Company: BIAF
Filing Date: 2025-05-05
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001641172-25-008629
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Company: bioAffinity Technologies, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-05
Form: S-1/A
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 defining and advancing company goals and overcoming obstacles impeding corporate success. Prior to her position at bioAffinity Technologies, Ms. Zannes founded The Zannes Firm focusing on strategic solutions for private industry in the medical, environmental, and energy fields. In her current capacity as the Company’s CEO and President, she has built a team of award-winning scientists and executives who are advancing breakthrough oncology-focused diagnostics and therapeutics.

Ms. Zannes was President of the Energy Recovery Council, the national trade group for the $10 billion waste-to-energy industry, and General Manager of ECOS Corporation, a subsidiary of Burlington Environmental. Ms. Zannes also served as a project manager at Wheelabrator Technologies, Inc. where she led project teams that developed, negotiated, and financed the company’s renewable energy generation facilities. Ms. Zannes began her career as a journalist, working for Voice of America and the Associated Press. Before entering the business world, she served as a legislative aide specializing in energy policy and law for Congressman Charles Wilson (D-TX). She is licensed to practice law in New Mexico. She has been awarded Lifetime Achievement Awards by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Earth Engineering Center Award from the WTE Council of Columbia University.

She is the co-founder of two engineering research centers at Columbia University. Ms. Zannes received her BA in Journalism from the University of New Mexico and her JD from the University of Puget Sound in Washington State. We believe Ms. Zannes should serve as a director of the Company because of her experience as a lawyer and business woman skilled in identifying, prioritizing and managing both the risks and rewards of business opportunities and her proven record of assembling and motivating award-winning teams of professionals focused on strategic corporate growth.

James Michael Edwards - Chief Financial Officer

James Edwards was appointed as our Chief Financial Officer effective November 5, 2024, after serving as our Interim Chief Financial Officer since September 2024. Mr. Edwards has more than 25 years of experience in corporate finance and accounting. Since 2009, Mr. Edwards has provided consulting services through his company J. Michael Edwards, LLC. Mr. Edwards served as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer from April 2014 until November 2016 and again from June 2017 to May 1, 2023. He was the CFO for CytoBioscience, Inc. from 2016 until 2017 and previously he was the CFO for OncoVista Innovative Therapies, Inc. He was an assistant