06/11/2026 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 06/11/2026 15:15
Item 5.01. Change in Control of Registrant
On June 5, 2026 (the "Closing Date"), Jakhongir Abidovich Artikkhodjaev (the "Purchaser"), completed the purchase of 3,000,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.001 (the "Common Stock") of StageWise Strategies Corp. (the "Company") (representing approximately 74.2% of the issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock) The Purchaser purchased 1,000,000 shares of Common Stock of the Company from Viktor Balan for an aggregate purchase price of $250,000, and 2,000,000 shares of Common Stock from Yuliia Zaporozhan for an aggregate purchase price of $500,000, pursuant to certain Securities Purchase Agreements, each dated June 5, 2026 (the "SPAs").
As a result of the foregoing transaction, the Purchaser acquired a controlling interest in the Company. The total purchase price paid by the Purchaser was $750,000 (the "Purchase Price"), in cash, on the Closing Date. The Purchaser funded the Purchase Price using his personal funds.
Prior to the consummation of the transaction, Viktor Balan and Yuliia Zarapozhan held 24.7% and 49.5% of the issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company, respectively. Following the closing of the transaction, the Purchaser holds approximately 74.2% of the issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company.
As of the date of this Current Report on Form 8-K, the Company had 4,044,334 shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding. The remaining 1,044,334 shares of Common Stock, or 25.8% of the issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company are held publicly by shareholders who are not affiliates of the Company.
To the knowledge of the Company, except as described in this Current Report on Form 8-K, there are no arrangements, including any pledge by any person of securities of the Company, the operation of which may at a subsequent date result in a further change in control of the Company. In connection with the change in control, the Company has effected the change in its board of directors (the "Board") and management as disclosed in Item 5.02 below.
The foregoing description of the SPAs and the transactions contemplated thereby does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the SPAs, which are filed as Exhibits 10.1 and 10.2 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.
Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers
In connection with the change of control of the Company described under Item 5.01 above, Viktor Balan resigned from his positions as President, Secretary, Treasurer, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of the Company (the "Board"), and Alarcon Martinez Marcelo Ramon and Anna Toczko each resigned as a member of the Board, each effective as of June 5, 2026.
Also effective as of June 5, 2026, the Board appointed Elmurod Sopiev, as Chief Executive Officer of the Company and Temur Zokirov, as Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of the Company. The Board also appointed Mr. Zokirov, as Chairman of the Board, Bahtiyor Kadirov, as an independent director on the Board, and Elina Davidyan, as an independent director on the Board to fill the vacancies created by the foregoing resignations.
Elmurod Sopiev, age 37, was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of the Company on June 5, 2026. Since May 2025, Mr. Sopiev has served as a Director of AKFA Dream World, LLC ("AFKA Dream World"), the operator of the Hilton Hotel in Tashkent City (the "Hilton Tashkent City), Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and an indirect subsidiary of Tourism and Entertainment Group, LLC, a hotel and hospitality company located in Uzbekistan ("TEG"). Mr. Sopiev served as a General Manager of the Hilton Tashkent City from November 2023 to May 2025. From October 2022 to November 2023, Mr. Sopiev served as a Director of Operations at the Hilton Tashkent City. From January 2021 to September 2022, Mr. Sopiev was a Cluster Food and Beverage Director at AKFA Holding. Mr. Sopiev was awarded a bachelor's degree in tourism, hotel and restaurant management from Tashkent Tourism College in 2008.
Mr. Temur Zokirov, age 30, was appointed as Chairman of the Board, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of the Company on June 5, 2026. Mr. Zokirov has worked as a strategic advisor to the Chief Executive Officer of TEG since April 2023. Prior to joining TEG, from September 2022 to March 2023, Mr. Zokirov worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers Central Asia and Caucasus B.V. in Tashkent, Uzbekistan as a Manager, from September 2022 to March 2023, as a senior tax consultant, from February 2021 to August 2022 and as a tax consultant, from January 2018 to January 2021. Mr. Zokirov was awarded a bachelor's degree in business administration from Westminster International University in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in June 2016, and a master's degree in management from IE Business School in Madrid, Spain December 2017.