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ABOUT GROVER T. WICKERSHAM
 Mr. Wickersham, Chairman of the Board. Mr. Wickersham is a private investor, as well as co-owner of Triangle T Ranch, a 13,000 acre water rich farm that has been in his family for four generations. Triangle T Ranch is a major grower of alfalfa seed for the company, and a valued longtime customer. Grover also serves as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Purisima, a mutual fund and, although he is no longer employed as an attorney, is of counsel to Wickersham & Murphy, P.C., the successor to a law firm he founded in 1986. Mr. Wickersham holds an A.B. from the University of California at Berkeley, an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a J.D. from University of California, Hastings College of the Law.
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ABOUT MARK S. GREWAL
 Mr. Grewal was appointed our President, Chief Executive Officer and a director in October 2009. Beginning in February 2009 until October 2009, he provided advisory services to S&W Seed Company, our predecessor general partnership. He also has served as the Chief Executive Officer, President and Farm Manager of Triangle T Partners, LLC since August 2009 and has held the same positions with Triangle T Ranch, Inc. since February 2009, both located in Chowchilla, California. Since January 2010, he also has held the title of President of our subsidiary, Seed Holding, LLC. From January 2006 until he joined TTR, Mr. Grewal was the principal of Grewal Consulting, in Lemoore, California, where he addressed water, land, drainage and fertilizing, herbicide and insecticide management issues. From 1999 to February 2005, Mr. Grewal served as the Vice President of Ranching/Director of JG Boswell, Co., in Corcoran, California, a very large grower of agricultural crops. Mr. Grewal is Chairman of the Board of California Ammonia Co. and privately held TTP; he is the Chairman of the Plant Science Advisory Council of California State University and a member of the Leadership Committee of California State University, Fresno. Mr. Grewal earned a B.S. in Agronomy from California State University, Fresno, and an M.A. in Leadership from Saint Mary’s College, Moraga, California.
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ABOUT MATTHEW K. SZOT
 Mr. Szot has served as our Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer since March 2010. Mr. Szot brings a wealth of knowledge in developing and implementing financial and operational process improvements, technical accounting and finance, SEC reporting and compliance. Since February 2007, Mr. Szot has served as the Chief Financial Officer for Cardiff Partners, LLC, a strategic consulting company that provides executive financial services to various publicly traded and privately held companies. Prior thereto, from 2003 to December 2006, Mr. Szot served as Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of Rip Curl, Inc., a market leader in wetsuit and action sports apparel products. Mr. Szot oversaw all aspects of finance, accounting, legal, real estate and information technology. He also spearheaded a multi-store retail expansion and was instrumental in the re-engineering of processes throughout the organization. From 1996 to 2003, Mr. Szot was a Certified Public Accountant with KPMG in the San Diego and Chicago offices and served as an Audit Manager for various publicly traded companies. Mr. Szot graduated with High Honors from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana with a Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural Economics/Accountancy. Mr. Szot is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of California.
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ABOUT DANIEL Z. KARSTEN
 Mr. Karsten was appointed to the position of Vice President of Operations in February 2010, maintaining overall responsibility for the company’s manufacturing operations. Responsibilities include operations, engineering and design and start-up of the company’s manufacturing facilities.
Mr. Karsten has been a part our team since August 2008 and served as Plant Manager for our Five Points facility. From March 2005, Mr. Karsten was Production Manager and Safety Officer for Colusa County Canning, a canning and industrial bulk tomato processing company located in Williams, California, where his responsibilities included operations, maintenance, and compliance of facility safety and environmental requirements.
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ABOUT MICHAEL CULHANE
 Mr. Culhane was elected to our board in December 2009. In 2002, he founded Oakwood Global Finance LLP, London, England, a financial services company specializing in valuing, trading and managing investments in financial assets that are exposed to real estate and consumer risk. He has served as the managing partner of Oakwood since inception and has held the position of chief executive officer since 2003. Mr. Culhane has extensive board experience, currently sitting on the board of seven-non-U.S. companies and one U.S. company, none of which is publicly traded in the U.S. He holds a BSc (Econ) from the London School of Economics.
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ABOUT MICHAEL M. FLEMING
 Mr. Fleming was elected to our board in October 2009. Mr. Fleming has been an attorney with Lane Powell PC in Seattle, Washington, specializing in real estate, dispute resolution, securities and environmental matters, since February 2000. He has also been the president and owner of Kidcentre, Inc., a company in the business of providing child care services in Seattle, since July 1988. Since April 1985, he has also been the president and owner of Fleming Investment Co., an investment company. Since 1997, he has served as a director (including serving as interim chairman of the board from June 2008 to June 2009) of Jones Soda Co., a developer, marketer, producer and distributor of premium beverages, located in Seattle. Mr. Fleming holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from University of Washington and a law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.
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ABOUT MICHAEL N. NORDSTROM
Mr. Nordstrom was elected to our board in October 2009. Since 1982, he has been a practicing lawyer, currently with offices in Corcoran, California, where he specializes in water and agricultural law. He serves as general and special counsel to a number of water agencies in the San Joaquin Valley. Since 1999, Mr. Nordstrom has also been a real estate broker specializing in agricultural real estate. He grew up on a small family farm and now operates one. Mr. Nordstrom serves on the boards of both TTP and TTR. Mr. Nordstrom earned a B.S. in Agricultural Management from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California, 1979 and his J.D. from Santa Clara University School of Law in 1982.
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ABOUT CHARLES B. SEIDLER – Director
Charles was elected to the Board in June 2010. In July 2010, he joined Nomura Securities as a senior member of a proprietary trading group in New York City. For the last three years, he held various senior positions at Deutsche Bank AG in Tokyo, Japan, including Head of JPY/UST International Sales (from March 2009 until his departure in June 2010), JPY Flow Trader (from September 2008 to March 2009) and Rates Proprietary Trader from January 2007 to September 2008. Between March 2003 and January 2007, Charles was Co-Portfolio Manager of Caxton Associates, L.L.C., where he focused on macro and relative value trading with a particular focus on the Japanese markets. Currently and over the last five years, he has served on numerous corporate boards. Charles is a graduate of Colgate University where he earned a Masters of Arts degree.
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