UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, DC 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 reported) July 27, 2020  

 

GOLDEN MATRIX GROUP, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

  

Nevada

 

000-54840

 

46-1814729

(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)

 

(Commission File Number)

 

(IRS Employer Identification No.)

 

3651 Lindell Road, Suite D131, Las Vegas, NV

 

89103

(Address of principal executive offices)

 

(Postal Code)

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (702) 318-7548

 

Not Applicable

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

  

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Item 5.02 Departure of Directors of Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

 

On July 27, 2020, the Board of Directors appointed Mr. Murray G. Smith as Director of the Company. Mr. Smith’s appointment will be effective August 1, 2020.

 

Mr. Murray G. Smith

 

Murray G. Smith is a licensed Certified Public Accountant with over twenty-seven years’ accounting and finance leadership experience. Mr. Smith currently serves as the Divisional Chief Financial Officer of Craft Canning + Bottling, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Eastside Distilling, Inc., a NASDAQ company, and operates his own consulting practice focusing on financial process improvement, client training to perform accounting procedures, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and internal audit outsourcing. Mr. Smith is also a Certified Fraud Examiner.

 

Mr. Smith served as the Chief Financial Officer for Paulson Capital Corp., a NASDAQ company, from 2010-2014 where he co-led a reverse merger transaction of the parent company, while navigating the regulatory hurdles of the SEC, NASDAQ & FINRA in simultaneously spinning out the Broker-Dealer subsidiary to a new ownership group and creating a $10 Million liquidating trust. He also served as the Chief Financial Officer for Jewett-Cameron Trading Company, Ltd., a NASDAQ company, from 2009-2015. Mr. Smith’s other previous employers have included Intel, Arthur Andersen and Teledyne. He is a graduate of the University of Washington, with a Bachelor of Arts degree awarded in 1993 in Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting. Mr. Smith held the following FINRA Licenses: Series 7, 27 and 66. 

  

 

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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.

 

  GOLDEN MATRIX GROUP, INC.
       
Date: July 27, 2020 By: /s/ Anthony Goodman

 

 

Name: Anthony Goodman  
    Title: Chief Executive Officer