Company: BOF
Filing Date: 2025-11-14
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001493152-25-023449
Chunk: 4

Company: BranchOut Food Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-11-14
Form: DEF 14A
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 60 |     | Chief                                    
 Financial Officer and Director           |
| Deven       
 Jain        |     |  22 |     | Director                                 |
| Byron       
 Riché Jones |     |  42 |     | Director                                 |
| Lindsey     
 L. Schwartz |     |  58 |     | Director                                 |
| Greg        
 Somerville  |     |  58 |     | Director                                 |

Biographies of Directors and Officers

Eric Healy.Eric has been our Chief Executive Officer since inception in November 2017. Mr. Healy brings over 13 years of experience as a mechanical engineer, product development engineer, and a food entrepreneur. Prior to founding BranchOut, Mr. Healy was the owner/partner of the No-Bake Cookie Company, running all aspects of the company. Mr. Healy served as a Senior Mechanical Engineer at Stratos Product Development, Synapse Product Development (both consumer product development engineering firms) as well as a Mechanical Engineer at the Boeing Company. Eric earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Oregon State University.

Mr. Healy’s experience in the food industry and as our Chief Executive Officer qualify him to serve as one of our directors.

John Dalfonsi. Johnwas appointed to serve as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer on January 10, 2024, and has served as a director of ours since June 21, 2023. Since 1995, Mr. Dalfonsi has closed public and private equity and debt financings, merger and acquisitions, advisory and fairness opinion transactions and Nasdaq and NYSE/AMEX IPOs. He has worked with companies in the healthcare, industrial, consumer, technology, cleantech and resource sectors , bringing a wealth of experience to the Company. During this period, Mr. Dalfonsi has spent the bulk of his career at ROTH Capital Partners, LLC and Paulson Investment Company, LLC. Mr. Dalfonsi has been the Managing Member at Eagle Vision Fund G/P, LLC since April 2022, was previously a Senior Managing Director at Paulson Investment Company, LLC from January 2021 through April 2022, and a Managing Director at Roth Capital Partners from February 2002 to December 2020. Mr. Dalfonsi earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Northwestern University and his Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Mr. Dalfonsi’s business and financial experience and expertise qualify him