RiceBran Technologies announced that James Flynn and Georgina Russell have been appointed to the Company's Board of Directors, effective immediately. Each of Mr. Flynn and Ms. Russell is expected to serve on the Company?s Audit Committee and Compensation Committee, and Ms. Russell is expected to serve on the Company?s Nominating and Governance Committee. Both Mr. Flynn and Ms. Russell qualify as independent directors.

Mr. Flynn is currently the Managing Member and Portfolio Manager of Nerium Capital LLC, an investment adviser he founded in 2021. He also currently serves on the Board of Directors of ARCA Biopharma, MEI Pharma, and Axiom Health (private). From 2017 to 2018, Mr. Flynn worked as a therapeutics analyst at Aptigon Capital (a Citadel Company), an investment firm.

Prior to that, from 2003 to 2017, Mr. Flynn served in various roles at Amici Capital, LLC, an investment firm, including healthcare portfolio manager (2008 to 2017). From 2002 to 2003, Mr. Flynn worked in the credit research/high yield group at Putnam Investments, an investment firm. He earned an S.B. degree in Management Science with a concentration in Finance and a minor in Economic Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Mr. Flynn is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Charterholder. Ms. Russell is the Managing Partner of Chicane GP LLC and the Portfolio Manager of Chicane Opportunities Fund LP, roles she has held since January 2019. From January 2015 through December 2018, she was a Portfolio Manager at Willett Advisors, LLC ("Willett") where she managed a long-term, concentrated fund of publicly traded securities.

Prior to Willett, from April 2012 through July 2014, Ms. Russell was a Managing Director at Smithwood Advisers L.P. ("Smithwood"), a Los Angeles based investment advisory firm. Earlier in her career, Ms. Russell worked as an Analyst at Lonestar Capital Management, LLC in San Francisco, from January 2009 through April 2012. From August 2007 to December 2008, Ms. Russell did a first stint at Smithwood in their Hong Kong office.

Before establishing her career in investing, Ms. Russell was a software engineer. She architected and authored cloud-based distributed systems. Ms. Russell was awarded three patents for her work. Ms. Russell graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1999 with a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in Computer Science.

She received an MBA with honors from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 2007.