Board of Directors | Lifecore Biomedical

Katrina L. Houde has served as a member of the Board since August 5, 2019. Ms. Houde is currently serving as an independent advisor to select food companies. In January 2024, Ms. Houde joined the board of directors for Brimich Logistics a privately held warehousing and logistics company in Canada. Ms. Houde served on the Board of Directors at SunOpta, Inc. (Nasdaq: STKL) from January 2000 through September 2024, where she also served as Chair of the Compensation Committee and as a member of the Audit Committee until November 2016. Ms. Houde served as Interim CEO for SunOpta, Inc. on two occasions, from October 2016 until March 2017 and again from January to March of 2019, and was instrumental in leading a major operational turnaround. Before and between her roles as Interim CEO of SunOpta, Inc., Ms. Houde had various consulting engagements in the food industry. Prior to becoming a food industry consultant, Ms. Houde was President of Cuddy Food Products, a division of Cuddy International Corp., from January 1999 to March 2000 and was Chief Operating Officer of Cuddy International Corp. from January 1996 to January 1999. She is a member of the Board of Directors of a number of private and charitable organizations. Ms. Houde holds an Honours Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Windsor.

Humberto C. Antunes has served as a member of the Board since August 2024. Mr. Antunes is an entrepreneur in healthcare, with 40 years of experience in the industry. Mr. Antunes has served as a Partner at Gore Range Capital LLC, a venture capital company focused on healthcare. Mr. Antunes served as CEO of Nestle Skin Health S.A., a subsidiary of Nestle S.A., from June 2014 to December 2016. From April 2004 to December 2016, Mr. Antunes served as CEO of Galderma Pharma S.A., a subsidiary of Nestle Skin Health S.A., where he also served as chairperson of its board of directors from June 2014 to December 2016. Prior to his time at Galderma, Mr. Antunes served as President, North America at Galderma Laboratories, L.P., from January 2001 to April 2004. For two decades, Mr. Antunes serves on the board of directors of the American Skin Association. Mr. Antunes received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Nebraska.

Mr. Aryeh has more than 25 years of equity investment experience focused on the life sciences industry. He is the Founder and Managing General Partner of JALAA Equities, LP, a private investment fund focused on the biotechnology and medical device sectors. He has served in such capacity since 1997. Mr. Aryeh currently serves on the board of directors of public companies Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated, a biopharmaceutical company (Nasdaq: LGND), Anebulo Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biotechnology company (Nasdaq: ANEB), and Orchestra BioMed Holdings, Inc., a life sciences company (Nasdaq: OBIO). He currently serves as chairman of Ligand Pharmaceuticals’ Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and as a member of its Human Capital Management and Compensation Committee, as Chairman of Anebulo Pharmaceuticals’ Audit and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees, and as Chairman of Orchestra BioMed’s Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, as well as a member of its Audit Committee. Since 2006, Mr. Aryeh has served on the board of directors or as a consultant to over a dozen public and private life sciences companies and charitable foundations, including the Novelion Therapeutics Inc. board from June 2012 to August 2018 and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s Therapeutics board from February 2011 to February 2018. Mr. Aryeh earned a B.A. in Economics, with honors, from Colgate University and is a member of the Omnicron Delta Epsilon Honor Society in Economics.

Paul H. Johnson has served as a member of the Board since August 2024. Mr. Johnson has significant CDMO experience, with over 30 years of broad and diverse executive management and board roles within the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. Mr. Johnson was President and CEO of DPT Laboratories, a CDMO focused on sterile and non-sterile topical products, and Renaissance Acquisition Holdings, a branded specialty generics company, from 2015 to 2016. He served as President of DPT from 2002 to 2015. Following the sale of DPT and Renaissance in June 2016, Mr. Johnson served as an Operating Partner at Ampersand Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on healthcare companies, from 2018 to March 2025. Mr. Johnson has been a member of the board of directors of Lil’ Drug Store Products since June 2005, where he also served on the compensation committee from November 2018 through December 2024 and joined the risk committee in January 2025. Mr. Johnson has also been a member of the board of directors of Tjoapack, a privately owned CDMO company, since December 2022, where he is the executive chairman and an advisor to its compensation committee. He has also served on the board of directors of Phosphorex, a privately owned CDMO company, since January 2023. Additionally, Mr. Johnson served on the board of directors of MedPharm Ltd., a privately owned CDMO company, from November 2018 to January 2024, where he served as executive chairman and was a member of its compensation committee from November 2020 to January 2024. Mr. Johnson received a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish and Speech Communication from the University of Texas El Paso, as well as a MBA from Southern Methodist University.

