Company: JSDA
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form Type: 10-K/A
Source: 0001641172-25-007974
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Company: JONES SODA CO.
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form: 10-K/A
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 that, in February 2017, Mr. Carimi Co-Founded and served as Co-Chief Executive Officer of Stryve Biltong, a healthy snack company, from February 2017 to December 2019. From 2011 until 2015, Mr. Carimi was a professional football player playing for the Atlanta Falcons, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Chicago Bears. Mr. Carimi received his Bachelor of Science in engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Directors

Paul Norman, Chairman of the Board of Directors

Paul Norman has been a director of the Company since August 2019 and has served as the Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors since March 15, 2022. In addition, from October 25, 2024 to February 5, 2025, Mr. Norman served as Interim Chief Executive Officer of the Company and from November 12, 2024 until February 5, 2025, he served as Interim Chief Financial Officer of the Company. Mr. Norman is a global consumer products leader with over 30 years of experience creating brand and shareholder value. He currently serves as a director on the board of directors of Simply Better Brands Corp. (TSX: SBBC) (OTCQB: PKANF), a platform with diversified assets in the plant-based and wellness consumer product categories. Mr. Norman previously served as the President of CHW Acquisition Corporation (Nasdaq: CHWA), a blank check company formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses, from February 2021 to August 2022, when such company completed a business combination transaction. From 2019 to 2020, he served as chairman and CEO of HeavenlyRx, a privately held CBD wellness company. Prior to HeavenlyRx, Mr. Norman spent three decades at the Kellogg Company, the multinational food-manufacturing company, where he served as President of Kellogg’s North American business from 2015 to 2018, and Chief Growth Officer from 2013 to 2015. In addition to his time at Kellogg, from 2016 to 2018 Mr. Norman served as a member of the Grocery Manufacturers Association board of directors, where he served on the executive committee. He also served as a Trustee of the Food Marketing Institute Foundation board from 2016 to 2018. Mr. Norman received a bachelor’s degree