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[Schnitzel lover]

I have noticed that several other people have mentioned voting before the AGM. As an investor in the US, I hold shares of the BCHPY ADR (a very insignificant amount) and OTC-traded BRCHF in my Fidelity Investment accounts. I assume that for my holding of BRCHF, I should be allowed to vote.

While I get the occasional marketing e-mails from BrainChip and Rob Telson, I have not received anything about the information I need to be able to log in and vote online. Additionally, there are no proxy materials provided from my Fidelity account.

While I have sent an e-mail to Tony Dawe to inquire about this, can anyone think of a reason that would exclude me from voting? Is it because I am an overseas retail investor? Could it be that the number of shares I hold is not enough to reach a certain threshold? Maybe there is information that BrainChip needs to provide to Fidelity?

I understand that I have no voting rights for the BCHPY ADRs because the actual shares are owned by the bank that issues them, but I believe that with BRCHF, I own the share.

You'll have to excuse my ignorance on this one. I've never voted for any of my investments in the past, mainly because I've never really owned a single stock, only mutual funds.

Yes I think it’s an ASX thing.. Eg when they release Announcements they say not for distribution in other countries.. I assume it’s the same for voting rights at the AGM..

It’s probably to do with where your shares are held. If they are not directly held via the ASX then you don’t have any voting rights until or unless the listing changes to a dual listing (Nasdaq).

AIMO I think that’s what is occurring here

 

[zeeb0t]

You could say "A minority of your peers don't agree."

Well, a civil jury consists of 4 in NSW. So, this is one above that.

 

[Diogenese]

Well, a civil jury consists of 4 in NSW. So, this is one above that.

But they are the complainants.

 

[JDelekto]

yes, I received mine in an email

This is probably part of the issue. I've not received any e-mail from either Fidelity or BrainChip. As I noted, I am receiving marketing e-mails from BrainChip and Rob Telson, but this apparently would not be the list they send to the actual investors.

I am guessing I either need to notify the company of my e-mail or perhaps there is some configuration on the Fidelity platform to provide it. I have sent an e-mail to Tony Dawe, whom I hope will point me in the right direction.

Hopefully, I don't end up in circles with the company saying that Fidelity should have notified me, with Fidelity responding in kind, saying that the company hasn't done this, that, or the other. That seems to be a recurring theme lately, like the whole DTC eligibility fiasco. The last reply I received regarding that topic was from Mark Komonowski on October 3rd of last year, then just silence.

 

[zeeb0t]

But they are the complainants.

Sure. And so what do you have to say when I see Forum regulars destroying the forum by engaging the trolls, putting so much effort in to that, but none of which bother to hit report?

The reason the number is 5 is because based on data, that is roughly the number of times something is reported before it needs to be looked at.

I’d much rather that number be 10, 20, 50 - but we’d sooner see as many flaming and baiting responses to trolls than reports.

Where is the problem here? Is it I for needing to set that number, or is it members who’d rather complain loudly repeatedly and publicly to the distress of the forum, then to just hit report and be done with?

 

[Wags]

The AI does not decide the human element. Your numerous peers did that when reporting.

In short; your concern is misdirected as is others here. Blaming the technology when it was 5+ peers who sent it that way is really where your argument lies imo.

Just asking for a friend, Are all these posts re Dreddbot "on topic". Careful, you may get sent to visit Bravo. oooops, now I may be.....

 

[Diogenese]

Sure. And so what do you have to say when I see Forum regulars destroying the forum by engaging the trolls, putting so much effort in to that, but none of which bother to hit report?

The reason the number is 5 is because based on data, that is roughly the number of times something is reported before it needs to be looked at.

I’d much rather that number be 10, 20, 50 - but we’d sooner see as many flaming and baiting responses to trolls than reports.

Where is the problem here? Is it I for needing to set that number, or is it members who’d rather complain loudly repeatedly and publicly to the distress of the forum, then to just hit report and be done with?

I'm all for free speech ...
for everyone who agrees with me.

 

[Shadow59]

For goodness sake Zee is between the devil and the deep blue sea with this. He is doing a fantastic job in an imperfect world.
There will always be those that disagree. Quite often the minority, which are those that make the most noise. Remember we all have personal filters if it gets to hard press ignore!

 

[JDelekto]

Yes I think it’s an ASX thing.. Eg when they release Announcements they say not for distribution in other countries.. I assume it’s the same for voting rights at the AGM..

