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Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
On December 6, 2021, Tanya Rhodes resigned from Interim Chief Executive Officer of H-Cyte, Inc. (the “Company”), effective immediately. Following her resignation from Interim Chief Executive Officer, Ms. Rhodes returned to Chief Technology Officer of the Company.
On December 6, 2021, the Board of Directors of the Company appointed Michael Yurkowsky to serve as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. The terms of Mr. Yurkowsky’s employment agreement with the Company are still under negotiation.
Mr. Yurkowsky, 47, has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Company since 2019. Mr. Yurkowsky also serves as President and Chairman of Deverra Therapeutics, a clinical stage biotech developing allogeneic cell therapies. Mr. Yurkowsky operates his own family office, YP Holdings LLC, which has an investment portfolio of 50 private companies and has participated in over 100 financing transactions with public companies since 2012. Previously, Mr. Yurkowsky managed his own hedge fund and worked as a broker at several national broker-dealer firms.
Item 7.01 Regulation FD disclosure.
On December 6, 2021, the Company issued a press release announcing the appointment of Michael Yurkowsky as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer.
Item 9.01 Exhibits
| Exhibit No. | Description | |
| 99.1 | Press Release dated December 6, 2021 | |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document) |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| H-CYTE, INC. | ||
| Date: December 7, 2021 | By: | /s/ Jeremy Daniel |
| Jeremy Daniel | ||
| Chief Financial Officer | ||