Item 5.02 Departure of Directors of Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

On July 27, 2020, the Board of Directors appointed Mr. Murray G. Smith as Director of the Company. Mr. Smith's appointment will be effective August 1, 2020.





Mr. Murray G. Smith

Murray G. Smith is a licensed Certified Public Accountant with over twenty-seven years' accounting and finance leadership experience. Mr. Smith currently serves as the Divisional Chief Financial Officer of Craft Canning + Bottling, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Eastside Distilling, Inc., a NASDAQ company, and operates his own consulting practice focusing on financial process improvement, client training to perform accounting procedures, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and internal audit outsourcing. Mr. Smith is also a Certified Fraud Examiner.

Mr. Smith served as the Chief Financial Officer for Paulson Capital Corp., a NASDAQ company, from 2010-2014 where he co-led a reverse merger transaction of the parent company, while navigating the regulatory hurdles of the SEC, NASDAQ & FINRA in simultaneously spinning out the Broker-Dealer subsidiary to a new ownership group and creating a $10 Million liquidating trust. He also served as the Chief Financial Officer for Jewett-Cameron Trading Company, Ltd., a NASDAQ company, from 2009-2015. Mr. Smith's other previous employers have included Intel, Arthur Andersen and Teledyne. He is a graduate of the University of Washington, with a Bachelor of Arts degree awarded in 1993 in Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting. Mr. Smith held the following FINRA Licenses: Series 7, 27 and 66.






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