SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-KSB/A *
[X] ANNUAL REPORT UNDER SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 FOR THE FISCAL YEAR
ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 1996
[ ] TRANSITION REPORT UNDER SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 FOR THE TRANSITION
PERIOD FROM _______ TO _________
Commission File No. 0-19844
PARACELSIAN, INC.
(Name of small business issuer in its charter)
Delaware 16-1399565
(State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization) Identification No.)
222 Langmuir Laboratories 14850
Cornell Technology Park Zip Code
Ithaca, New York
(Address of principal executive offices)
Issuer's telephone number: (607) 257-4224
Securities registered under Section 12(b) of the Act: None
Securities registered under Section 12(g) of the Act:
Common Stock, $.01 par value
(Title of class)
Redeemable Common Stock Purchase Warrants
(Title of class)
Check whether the issuer (1) filed all reports required to
be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange
Act during the past 12 months (or for such shorter period
that the registrant was required to file such reports), and
(2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the
past 90 days.
Yes X No ____
* This amendment includes all of the information required
by Items 9 through 12 which were previous omitted.
Check if there is no disclosure of delinquent filers in
response to Item 405 of Regulation S-B is not contained in
this form, and no disclosure will be contained, to the best
of registrant's knowledge, in definitive proxy or
information statements incorporated by reference in Part III
of this Form 10-KSB or any amendment to this Form 10-KSB. [ ]
Issuer's revenues for its most recent fiscal year were $59,036.
The aggregate market value of the voting stock (based on the
closing price of such stock on NASDAQ) held by non-affiliates of
the Registrant at December 18, 1996 was approximately $20,400,000.
There were 11,669,604 shares of Common Stock and 2,042,870
Redeemable Common Stock Purchase Warrants outstanding at
December 18, 1996.
PART III
ITEM 9. Executive Officers And Directors.
The following table sets forth certain information
concerning the present directors and executive officers of
the Company:
Name Year First Present Position
Became with the Company
Age Director Class
Keith A. Rhodes 68 1995 III President, Member of the
Office of the Chief
Executive and Chairman
of the Board of
Directors
John G. Babish,Ph.D. 50 1991 III Chairperson-Scientific
Advisory Board, Vice
President-Science,
Member of the Office of
the Chief Executive,
Secretary and Director
William Warwick 62 1996 II Director
Jack O'Reilly 53 1996 III Director
James Nichols 69 1991 I Director
T.Colin Campbell,
Ph.D. 62 1994 II Director
Theodore P. Nikolis 42 1995 II Director
Arthur A. Koch, Jr. 43 -- -- Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer and
Member of the Office of
the Chief Executive
The current term of office for Class II directors expires at the next
Annual Meeting of Stockholders, the current term of office for Class
III directors expires at the 1998 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and
the current term of office for Class I Directors expires at the 1999
Annual Meeting of Stockholders. All directors hold office until their
respective successors are elected, or until death, resignation, or
removal. Officers hold office until the meeting of the Board of
Directors following each Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until their
successors have been chosen and qualified.
Mr. Rhodes has served as President since July 1994 and Chairman of the
Board of Directors since January 1995. Since December 1996 Mr. Rhodes
has served as a member of the Office of the Chief Executive. From July
1994 to December 1996 Mr. Rhodes served a Chief Executive Officer.
Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Rhodes served as President and Chief
Executive Officer from June 1993 to June 1994 of International
Broadcasting Corporation Inc., a provider of family entertainment
services, where he was chief financial officer from May 1992 until
1993. From November 1987 to April 1992 Mr. Rhodes served as President
and Chief Executive Officer of Medical Incorporated, a global
manufacturer of implantable medical devices. Mr. Rhodes holds on
M.B.A. from Stanford University and a B.A. in History and Business from
Andrews University.
Dr. Babish, a co-founder of the Company, serves as the Company's Vice
President of Science, Secretary and Chairperson - Scientific Advisory
Board. Since December 1996 Dr. Babish has served as a member of the
Office of the Chief Executive. Dr. Babish had served as the Company's
President and Chief Executive Officer from its inception in 1991
through July 1994 and as Chairperson of the Board of Directors through
January 1995. Dr. Babish was an Associate Professor of Pharmacology and
Toxicology at the New York State College of Veterinary Medicine of
Cornell University and served on the faculty of Cornell University
since 1978. He holds a B.S. in Biochemistry from Pennsylvania State
University and a Ph.D. in Toxicology from Cornell University.
