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Effective September 13, 2021, the Board of Directors (“Board”) of Predictive Oncology Inc. (the “Company”) elected Raymond F. Vennare to the Board. He was chosen to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Richard Gabriel in May 2021. As a Class III Director, Mr. Vennare’s term will expire at the 2021 annual meeting of the Company’s stockholders.
Mr. Vennare brings more than thirty years of experience to his work as an accomplished senior executive, board director and biotechnology entrepreneur. As a professional who has built and managed companies on behalf of institutional investors, private foundations and research institutions, he is recognized as an expert in the practice of company creation, technology commercialization, business development and corporate governance. Mr. Vennare is currently (and has been since 2015), Chairman of the Board and CEO of Cvergenx, Inc., a genomic informatics company developing decision-support tools for radiation oncology, and since 2019 has been on the Board of Directors of Cvergenx Technologies India Private, Ltd. He also serves as a trusted and confidential advisor to clients as diverse as nationally ranked universities and philanthropic foundations to multi-national publicly traded companies and early-stage start-ups. Previously Mr. Vennare was Co-founder, President and CEO of ThermalTherapeutic Systems, Inc. (Medical Device); President and Chief Executive Officer of ImmunoSite, Inc. (Diagnostics); Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, TissueInformatics, Inc. (Bioinformatics); Founder, President and Partner in VSInteractive (Information Technology) and, Founder and President of the Fine Art Inventory Network (On-line Commerce). From June 2018 to December 2020, he was Vice Chairman of Guangzhou INDA Biotechnology Company, Ltd.
Mr. Vennare has a Master’s Degree in Business and Ethics from Duquesne University; a Master’s Degree in Art History and Museum Studies from Case Western Reserve University and a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Pittsburgh.
In recognition of the services Mr. Vennare will provide to the Company as a member of the Board, he was issued 5,000 shares of common stock from the Company’s Amended and Restated 2012 Stock Incentive Plan simultaneously with his election.
A press release announcing the appointment of the new director is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.
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| 99.1 | Press Release dated September 15, 2021 | |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document) |
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| Predictive Oncology Inc. | ||
| Date: September 15, 2021 | By: | /s/ Bob Myers |
| Bob Myers | ||
| Chief Financial Officer | ||