RiceBran Technologies announced that it has named William J. Keneally as Interim Chief Financial Officer, effective April 17, 2023. Mr. Keneally succeeds Todd Mitchell, who has resigned as Chief Financial Officer, effective April 17, 2023, to pursue a new professional opportunity. Mr. Keneally is an accomplished public company finance executive with significant and diverse international management and operating experience and proven abilities in strategy, acquisitions, divestitures, valuations, analysis, restructuring, IPO, financial and operating systems, taxation, treasury, corporate finance and accounting.

During his three-decade career, he has helped execute strategic exit transactions of more than $4 billion, in the aggregate, as well as multiple mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Keneally is also a Partner at CXO Partners, a new services firm of TechCXO, a provider of on-demand fractional and interim C-Suite executives for companies with annual revenuesin the range of $30 million to $500 million-plus. He previously served as Chief Accounting Officer of Flutterwave Inc., a venture-backed, African-focused provider of technology to enable individuals and businesses of all sizes to sell online, process receipts and payments, build financial products and use other specialized business tools.

In this role, Mr. Keneally directed the initial and ongoing US GAAP and IFRS accounting and audits of the Company's approximately 50 global subsidiaries. Mr. Keneally held a currently inactive CPA designation in the State of New York, and he received his Bachelor of Business Administration - Accounting Concentration from the University of Notre Dame.