-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, KPKZRs21JHpHHOfeJGeviuqmBjtI9+/udutYKfclnrMxO2TkllYkNgW6rc+a886i u1uKSyhMZF2gGiHgxX1CDg== 0001181431-07-019861.txt : 20070316 0001181431-07-019861.hdr.sgml : 20070316 20070316173027 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001181431-07-019861 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20070315 ITEM INFORMATION: Departure of Directors or Principal Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Principal Officers FILED AS OF DATE: 20070316 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20070316 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: TRIMERIS INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000911326 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS (NO DIAGNOSTIC SUBSTANCES) [2836] IRS NUMBER: 561808663 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-23155 FILM NUMBER: 07701343 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 3500 PARAMOUNT PARKWAY CITY: MORRISVILLE STATE: NC ZIP: 27560 BUSINESS PHONE: (919) 419-6050 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 3500 PARAMOUNT PARKWAY CITY: MORRISVILLE STATE: NC ZIP: 27560 8-K 1 rrd151581.htm LARRY HILL APPOINTMENT Prepared By R.R. Donnelley Financial -- Form 8-K
 
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):  03/15/2007
 
TRIMERIS INC
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
 
Commission File Number:  0-23155
 
DE
  
561808663
(State or other jurisdiction of
  
(IRS Employer
incorporation)
  
Identification No.)
 
3500 Paramount Parkway, Morrisville, NC 27560
(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)
 
(919) 419-6050
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
 
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)
 
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Information to be included in the report

 
Item 5.02.    Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
 
On March 15, 2007, Trimeris, Inc. (the "Company") appointed Larry Hill, Jr., 56, as its Acting President and Chief Operating Officer.

Mr. Hill has been retained by the Company through an engagement of Mr. Hill's management advisory firm, Hickey & Hill, Inc. ("Hickey & Hill"). This engagement provides that Hickey & Hill will charge the Company at a rate of $450 per hour for service performed by Mr. Hill as the Company's Acting President and Chief Operating Officer. The arrangement does not provide for Mr. Hill to receive any additional compensation from the Company.

Mr. Hill is President and a founding principal of Hickey & Hill, which was founded in 1984. Mr. Hill has significant management experience working with companies that have engaged Hickey & Hill to provide advisory services. In 2006, Mr. Hill served as Chief Executive Officer of Border Foods, Inc. Prior to that, during the period from 2003 to 2005, Mr. Hill was CEO of Deltagen, Inc., a leading provider of drug discovery tools and services to the biopharmaceutical industry. In the past five years, Mr. Hill has also personally been involved in management advisory assignments with iLogistix, Centerpoint Broadband Technologies and Signature Fruit LLC, where he served as interim CEO.

Mr. Hill is a graduate of Stanford University where he received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a M.S. in Industrial Engineering.

 

 

Signature(s)
 
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.
 
      
 
TRIMERIS INC
 
 
Date: March 16, 2007
     
By:
 
/s/    Robert R. Bonczek
               
Robert R. Bonczek
               
CFO and General Counsel
 
 
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