RETRANSMISSION: Paragon Calls Out Ocean Power’s Contract Award Announcements in Response to Paragon’s Campaign as Too Little, Too Late - Seite 2

Over the past few months OPT has issued announcements promoting potential sales opportunities or contract awards that we believe do not guarantee any definitive revenues at the stated time but appear to require continued capital expenditure by OPT.

We believe OPT continues to mislead shareholders with the Company's latest December 11, 2023 press release announcing the "Letter Contract with a $6.5M Ceiling." CEO Phillip Stratmann again takes a victory lap without clearly telling shareholders that a letter contract is effectively a commitment by OPT to manufacture products without ANY definitive commitment of a purchase order contract. Not surprisingly, the press release fails to provide any details as to when revenue might be earned, the expected potential profitability or any other information that can give shareholders confidence in the Company's board and management.

After 30 years of OPT failing to profitably commercialize a product, OPT's Board and CEO can only manage to sign agreements that require OPT to take significant risk without any definitive commitment of business.

Interestingly OPT's share price declined by approximately 10% on the same day that OPT announced the Letter Contract.

OPT shareholders can put a stop to this downward stock price spiral and ongoing mismanagement of shareholder assets. Vote Paragon's BLUE proxy card that will arrive in the mail and discard ANY white proxy card from OPT.

Please email us at [e-mail] with any questions about how to vote your BLUE proxy card.

We appreciate the support from shareholders thus far. If shareholders have any questions, please contact our Proxy Solicitor, Alliance Advisors at:

Alliance Advisors
200 Broadacres Drive, 3rd Floor
Bloomfield, NJ 07003
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We would like to hear from you. Please email us at [e-mail] if you would like to learn more.

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Paragon Technologies, Inc., together with the other participants named herein, intends to make a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") of a proxy statement and an accompanying proxy card to be used to solicit votes for the election of director nominees at the 2023 annual meeting of shareholders of Ocean Power Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "company").

Paragon Technologies, Inc. is the beneficial owner of 2,909,445 shares of common stock of the company, par value $0.001 per share ("common stock").

Paragon Technologies, Inc., and Paragon's director nominees Hesham M. Gad, Shawn M. Harpen, Jack H. Jacobs, and Samuel S. Weiser, will be the participants in the proxy solicitation. Mr. Gad, Executive Chairman of Paragon's Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of Paragon, and Messrs. Jacobs and Weiser, directors of Paragon, may be deemed to beneficially own the shares of the company's common stock held by Paragon. Ms. Harpen does not own beneficially or of record any securities of the company. Updated information regarding the participants and their direct and indirect interests in the solicitation, by security holdings or otherwise, will be included in Paragon's proxy statement and other materials filed with the SEC.