances with corporate partners in manufacturing, reagents, equipment and distribution. He is responsible for an educational outreach program that ensures that the broadly patented ArrayIt Micro Spotting Device is applied in the field with optimal scientific and technological accuracy. He is currently serving on the panel that is crafting future regulatory requirements for microarray manufacturing for the United States Pharmacopeia.
Dr. Schena is a world-renowned biochemist whose research focuses on microarray technology, genomics, proteomics, genotyping, molecular diagnostics, and gene expression. Dr. Schena and his colleagues at Stanford University published the first paper on microarrays in 1995 (Science 270, 467-470), catalyzing the explosive proliferation of microarray technology at academic and commercial institutions internationally. The 95' Science paper is the most highly cited paper in the history of Arabidopsis research and a recent article in The Scientist places Dr. Schena at positions 1 and 2 on the "microarray family tree", confirming his role as the founder of microarray technology and substantiating his status as the Father of Microarray Technology. More than 20,000 laboratories in 35 countries are using microarrays to explore basic questions in biology, chemistry, agriculture and medicine, and the proliferation of the technology has resulted in more than 26,000 publications since the original 95' Science publication.
Dr. Schena is currently a Visiting Scholar and Consultant in the ArrayIt® Life Sciences Division at TeleChem International, Inc. Dr. Schena is also the Chairman of NGS-ArrayIt, Inc and the Founder and President of Mark Schena Inc., an educational consulting company providing consulting services to a host of leading organizations such as Affymetrix, AlphaGene, ArrayIt, Biodot, Cartesian Technologies, Clontech, diaDexus, General Scanning, Genomic Solutions, GSI Lumonics, Incyte Pharmaceuticals, Irell and Manella, Johnson & Johnson, Morrison & Foerster, Motorola, Packard Instruments, Perkins Coie, Roche, Synteni, Technology Mentors, TeleChem International, Wilson Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati, and others. Dr. Schena resides with Ms. Rene Schena, the Chairman & CEO of TeleChem International, Inc., in Los Altos, California.
Mr. Sklar has served as a consultant with Willmar Management Corp. since 1988. Since October 26, 2005 Mr. Sklar has been a director of Radiate Research a public company. From July 1983 to October 1988 Mr. Sklar was the owner of Western Bag & Burlap a textile manufacturer. Mr. Sklar holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Toronto.
Mr. Haje joined TeleChem in 1999 as the Director of Advertising and Public Relations. He has successfully produced 63 major trade shows in the USA and Canada, 17 workshops, 11 VIP events, 76 unique full page print advertising campaigns, 18 direct mail campaigns, e-mail blasts, web site imagery and two full color company catalogs. In 2003, Mr. Haje won the 2003 Signet Advertising Award for Best Full Page Ad in the life sciences sector. Mr. Haje represented the company at the United States Food and Drug Administration's Microarray Quality Control projects I and II, drawing important attention in the scientific press to the company and its H25K Whole Human Genome Chip. H25K was one of only seven microarray platforms allowed to participate in the project, including Affymetrix, Agilent, Illumina, GE Healthcare and Applied BioSystems. Mr. Haje has promoted the ArrayIt brand name through company exposure on prime time television, in cover stories, feature articles, trade publications, newsletters and web broadcasts. TV includes PBS NOVA, ABC Night Line, CNBC Business Odyssey. He has regularly booked cover stories and feature articles in Science, The Scientist, Nature, Genetic Engineering News, BioTechniques, Genome Technology, American Chemical Society, JAMA, PharmaGenomics, Genomics and Proteomics, BioScience Technology, BioArray News, BioInform, and Genome Web.
(a) Financial statements of business acquired.
(b) Pro forma financial information.
(c) Exhibits
Exhibit
Number Description
10.1* Common Stock Purchase Warrant
99.1 Audited Financial Statements for the year ended
December 31, 2007 of TeleChem International,
Inc.(1)
99.2 Unaudited Pro Forma Consolidated Financial
Statements for the period ended December 31,
2007 (1)
99.3(1) Press Release
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* Filed herewith.
(1) Filed as Exhibits to the Registrant's Form 8-K/A, filed with the Commission on August 19, 2008, and incorporated herein by reference.
(2) Filed as an exhibit to the Registrant's Report on Form 8-K, filed with the Commission on February 6, 2008, and incorporated herein by reference.
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