Note 13 – Appointment and Departure of Certain Officers

Effective November 8, 2021, Enzo appointed Hamid Erfanian as Chief Executive Officer and granted equity awards to him comprised of restricted stock units (RSUs) for 260,000 shares of the common stock of the Company and options to purchase 700,000 shares of common stock of the Company.

On January 21, 2022, Elazar Rabbani, Ph.D., the Company’s co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, was provided a notice of termination of his employment by the Company. His termination became effective April 21, 2022, which was 90 days from the date of notice. Dr. Rabbani remains a director of the Company. Dr. Rabbani is a party to an employment agreement with the Company, which entitles him to certain termination benefits, including severance pay, acceleration of vesting of share-based compensation, continuation of benefits and tax gross up certain of these termination benefits. Based on the terms of his employment agreement, the Company estimated and accrued a charge of $2,600, for the three and nine months ended April 30, 2022 which is included in Selling, general and administrative expenses. The charge was partially offset by the reversal of bonus accruals. In May 2022, the Company paid Dr. Rabbani $2,123 in accordance with terms of the employment contract.

On February 25, 2022, Barry Weiner, the Company’s co-founder and President, notified the Company that he was terminating his employment as President of the Company for “Good Reason” as defined in his employment agreement. The Company accepted Mr. Weiner’s termination, effective April 19, 2022 but disagrees with Mr. Weiner’s assertion regarding “Good Reason.” As of April 30, 2022, the Company has not accrued any charges related to Mr. Weiner’s termination.