Company: OCEA
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001493152-25-008279
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Company: Ocean Biomedical, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: DEF 14A
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 Ms. Griffith is well qualified to serve as a director due to her significant experience in government relations and politics and years of experience working with companies in both the private and public sectors.

Mr. Suren Ajjarapuis a founder, Chairman/CEO, of Scienture Holdings, Inc(NASDAQ: SCNX), Chairman/CEO (NASDAQ: PWUP) Board Member of (NASDAQ: OCEA), Chairman of Danam Health, Inc. ( https://www.danamhealth.com/). Mr. Ajjarapu is an entrepreneur with leadership experience, extensive executive management, and corporate board experience. Mr. Ajjarapu is an accomplished corporate strategist, fundraiser, and marketer. His vision and expertise in business performance have driven notable enterprise growth in the Biofuels and Information Technology sectors. Offering a rare blend of creative and operational strengths, Mr. Ajjarapu has demonstrated the capability to deal with cross-cultural, socio-economic, and geo-political boundaries as well as to expand or launch new businesses on a global basis with a keen sense of time to market. His strategic approach to developing and executing growth strategies, reducing cost basis, P&L oversight, maintaining business competitiveness, building world-class organizations, and increasing shareholders’ value is reflected in his work as Founder, President, and Director of Several NASDAQ companies.

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Mr. Michael L. Petersonhas served as a director of the Company since September 2021. Mr. Peterson has served as a member of the Board of Directors and as of October 2024, as audit committee chair. Since May 2022, Mr. Peterson has served as CEO and director of Lafayette Energy Corp, an oil and gas development company. Between October 2023 and July 2024, Mr. Peterson served as President and CEO, and from July 2022 through July 2024, as a member of the Board of Directors, of Trio Petroleum Corp. (NYSE American: TPET), an oil and gas company with assets in the State of California. Mr. Peterson served as the president of Nevo Motors, Inc. from December 2020 to June 2023, which was established to commercialize a range extender generator technology for the heavy-duty electric vehicle market but is currently non-operational. Since February 2021, Mr. Peterson has served on the board of directors and as the Chairman of the Audit Committee of Indonesia Energy Corporation Limited (NYSE American: INDO). Mr. Peterson previously served as the president of the Taipei Taiwan