On March 27, 2015, the Board of Directors of the Applied Minerals, Inc. elected Bradley Tirpak as a director to serve until the 2015 annual meeting of stockholders. Bradley Tirpak, 44, is a professional investor with twenty years of investing experience who has been a portfolio manager at Credit Suisse First Boston, Caxton Associates, and Sigma Capital Management. He is currently the Managing Member of various investment partnerships.