Amyris, Inc. announced the appointment of Kathleen Valiasek, formerly Chief Financial Officer, to Chief Business Officer effective immediately. Valiasek will assume a dedicated role of furthering the company's strategy of collaborating with large, well-funded partners to grow the company's business. Simultaneously, she will continue to oversee the company's financing and investor relations activities.

The company also announced that it has appointed Jonathan Wolter as Interim CFO. In this capacity, Wolter will focus primarily upon and assist with completing the Company's audit procedures and process of finalizing and filing its 2018 Annual Report for first-quarter 2019 to bring Amyris into compliance with Securities and Exchange Commission regulations and Nasdaq listing requirements as quickly as possible. Since 2004 he has served as a partner with FLG Partners where he has been retained as CFO by the boards of multiple public and private companies.