UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the

Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): October 24, 2018

ALLIANCE MMA, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) 

590 Madison Avenue, 21st Floor

New York, New York 10022

(Address of principal executive offices and zip code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (212) 739-7825

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligations of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company  x

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.    ¨

Effective October 24, 2018, the Company’s board of directors appointed Charles K. Miller a member of the Board. In addition, Mr. Miller was appointed to serve on the Compensation and Audit Committees of the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors appointed Mr. Miller because of his strong corporate governance, business finance and technology expertise. The Board of Directors believes that Mr. Miller’s skills will be essential in connection with the anticipated completion of the Company’s acquisition of SCWorx., Corp., a privately held provider of data content and services related to the repair, normalization and interoperability of information for healthcare providers and big data analytics for the healthcare industry. See the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission August 24, 2018.

As compensation for serving in the foregoing capacities through December 31, 2018, The Board of Directors voted to award Mr. Miller 62,500 shares of common stock, all of which are fully vested on the award date.

Mr. Miller has been a member of the board of directors of Intercloud Systems, Inc., a publicly traded IT infrastructure services company, since November 2012. In addition, he has, since June 2017, acted as an independent business consultant. He was the Chief Financial Officer of Tekmark Global Solutions, LLC, a provider of information technology, communications and consulting services, from September 1997 until June 2017. Since May 2017, he has been a director of Notis Global, Inc., a diversified holding company, in the industrial hemp industry, that manufactures, markets and sells hemp derivative products such as cannabidiol (“CBD”) distillate and isolate.  Mr. Miller graduated from Rider University with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and an MBA. He is a Certified Public Accountant and boasts more than three decades of experience.

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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.