Navidea Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that effective July 11, 2023, Amit Bhalla resigned as a director of the Company. Mr. Bhalla’s resignation from the Board of Directors (the “Board”) did not result from any disagreement with the Company on any matter relating to the Company’s operations, policies or practices. The Board appointed Dana J. Moss as a Director, effective July 11, 2023.

Ms. Moss will serve as a Director with a term of office expiring at the Company’s 2025 annual meeting of stockholders. The Board also appointed Ms. Moss to serve on the Board’s Audit Committee. Dana J Moss, JD joins Navidea’s Board of Directors with demonstrated leadership and legal expertise within innovative organizations focused on life sciences and technology driven products.

Moss’s career and expertise within both private and public entities bolsters the Board’s ability to guide business strategy, mitigate risks and deliver stockholder value. Dana J Moss most recently served as the Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary at Sequencing Health, Inc., where she was responsible for all legal, regulatory, compliance, and intellectual property matters, led strategy related to fundraising, mergers and acquisitions, and oversaw finance, corporate governance and human resources functions. Her previous experience includes serving as General Counsel, Corporate Secretary at Genapsys, Inc., as a Partner at Cooley LLP with a focus on Commercial Litigation, Program Manager at Mantech International Corporation, and as a Special Agent and Operations Officer of the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations.

Ms. Moss earned a Bachelor of Science at the United Air Force Academy, where she was a distinguished graduate, a Master of Arts in Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin as a USAFA Graduate School Scholarship recipient, and a Juris Doctorate at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, where she graduated cum laude. Dana is a 2021 Fellow of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity and has served on the organizing Board of MissionLink, a nonprofit membership organization for C-level executives of high growth technology companies.