PURE Bioscience, Inc. Announces Board and Committee Appointments
January 27, 2021 at 08:00 am EST
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PURE Bioscience, Inc. announced the addition of three new members to the Board of Directors with the election of Kristin A. Taylor, David M. Rendall and Tom Myers. Ms. Taylor and Mr. Rendall also will serve on the audit and compensation committees of the Board of Directors. PURE also announced the appointment of Dr. Scott Harris and Dr. Martin Wiedmann to the Scientific Advisory Board. New Members of Board of Directors: Kristin A. Taylor is an accomplished technology executive with over 20 years of experience that includes VP and Director roles at leading tech companies. In May 2020, Ms. Taylor was named President and CEO of ImageWare Systems, Inc. David M. Rendall is an attorney and licensed real estate broker in the state of California. Mr. Rendall has been the broker and owner of RE/MAX of Santa Clarita, RE/MAX of Valencia, and RE/MAX Gateway since February 2014. Mr. Rendall manages approximately 175 agents and has annual sales of about $1 billion. Tom Myers has served as the Chief Operating Officer of PURE since October 2018. He previously served as Executive Vice President, Technical Support Services and in other roles after joining PURE in 2011. Mr. Myers has over 40 years of food industry experience focusing on operations management, quality control and assurance, research and development, product and process development, plant design and construction, food safety and regulatory compliance. Prior to joining PURE, Mr. Myers served as the President and Principal of Idaho Milk Products, where he built a $105 million green field dairy proteins plant and launched a worldwide business with annual revenues in excess of $200 million. New Members of Scientific Advisory Board: Dr. Scott Harris is an accomplished environmental health and safety professional with over 30 years of experience in the private sector, in federal and state regulatory agencies and more recently as an adjunct professor of Environmental Science at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He currently holds the position of President of Environmental Quality Management, a national environmental consulting, engineering and remediation service provider to the government and private sectors. Dr. Martin Wiedmann is currently the Gellert Family Professor of Food Safety at Cornell University. He has authored over 400 peer-reviewed publications, which have been cited over 25,000 times. He and his team have received multiple awards from leading institutions for advancing food safety for over two decades. He received his doctorate in Veterinary Medicine from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and his Ph.D. in food science from Cornell University.
PURE Bioscience, Inc. is focused on developing and commercializing its proprietary antimicrobial products primarily in the food safety arena. The Company provides solutions to combat the health and environmental problems of pathogen and hygienic control. Its technology platform is based on patented, stabilized ionic silver, and its initial products contain silver dihydrogen citrate (SDC). SDC is a broad-spectrum, non-toxic antimicrobial agent, which offers residual protection and formulates with other compounds. The Company offers PURE Hard Surface as a food contact surface sanitizer and disinfectant to restaurant chains, food processors and food transportation companies. It also offers PURE Control as a direct food contact processing aid. It also manufactures and sells SDC-based products for end use, products preserved with SDC and SDC as a raw material ingredient for manufacturing use. The Company sells its products directly and indirectly through third-party distributors.