It’s probably to do with where your shares are held. If they are not directly held via the ASX then you don’t have any voting rights until or unless the listing changes to a dual listing (Nasdaq).

AIMO I think that’s what is occurring here

I'm not sure that's the case. Wouldn't their listing on the OTC markets (not the pink sheets) be considered a dual listing? I see announcements appearing on the Fidelity platform, although usually a day later than on the ASX.

Unless my memory fails me, it seems that some announcements aren't making it through or have the distribution limitations you noted.

I still go to ASX for all the announcements as I found they are not time delayed. One could get them hot off the ASX site in the BRN announcements section before that time expired.

 

[Humble Genius]

I have noticed that several other people have mentioned voting before the AGM. As an investor in the US, I hold shares of the BCHPY ADR (a very insignificant amount) and OTC-traded BRCHF in my Fidelity Investment accounts. I assume that for my holding of BRCHF, I should be allowed to vote.

While I get the occasional marketing e-mails from BrainChip and Rob Telson, I have not received anything about the information I need to be able to log in and vote online. Additionally, there are no proxy materials provided from my Fidelity account.

While I have sent an e-mail to Tony Dawe to inquire about this, can anyone think of a reason that would exclude me from voting? Is it because I am an overseas retail investor? Could it be that the number of shares I hold is not enough to reach a certain threshold? Maybe there is information that BrainChip needs to provide to Fidelity?

I understand that I have no voting rights for the BCHPY ADRs because the actual shares are owned by the bank that issues them, but I believe that with BRCHF, I own the share.

You'll have to excuse my ignorance on this one. I've never voted for any of my investments in the past, mainly because I've never really owned a single stock, only mutual funds.

I'm presume they are coming to you in the mail, mailed from Australia? My 6 sets of voting forms came in the mail yesterday, in Melbourne that is, so I guess yours may take a bit longer (and no I didn't receive any email on this topic either).

 

[TopCat]

We could be onto something here with Dwellwell. I can imagine quite a big market for this.

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This could prove a giant boost for Dwellwell sales. Let’s see what comes of it

 

[Cardpro]

I will wait for the quarterly report but I am 99% sure that I will be voting against almost all of them for the first time .

Yes, the management can't control share price, but share price can be seen as a strong indicator of their performance (especially given we are a small tech company in which the macro economic factors are not the main driver of the share price but revenue & IP contracts are)...

The fact is that we have only landed two IP contracts back in 2020 n 2021... and none for over 12 months ... and there were no material price sensitive announcements other than technological advancements and quartery / annual reports...

I honestly thought that time to land a new contract will reduce significantly given we've landed a couple (vs 0 previously) and we would experience exponential growths... but instead, we stopped landing any IP contracts despite acheiving more technological advancement & joining multiple eco systems...

I wonder how long it will take for all these "interested" "EAPs" who are hiding behind NDA as they would like to hide us from the competitors to put the money on where their mouth is...

Also, I would love to know how are we defining "interest" & "engaged"? I am interested in iphone 15 16 17 99 and would love to test them for fun even though I will probably never buy them...

All IMO...

23 December 2020: BrainChip Signs First Akida™ Intellectual Property License Agreement

21 November 2021: BrainChip Partners with MegaChips to Develop Next-Generation Edge-Based AI Solutions

 

[jtardif999]

Athena was the daughter of Zeus, however she didn't have a mother. She was plucked out of his forehead, so perhaps the implied though is that she has evolved from the brain, therefore its link with AI.

According to my wife Athene is the daughter of Zeus

 

[Bravo]

Sure. And so what do you have to say when I see Forum regulars destroying the forum by engaging the trolls, putting so much effort in to that, but none of which bother to hit report?

The reason the number is 5 is because based on data, that is roughly the number of times something is reported before it needs to be looked at.

I’d much rather that number be 10, 20, 50 - but we’d sooner see as many flaming and baiting responses to trolls than reports.

Where is the problem here? Is it I for needing to set that number, or is it members who’d rather complain loudly repeatedly and publicly to the distress of the forum, then to just hit report and be done with?

Maybe the regulars don't hit the report button, because we're too busy contributing versus the "complainants" whose only real contribution appears to be hitting the report button?

 

[zeeb0t]

Ok - thanks to the feedback provided by the community, it has provided me with an idea to combat 'bad actors' who report.

