PURE Bioscience, Inc. announced the appointment of Tom Y. Lee to its Board of Directors. Lee will also serve on the company's Audit Committee. Lee, who is Chairman and CEO of Swabplus, Inc., has been a significant, active investor in PURE since 2005 and directly holds approximately 7% of PURE's shares outstanding.

Lee is a former board member and audit committee chairman at First Continental Bank (which merged with United Commercial Bank in 2003). He has been a CPA since 1983.