Company: SWAGW
Filing Date: 2025-04-14
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001213900-25-031596
Chunk: 1761

Company: Stran & Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-14
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 9
Chunk 1761
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 of directors due to his deep knowledge of Stran and his long executive and board experience with us since his co-founding of
the Company.

Andrew
Shape is our co-founder and since 1996 has served as our President and director, and as our Chief Executive Officer since January
2020. From July 2018 to February 2021, Mr. Shape also served as the Chief Executive Officer and President and a director of Long Blockchain
Corp. (formerly OTC Pink: LBCC), in connection with a business co-managed with us for its subsidiary Stran Loyalty Group Inc., a Delaware
corporation. From June 2018 through December 2021, Mr. Shape served as a director for Naked Brand Group Limited (formerly Nasdaq: NAKD)
until the closing of its business combination with Cenntro Electric Group Limited (Nasdaq: CENN). Prior to forming Stran, from August
1995 to September 1996, Mr. Shape worked at Copithorne & Bellows Public Relations (a Porter Novelli company) as an Account Executive.
Mr. Shape holds a BA degree from the University of New Hampshire. We believe that Mr. Shape is qualified to serve on our board of directors
due to his deep knowledge of Stran, his industry expertise, and his experience as a director on other Nasdaq-listed companies.

David
Browner has been our Chief Financial Officer since March 2023 and was our Interim Chief Financial Officer from July 2022 to March
2023. From July 2021 to July 2022, Mr. Browner was our Controller. From November 2015 to July 2021, Mr. Browner was the Company’s
Accounting Manager. From July 2012 to November 2015, Mr. Browner was a staff accountant for the Company. Mr. Browner has a Master of Business
Administration in Accounting and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts Lowell. 

John Audibert has been our Vice
President of Growth and Strategic Initiatives since March 2020. Mr. Audibert has over 12 years of investment banking, corporate finance
and strategy consulting experience. He has been the President of Josselin Capital Advisors, Inc., a company wholly-owned by John Audibert
(“JCA”), since October 2019, which provides consulting services to high-growth businesses. He was formerly President of Woodland
Way Advisors,