On July 12, 2023, the Board of AppHarvest, Inc. appointed Jonathan Webb to serve as the Company?s Chief Strategy Officer in lieu of his position as Chief Executive Officer and Anthony Martin to serve as the Company?s Chief Executive Officer in lieu of his position as Chief Operating Officer, effective immediately. Mr. Webb is the founder of the Company and has served as the Company?s President and Chief Executive Officer and as a member of AppHarvest?s Board since the Company?s incorporation in January 2018. Mr. Webb ceased serving as AppHarvest?s President in January 2021.

From 2014 to February 2017, Mr. Webb served as contract support with Archetype USA for the U.S. Army Office of Energy Initiatives through the U.S. Department of Defense. Mr. Martin has served as a director of the Company since October 2022 and Chief Operating Officer since January 2023. Mr. Martin has served as a member of the board of directors of the Fruit & Vegetable Dispute Resolution Corporation, a non-profit, member-based dispute resolution organization in the fresh produce industry, since May 2018.

Previously, from December 2007 to October 2019, Mr. Martin served as Chief Financial Officer of Windset Farms, a controlled environment agriculture producer. On July 11, 2023, the Board of Directors of AppHarvest, Inc. appointed Gary Broadbent to serve as the Company?s Chief Legal Officer and Chief Restructuring Officer effective immediately in addition to his position as Corporate Secretary. Mr. Broadbent previously served as Deputy General Counsel of the Company in 2021 and 2022, as General Counsel of the Company in 2022 and 2023, and as Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary of the Company in 2022 and 2023.

In 2022, he separately served as Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, and Assistant Corporate Secretary to Rubicon Technologies, Inc. Prior to the foregoing roles, from 2019 to 2020 he served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary, and from 2020 to 2021 he served as Chief Wind-Down Officer, General Counsel, and Secretary, at GenCanna Global, Inc. Prior to that role, from 2018 to 2019 he served as General Counsel, Vice President of Human Resources, and Secretary of Mission Coal Company. Mr. Broadbent also previously provided consulting services to the Company pursuant to a certain consulting agreement between the Company and Mr. Broadbent, effective December 1, 2022. For the consulting services, Mr. Broadbent received compensation totaling $40,000 in the year ended December 31, 2022.

For the year ended December 31, 2023, the Company has paid Mr. Broadbent $200,000 for consulting services performed to date, and no additional payments are anticipated pursuant to the consulting agreement. There is no family relationship between Mr. Broadbent and any director or executive officer of the Company and no arrangement or understanding exists between Mr. Broadbent and any other person pursuant to which Mr. Broadbent was selected as an officer of the Company.