Mr. Warwick has served as a Director of the Company since July 1996.
Mr. Warwick is President and Chief Executive Officer of AT&T China,
where he has worked for over the past five years. From January 1995 to
date, Mr. Warwick has served as a consultant to the Board of Directors
on management and operational issues.
Mr. O'Reilly has served as a Director of the Company since July 1996.
From August 1993 to date he has been a director and President of
Vectorpharma International Corporation, a pharmaceutical-bio-technology
related concern. From November 1992 to date, Mr. O'Reilly has been a
self-employed consultant on pharmaceutical and healthcare issues. From
1987 to November 1992 Mr. O'Reilly was Senior Director, Corporate and
Business Development for Syntex Corporation, a pharmaceutical company.
Mr. Nichols, a Director of the Company since July 1991, has been the
Chief Executive Officer of The Nichols Team, Inc., a Rochester, New
York general construction and development firm since 1983. Mr. Nichols
has served in the Monroe County, New York Legislature and has served as
an advisor to the Trustee Counsel of the Rochester Institute of
Technology, and as a member of the Chase Lincoln First Bank
Metropolitan Advisory Board.
Dr. Campbell has served as a Director of the Company since November
1994. Dr. Campbell is a Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Nutritional
Biochemistry at Cornell University and has been on the Cornell faculty
since 1975. Prior thereto, Dr. Campbell was on the faculty of the
Biochemistry and Nutrition Department of Virginia Institute of
Technology for ten years. Dr. Campbell holds a Ph.D. in Nutritional
Biochemistry from Cornell University.
Mr. Nikolis, a Director of the Company since April 1995, has been Vice
President and Counsel to Natwest Markets PLC since August 1993,
responsible for supervising loan portfolios, implementing financial and
legal restructurings and evaluating, marketing and selling of bank
collateral. From February 1991 to August 1993 Mr. Nikolis served as
Vice President and Counsel at National Westminster Bank USA. Prior
thereto Mr. Nikolis was an attorney at the law firm of Chadbourne &
Parke from September 1986 until February 1991. Mr. Nikolis holds a
J.D., M.B.A. and an M.A. in Anthropology and Archeology from New York
University and a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of
Pennsylvania.
Mr. Koch has served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of
the Company since November 1995. Since December 1996 Mr. Koch has
served as a member of the Office of the Chief Executive. Prior
thereto, from 1992 to 1995, Mr. Koch served as Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer for IBAH, Inc., a clinical research organization
providing outsourcing services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology
industries. From 1991 to 1992, Mr. Koch was an independent consultant
providing strategic planning and related services to clients. From
1989 to 1990 he was Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for a
food distribution firm. Mr. Koch holds a B.A. from Temple University.
Compliance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act
Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended,
requires the Company's executive officers and directors, and any
persons who own more than 10% of any class of the Company's equity
securities, to file certain reports relating to their ownership of such
securities and changes in such ownership with the Securities and
Exchange Commission and to furnish the Company with copies of such
reports. To the Company's knowledge, based solely on a review of the
copies of such reports furnished to the Company, all Section 16(a)
filing requirements applicable to such officer, director and greater
that 10% owners, during the last fiscal year, have been complied with except
that Theodore P. Nikolis, a director, was inadvertently late in filing one
report.
ITEM 10. Executive Compensation.
The following table sets forth information concerning the annual and
long term compensation of the Company's chief executive officer and the
other most highly compensated executive officers of the Company, whose
salary and bonus exceed $100,000 for services rendered in all
capacities to the Company and its subsidiaries during the Company's
1994, 1995 and 1996 fiscal years.
SUMMARY COMPENSATION TABLE
Annual Compensation
Name and Principal Fiscal Salary Bonus Other Annual
Position Year Compensation
Keith A. Rhodes 1996 $195,000(1) --- ---
President and Chief
Executive Officer(3) 1995 $195,000(1) --- $1,228,000(2)
1994 $ 45,000(1) ---
John G. Babish 1996 $171,257 --- ---
Vice-President of 1995 $ 95,000 $24,000 ---
Science(3) 1994 $108,398 $ 8,000 ---
Arthur Koch 1996 $112,500 --- ---
Vice President
and Chief Financial
Officer(3)
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(1) Represents consulting fees.
