Company: BSFC
Filing Date: 2025-06-23
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001641172-25-015976
Chunk: 428

Company: Blue Star Foods Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-06-23
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 428
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    12, 2021

    Timothy
    McLellan
     
    68
     
    Director
     
    April
    12, 2021

    Trond
    Ringstad
     
    57
     
    Director
     
    April
    12, 2021

Our
directors hold office for three-year terms and until their successors have been elected and qualified. Our officers are elected by the
board of directors and serve at the discretion of the board of directors.

The
principal occupation and business experience during the past five years for our executive officer and directors is as follows:

John
Keeler has been Executive Chairman of the Board since the effectiveness of the Merger. Mr. Keeler founded John Keeler & Co.,
d/b/a Blue Star Foods in May 1995 and served as its Executive Chairman of the Board since inception during which time he grew the company
to become one of the leading marketers of imported blue swimming crab meat in the United States. Mr. Keeler built sales over the past
20 years to $35+ million annually through 2017. Mr. Keeler oversees procurement as well as operating facilities in the Philippines and
Indonesia. Mr. Keeler is an executive committee member of the National Fisheries Institute-Crab Council and a founding member of the
Indonesia and Philippines crab meat processors associations. Mr. Keeler received his BS in Economics from Rutgers University in 1995
and attended Harvard Business School executive programs in supply chain management, negotiations and marketing in 2005. Mr. Keeler’s
extensive experience in the industry led to the decision to appoint him to the board of directors.

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Nubar
Herian has been a director since the effectiveness of the Merger. Since 2014, Mr. Herian has been the chief executive officer
of Monaco Group Holdings, a privately-held company headquartered in Miami, Florida, which owns and operates Monaco Foods, Inc., an importer,
exporter and distributor of premium gourmet foods from around the world. Since 1995, Mr. Herian has been the commercial director of Casa
de Fruta Caracas, a privately-held company based in Caracas, Venezuela, that focuses on importing foods. Mr. Herian is also the president
of Lunar Enterprises, Corp. (“Lunar”), a holding company for his family’s public and private equity investments and
real estate holdings. Mr. Herian received his BS in Mechanical Engineering