I do acknowledge that there is a potential problem whereby the 'peers' judging you are the trolls.

So, I have now included a measure of a users standing within the community. If that users exceeds a reasonable threshold of poor community standing, they no longer have the ability to report posts outright.

 

[zeeb0t]

Oh, and as an amnesty - anyone recently 'discouraged' or 'banned' temporarily, who was not placed on that role by myself personally, has now been returned early release from prison.

 

[Damo4]

Oh, and as am amnesty - anyone recently 'discouraged' or 'banned' temporarily, who was not placed on that role by myself personally, has now been returned early release from prison.

Appreciate the generosity Zeeb0t.
Happy to discuss privately so as not to appear off topic some feedback

 

[SERA2g]

@TECH I can't see how $0 income at this stage of the company's journey could be considered stable? If we are to judge our CEO as he wishes to be (on results rather than effort) then the 4C numbers need to reflect that. In my view it would be disingenuous of him to claim the technical advances as a signal of his success - these were well underway before he arrived. Sean was hired to head up the commercial growth of the company and if the 4C doesn't show some good progress he will, in my opinion, be guilty of making statements that were, lets say, enthusiastic rather than realistic. I hope that doesn't prove to be the case for all our sakes...............

I agree the technical advances are not a signal of Sean's success in his role as CEO.

It's important to look at where Brainchip was as a company prior to Sean's appointment to fully assess his performance to date.

Prior to Sean coming on, PVDM was our interim CEO during the search for a new CEO which we now know to be Sean Hehir.

I've met Peter multiple times, he's an amazing human, a true innovator and no doubt works himself more than he needs to given his age and financial position, but he's not cut from the CEO cloth and I would hazard a guess probably hated his time in the chair and would have much preferred to be out the back in the shed (or Brainchip Research Institute) tinkering away on our next gen technologies instead of facing up for a stocks down under presentation.

I don't think it would be too much of a stretch to say there was only one-hand on the steering wheel while Peter was temporarily driving the bus, and you know what, that's probably fair. The fact is prior to Sean and given the stage that the company was at, Peter's role as CTO was the most important role at the company at that time. During Peter's interim tenure as CEO, NVISO's driver monitoring system would have been flashing red and beeping at the detection of an unalert driver because Peter simply had more important things to do day-to-day.

Fast forward to Sean's appointment as CEO, 9 months or so after the search began. Peter takes his one hand off the wheel and gets to walk down the aisle to the back of the bus where he takes a seat next to the cortical column he had been heavily working on 9 months prior but has had limited time to tinker with of late due to his increased responsibility as interim CEO. He picks up the cortical column and looks at it intently, his eyes begin to shine and a large smile crosses his face.

Sean climbs the steps of the bus, looks around, gives a wave to those on the bus and then sits down in the warm seat left behind by Peter. Sean pulls a pair of aviators out of his jacket pocket and puts them on before then placing two hands on the steering wheel and gently steering the bus back into the centre of the lane.

15 November 2021 - the commercialisation bus is now back on track. See announcement below regarding Sean's appointment, key focus areas and what he brings to the table.

https://brainchip.com/sean-hehir-as-new-chief-executive-officer/
Aliso Viejo, Calif. – 15 November 2021 – BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX: BRN), (OTCQX: BCHPY), a leading provider of ultra-low power, high performance artificial intelligence technology and the world’s first commercial producer of neuromorphic AI chips, today announced it has appointed Sean Hehir, a proven technology executive with significant experience in driving explosive revenue growth for the world’s largest technology organizations, as Chief Executive Officer. He will guide the company towards full commercialization of its Akida™ neuromorphic computing platforms out of the new North American offices in Laguna Hills, California.

Mr. Hehir’s track record of organizational development, strategic alliances, and go-to-market programs have driven revenue growth for large technology organizations, including HP, Compaq, and Fusion-io. As a relationship-builder, he has executed programs and partnerships with companies such as Microsoft, Intel, AMD, Oracle, Cisco, SAP, and Accenture. He currently serves as a board member of the Silicon Valley Executive Network and holds a bachelor’s in business from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst plus an MBA from Georgia State University.

