PICO Holdings Inc. announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Raymond V. Marino II, who joined the PICO Board last month after being recommended by an institutional shareholder, to serve as the non-executive Chairman of PICO's Board of Directors. Since 2013, Mr. Marino has been in the investment advisory business where he is involved in researching, evaluating and negotiating a variety of investments for his personal portfolio and third party investors involving real estate and non-real estate investments, and has completed buy-side and sell-side real estate advisory assignments for third parties in excess of $130 million.