Joseph Pandolfino, Chief Executive Officer
 Mr. Pandolfino founded 22nd Century Limited, LLC in 1998 and has over 15 years experience in all aspects of the tobacco industry, including 12 years with genetically-engineered tobacco. He served as our President since our inception and as our Chief Executive Officer since April 2010. Mr. Pandolfino oversees our operations, strategy and product development. Mr. Pandolfino holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from Medaille College and a Master of Business Administration Degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
|
Henry Sicignano III, President & Secretary
 Mr. Sicignano has served as our President since April, 2010. From August 2005 to April 2009, Mr. Sicignano served as a General Manager and as the Director of Corporate Marketing for NOCO Energy Corp., a petroleum products company; and from March 2003 to July 2005, as Vice President of Kittinger Furniture Company, Inc., a fine furniture manufacturer. From February 1997 through July 2002, he served as Vice President and Marketing Director of Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, a specialty tobacco company, prior to the sale of that company to R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company for $356 million in 2002. Mr. Sicignano holds a Bachelors of Arts Degree in Government from Harvard College and a Master of Business Administration Degree from Harvard University.
|
Michael Moynihan, Ph.D., Vice President of R&D
 Dr. Moynihan has served as our Vice President of R&D since 2007 and as a consultant for us since 1999. From 2001 to 2006 he served as Director of Biotechnology Development at Fundación Chile and from 1995 to 2000 as Senior Project Director at InterLink Biotechnologies LLC. He previously served as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Osaka University, Japan; a Postdoctoral Associate in the Section of Plant Biology, Cornell University; and a Postdoctoral Associate at the Center for Agricultural Molecular Biology, Rutgers University. Dr. Moynihan holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology from Brown University and a Master’s Degree and Ph.D. in Biology from Harvard University.
|
C. Anthony Rider, Chief Financial Officer
 Mr. Rider has served as our Chief Financial Officer since 2007. He has also served since 2007 as Chief Financial Officer of Locke Acquisition Group LLC, which is unrelated to us. Mr. Rider served as the Chief Financial Officer of Astronics Corporation, a public company, from 2000 to 2005, and as the Chief Financial Officer of IIMAK, a private-equity sponsored international manufacturing company, from 2005 to 2007. He is a member of the AICPA and the New York State Society of CPAs. From 1973 to 2000, Mr. Rider was employed by Ernst & Young, where he specialized in working with entrepreneurial growth companies, and was the partner responsible for developing and administering Ernst & Young’s entrepreneurial services practice for Upstate New York and Western Pennsylvania. Mr. Rider holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from Canisius College.
|
