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Related Party Transactions
John Pappajohn, our Chairman of the Board of Directors and stockholder, has 232,312 warrants outstanding at $15.00 per share at March 31, 2016, granted in consideration for personally guaranteeing our revolving line of credit through March 31, 2014. Mr. Pappajohn also loaned money to us prior to our IPO and was granted warrants in consideration. At March 31, 2016, Mr. Pappajohn retained 436,079 of these warrants at $15.00 per share. In January 2014, the Board of Directors appointed Mr. Pappajohn to serve as the Chairman of the Board. As compensation for serving as Chairman of the Board, the Company pays Mr. Pappajohn $100,000 per year and granted to Mr. Pappajohn 25,000 restricted shares of the Company’s common stock and options to purchase an aggregate of 100,000 shares of the Company's common stock.
In April 2014, we entered into a consulting agreement with Equity Dynamics, Inc. (“EDI”), an entity controlled by Mr. Pappajohn, pursuant to which EDI received a monthly fee of $10,000. Total expenses for the three months ended March 31, 2016 and 2015 were $30,000. As of March 31, 2016, we owed EDI $0.
In 2010, we entered into a three-year consulting agreement with Dr. Chaganti, which was subsequently renewed through December 31, 2016 pursuant to which Dr. Chaganti receives $5,000 per month for providing consulting and technical support services. Pursuant to the terms of the renewed consulting agreement, Dr. Chaganti received an option to purchase 200,000 shares of our common stock at a purchase price of $15.89 per share vesting over a period of four years. Total non-cash stock-based compensation recognized under the consulting agreement for each of the three months ended March 31, 2016 and 2015 was $16,125 and $62,500, respectively. Also pursuant to the consulting agreement, Dr. Chaganti assigned to us all rights to any inventions which he may invent during the course of rendering consulting services to us. In exchange for this assignment, if the USPTO issues a patent for an invention on which Dr. Chaganti is listed as an inventor, we are required to pay Dr. Chaganti (i) a one-time payment of $50,000 and (ii) 1% of any net revenues we receive from any licensed sales of the invention. In the first quarter of 2016, we paid Dr. Chaganti $50,000 which was recognized as an expense in fiscal 2015 when one patent was issued.
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