(2) One-time grant by the Company, in January 1995, to Mr. Rhodes to
purchase an aggregate of 705,000 shares of the Company's Common
Stock for an aggregate purchase price of $269,850.
(3) In December 1996 Mr. Rhodes resigned the position of Chief Executive
Officer and the Company established an Office of the Chief Executive
consisting of Mr. Rhodes, Dr. Babish and Mr. Koch to perform the duties of
Chief Executive Officer.
Director Compensation
Each current initial non-employee director was granted an initial
option to purchase 5,000 shares of the Company's Common Stock at $2.50
per share and each non-employee director who was subsequently elected
or re-elected as a director received an annual grant of options to
purchase 2,500 shares of the Company's Common Stock at the then market
price pursuant to the Company's 1991 Stock Option Plan. Non-employee
directors receive no other compensation. Directors who are also
employees receive no additional compensation for their service as
directors.
ITEM 11. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and
Management.
Set forth below is the ownership of Common Stock at January 2,
1997 by (i) the only persons or groups who were herein known by the Company
to beneficially own on such date, more than 5% of the outstanding shares
of Common Stock; (ii) the directors during the last fiscal year;(iii) the
executive officers named in the Summary Compensation Table herein under
"Executive Compensation"; and (iv) all directors and executive officers of
the Company as a group. Except as otherwise indicated, the Company believes
that the beneficial owners of the Common Stock listed below, based on
information furnished by such owners, have sole investment and voting power
with respect to such shares.
Name of Beneficial Owner Amount and Nature Percent of Class
of Beneficial
Ownership
Keith A. Rhodes
222 Langmuir Laboratory
Cornell Technology Park
Ithaca, NY 14850 714,000 (1) 6.1%
John G. Babish, Ph.D.
222 Langmuir Laboratory
Cornell Technology Park
Ithaca, NY 14850 723,100 (2) 6%
The Travelers Insurance Company
205 Columbus Boulevard
Hartford, CT 06183 1,100,000 9.4%
William Warwick 7,500 (3) *
Jack O'Reilly 2,500 (4) *
James Nichols 12,500 (5) *
T. Colin Campbell 116,166 (6) 1%
Theodore P. Nikolis 3,900 (4) *
All current directors and
officers as a group
(8 persons) 1,579,666 (7) 13.1%
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* Less than 1%
(1) Includes 2,500 shares issuable upon exercise of currently
exercisable common stock purchase warrants.
(2) Includes 375,300 shares issuable upon exercise of currently
exercisable common stock purchase warrants.
(3) Includes 7,500 shares issuable upon exercise of currently
exercisable stock options.
(4) Includes 2,500 shares issuable upon exercise of currently
exercisable stock options.
(5) Includes 12,500 shares issuable upon exercise of currently
exercisable stock options.
(6) Includes 5,000 shares issuable upon exercise of currently
exercisable stock options.
(7) Includes (i) 377,800 shares issuable upon exercise of currently
exercisable common stock purchase warrants and (ii) 30,000 shares
issuable upon exercise of currently exercisable stock options.
ITEM 12. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions.
In October 1994, the Registrant's wholly-owned subsidiary, Para
Acquisition Corporation ("Para") entered into an agreement whereby
Pacific Ventures, Inc. ("Pacific") and China Consultants, Inc.
("China", together with Pacific, the "Partners"), the sole general
partners of Pacific Liaisons, a Delaware partnership, merged with Para.
T.Colin Campbell, a director of the Company, and his son T.Nelson
Campbell, a former Vice President of the Company, were majority
shareholders of Pacific. In exchange for their respective shares of
Pacific, T.Colin Campbell and T.Nelson Campbell received 111,666 and
284,750 shares of Common Stock of the Registrant, respectively.
In January 1996, Para purchased substantially all of the assets
related to Nutrition Advocate from Advocacy Communications, Inc., a
Delaware corporation. T. Colin Campbell, a director of the Company,
and his son T. Nelson Campbell, a former Vice President of the Company,
are majority shareholders and officers of Advocacy Communications, Inc.
The purchase price for the acquired assets was $350,000 plus contingent
payments to be made by Para to a charitable organization based upon
revenues to be generated by Para Acquisition Corporation.
SIGNATURES
In accordance with Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, the
Registrant caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
Date: January 27, 1997
PARACELSIAN, INC.
By: /s/ ARTHUR A. KOCH, JR.
Arthur A. Koch, Jr.
Member of the Office
of the Chief Executive