Paul Josephs has been the Chief Executive Officer of the Company and a member of the Board of Directors of the Company since May 20, 2024. Mr. Josephs previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer, and as a member of the board of directors, of Woodstock Sterile Solutions, a contract development and manufacturing company, from 2021 to April 2024. Prior to joining Woodstock, Mr. Josephs served as Head of CDMO – Global Business Development at Viatris Inc. (Nasdaq: VTRS) from 2016 to 2021. Mr. Josephs also served in numerous roles at DPT Laboratories from 1997 until it was acquired by Viatris, including most recently as Senior Vice President, Sales, Marketing and Corporate Development. Mr. Josephs received a B.A. from the University of Western Ontario in Canada.

Christopher S. Kiper has served as a member of the Board since January 2023. Mr. Kiper has served as a Co-Founder, Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer of Legion Partners Asset Management, LLC (“Legion”), an investment fund focused on accumulating large ownership stakes in undervalued U.S. small-cap companies, since April 2012, and at Legion’s predecessor entities from January 2010 to April 2012. Prior to co-founding Legion, he served as Vice President at Shamrock Capital Advisors, the alternative investment vehicle of the Disney family, where he served as Portfolio Manager of the Shamrock Activist Value Fund, a concentrated, long-only, activist fund, from April 2007 to January 2010. Before that, Mr. Kiper founded and operated the Ridgestone Small Cap Value Fund, a small-cap targeted activist fund in association with the Ridgestone Corporation, an investment firm, from June 2000 to June 2007. From 1998 to 2000, he served as the Director of Financial Planning at Global Crossing Ltd., a telecommunications company that provided computer networking services. Mr. Kiper began his career as an Auditor at Ernst & Young Global Limited, an international tax, consulting and advisory service, from 1994 to 1997. Mr. Kiper received a B.S.B.A. in Accounting from the University of Nebraska in 1993.

Matthew E. Korenberg has served as a member of the Board since August 2024. Mr. Korenberg is a seasoned executive with significant leadership experience in the healthcare industry. He has served as Palvella Therapeutics, Inc.'s (Nasdaq: PVLA) Chief Financial Officer since October 2024. Prior to joining Palvella, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer of public biotechnology company Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: LGND) since November 2022 and, prior to that, as the company’s Chief Financial Officer since August 2015. Prior to Ligand Pharmaceuticals, Mr. Korenberg was the founder, Chief Executive Officer, and a director of NeuroCircuit Therapeutics, a company focused on developing drugs to treat genetic disorders of the brain with an initial focus on Down syndrome. Prior to founding NeuroCircuit Therapeutics, Mr. Korenberg served as a Managing Director and member of the healthcare investment banking team at The Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) from July 1999 to August 2013. During his 14-year tenure at Goldman Sachs, Mr. Korenberg focused on advising and financing companies in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors and was based in New York, London and San Francisco. From May 2020 until October 2024, Mr. Korenberg served on the board of directors, including the audit and compensation committees, of Qualigen Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: QLGN), a public company that develops and manufactures oncology focused therapeutics and diagnostic products. He earned a B.B.A. in Finance and Accounting from the University of Michigan.

Nelson Obus has served as a member of the Board since October 2018. Mr. Obus is a co-founder, President, and Chief Investment Officer at Wynnefield Capital, Inc. which he co-founded with Joshua Landes in November 1992. Mr. Obus manages the firm, oversees its investment portfolio. Previously, from January 1990 until September 1992, he was the director of research at Schafer Capital Management, Inc. Prior to that, Mr. Obus was a director of sell side research in the equity sales department at Lazard Frères & Co. Before that, he was a manager at Massachusetts Department of Environmental Management. Mr. Obus holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from New York University and a Master of Arts in political science from Brandeis University.

Joshua E. Schechter has served as a member of the Board since October 2020. He is a private investor and public company director. Since 2015, he has served as a director of Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality, Inc. (NYSE: PRSU) (formerly known as Viad Corp.) a global attractions and hospitality company. Mr. Schechter served as a member of the Board of Directors of Bed Bath & Beyond (Nasdaq: BBBY) from May 2019 to September 2023, as Chairman of its Audit Committee. He also served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Support.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPRT), a leading provider of cloud-based software and services, from June 2016 to September 2021. From April 2018 to January 2020, he served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of SunWorks, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW), a premier provider of high-performance solar power solutions. From 2001 to June 2013, Mr. Schechter served as Managing Director of Steel Partners Ltd., a privately owned hedge fund sponsor, and from 2008 to June 2013, served as Co-President of Steel Partners Japan Asset Management, LP, a private company offering investment services. Mr. Schechter earned a Master of Public Administration in Professional Accounting and a Bachelor of Business Administration from The University of Texas at Austin.