“I’m excited to join BrainChip at this pivotal time in their history. It is a time when the company is heavily invested in working with partners that will benefit from AI at the edge. I believe my experience in building strong relationships with top-tier global clients will prove beneficial to BrainChip as they enter this next phase of growth,” said Mr. Hehir. “Preparing for the broad commercial launch of Akida silicon and intellectual property will be my top priority, so BrainChip can begin its transformation from a company developing groundbreaking AI technology to a company supplying cutting-edge markets like automotive, transportation, consumer, aerospace, medical, and industrial IoT with the best AI technology available.”

Since Sean's appointment, the following developments have been made which I believe DO signal Sean's performance (or lack there of) in his role as CEO (hopefully I haven't missed anything).

1. Complete company and website rebranding exercise undertaken within weeks of Sean's appointment as CEO (prior to the rebranding you may recall Brainchip had an Exxon Mobil-like PR disaster with the now infamous table cloth saga.
2. 9th March 2022 - BrainChip Continues Expansion with Sales Partnerships in New Geographic Markets
3. 5th April 2022 - BrainChip and SiFive Partner to Deploy AI/ML Technology at the Edge
4. 20th April 2022 - BrainChip and NVISO Partner on Human Behavioral Analytics in Automotive and Edge AI Devices
5. 11th May 2022 - BrainChip Launches AI Enablement Program
6. 16th May 2022 - BrainChip and Edge Impulse Partner to Accelerate AI/ML Deployments
7. 23rd May 2022 - BrainChip Joins Arm AI Partner Program
8. 26th May 2022 - MegaChips Forms Strategic Partnership with BrainChip
9. 20th June 2022 - BrainChip Partners with Prophesee Optimizing Computer Vision AI Performance and Efficiency
10. 17th August 2022 - BrainChip Empowers Next Generation of Technology Innovators with Launch of the University AI Accelerator Program
11. 23rd November 2022 - BrainChip Adds Rochester Institute of Technology to its University AI Accelerator Program
12. 12th December 2022 - BrainChip Joins Intel Foundry Services to Advance Neuromorphic AI at the Edge
13. 3rd January 2023 - Edge Impulse and BrainChip Partner to Further AI Development with Support for the Akida platform
14. 6th February 2023 - BrainChip Partners with AI Labs on Next-Generation Application Development
15. 27th February 2023 - BrainChip Partners with emotion3D to Improve Driver Safety and User Experience
16. 2nd March 2023 - BrainChip Expands Its Ecosystem with Teksun to Bring the Akida Processor to Next-Generation AIoT Devices
17. 11th April 2023 - BrainChip and Blue Ridge Envisioneering Collaborate on Next- Generation Tactical Edge Devices

I'm aware a lot of the above would have been a team effort including the likes of Rob Telson and Chris Stevens, but Sean's top priority upon appointment was to [rephrased] "prepare for the broad commercial launch of Akida silicon and intellectual property".

In addition to the above, I wonder how many of the podcasts guests that have come on since Sean's appointment have come from his strong network of top-tier global companies. Jean-Luc Chatelain (Accenture's [$183B company] Managing Director and Global Chief Technology Officer of Accenture Applied Intelligence) being at least one of them.

Long gone are the days where Brainchip turns up to CES with an unironed table cloth. The company has taken significant steps forward in its commercialisation efforts since the appointment of Sean.

Sean can't make the technology hit the market quicker, he relies on Anil, Peter and the rest of the team to get it to our customers to test. Timing of commercial deals is then out of everyones hands. I'm sure we're not far off deals landing, it is and has always been a matter of time and I believe that time is getting closer.

What Sean can do is get the company positioned well from a partnership and ecosystem perspective, to ensure smooth and fast uptake of our technology market wide in an ubiquitous manner. The above developments, in my opinion, confirm Sean has done a great job of positioning Brainchip in this regard.

There's more work to be done no doubt, but in my mind, Sean is doing a great job, irrespective of the share price, which will do what it'll do.

Cheers
SERA2g

 

[Bravo]

Appreciate the generosity Zeeb0t.
Happy to discuss privately so as not to appear off topic some feedback

 

[Deleted member 118]

“He says that the Renasas chip will be ready for release in the coming months. It's easy for holders to assume these will sell like hotcakes.”
While I hope this is the case, they may not sell.

Fairly certain that Renesas would have back orders for these chips, particularly if they are for the automobile industry. Renesas sell a lot into auto industry. If this is the case then when they are mass produced Renesas would be paying BrainChip the associated royalties.

Is it a chip or a product with Akida ip imbedded within it? Im more inclined to think it’s the latter.