Cadiz Inc. announce that Susan Kennedy, Executive Chair of the Board of Directors, will step into a full-time role as the Company's Chief Executive Officer beginning January 1, 2024. Scott Slater, who has served as President and CEO of Cadiz since 2011, plans to continue to serve as a senior advisor to the Company. Scott Slater is a legendary water rights attorney with unmatched depth in some of the most complex and historic water transactions in United States' history.

Slater was appointed President of Cadiz in 2011 and named CEO in 2013 while also maintaining his shareholder position at Brownstein, Hyatt, Farber, Schreck, ranked as one of the best law firms in the U.S. on Water Law and Land Use. The Board thanks Scott for leading the design and approval of the largest fully integrated groundwater conservation and storage project in California, and successfully defending the permits through a decade of litigation, appeals and regulatory challenges. Slater innovatively led the company's acquisition of pipeline assets from El Paso Natural Gas in 2020, setting the Company up to be first in the world to convert fossil fuel pipelines to transport water.

In 2022, Slater led Cadiz' acquisition of ATEC Water Systems, a water filtration company with market-leading filtration technology able to address the rapidly increasing threat of groundwater contamination from iron and manganese, arsenic, nitrates, Chromium-6 and other chemicals. Kennedy, who has served as Cadiz's Executive Chair since 2021, will take over as full time CEO in January 2024. Slater plans to continue supporting Cadiz in 2024 in a consulting capacity, focused on completing numerous transactions related to the water supply and storage project, ATEC Systems, green hydrogen development and other commercial opportunities.