Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

(a) Effective June 27, 2011, Mark Fidler joined Ambient Corporation ("Ambient" or the Company") as its Principal Financial Officer and Vice President. Prior to joining Ambient, Mr. Fidler, 40, spent ten years at Evergreen Solar Inc. in positions of increasing responsibility, first as Corporate Controller and most recently as Vice President of Finance & Treasurer. Prior to his tenure at Evergreen Solar, Mr. Fidler held various senior finance roles at The Boston Consulting Group and Hampshire Chemical, a division of Dow Chemical, and he began his career as an accountant at Coopers & Lybrand. Mr. Fidler received a B.S. degree in Accounting from Syracuse University and an M.B.A. from Northeastern University's Graduate School of Business Administration. Mr. Fidler is also a certified public accountant.

Mr. Fidler will receive an annual salary of $250,000, and he received a signing bonus of $12,500. The Company also granted to Mr. Fidler a stock option to purchase 2,000,000 shares of Ambient common stock under the Company's 2000 Equity Incentive Plan at an exercise price of $0.075 per share, which options will vest in equal quarterly installments over a three-year period beginning on the first anniversary of the effective date of his employment. Upon satisfactory job performance as determined by Ambient's Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Fidler will become the Chief Financial Officer on the earlier of September 27, 2011 and the anticipated listing of the Company's common stock on the NASDAQ Stock Market, at which time, the Company would enter into an employment agreement with Mr. Fidler, pay him an additional $12,500 bonus and grant him an additional stock option to purchase 3,000,000 shares of Ambient common stock subject to approval by the Company's Compensation Committee. If, prior to Mr. Fidler's promotion to Chief Financial Officer, the Company terminates Mr. Fidler without cause or he terminates his employment in connection with a change of control, he will receive a severance payment of six months of his base salary, and the Company will pay his COBRA premiums for six months.

(b) Effective June 29, 2011, the Board of Directors of the Company elected Francesca E. Scarito to the Board as a Director. Ms. Scarito was also appointed to the Audit Committee of the Board. Ms. Scarito is President of RS Finance & Consulting, LLC, a boutique investment bank located in Boston, Massachusetts. Ms. Scarito has been an investment banker for over 20 years and has extensive experience in private capital, equity capital markets and mergers and acquisitions. Ms. Scarito earned a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. There are no arrangements or understandings between Ms. Scarito and any other person pursuant to which she was elected to the Board, and there are no relationships between Ms. Scarito and the Company that would require disclosure under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Ambient compensates independent directors at an annual rate of $15,000. Ms. Scarito will receive a pro rata portion of such compensation.

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