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Keith
Brackpool is a co-founder of Cadiz Inc. and has served as a member of Cadiz' Board of Directors since September 1986 and as President and Chief Executive Officer since December 1991. Mr. Brackpool assumed the role of Chairman of the Board of Cadiz in 2001. Mr. Brackpool has extensive
expertise in Western water policy. He
was appointed by former California Governor Gray Davis to
co-chair his Agriculture and Water Transition Task Force and also served on the Governor’s Commission on Building for the 21st Century, a diverse panel that developed long-term policy proposals to meet the
state’s future water, housing, technology and transportation needs. In
addition to his position at Cadiz Inc., since 1989, Mr. Brackpool has been a
principal of 1334 Partners L.P., a partnership that owns commercial real estate. Previously, Mr. Brackpool served as director and chief executive officer of North American
Operations for Albert Fisher Group, a multi-billion dollar food company.
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O'Donnell Iselin II joined Cadiz as its Chief Financial Officer in October
2005. From October 2004 until his appointment
as Cadiz' Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Iselin served as Treasurer of Southwest Water Company, a
NASDAQ listed water utility and services company. From 1989 to
2004, Mr. Iselin
was employed in various capacities by Hughes Electronics
Corporation, now The DIRECTV Group, Inc., serving since 2000 as Director of Treasury.
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Richard
E. Sto ddard
serves as CEO and
Chairman of the Board
of Managers of Cadiz
Real Estate LLC, a wholly-owned
subsidiary
of Cadiz
Inc. In this position he
directs
the development
of the Cadiz
Valley Groundwater
Storage Project and
oversees Cadiz
Inc.’s other land
assets. Mr. Stoddard
also serves as the Assistant Secretary of the Company.
In addition
to his position at Cadiz,
since 1988, Mr. Stoddard
has served
as the Chairman and
CEO of Kaiser Ventures LLC, an unrelated
company involved
in real estate development
and
waste management projects in Southern California.
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Geoffrey Grant was appointed a director of Cadiz in January 2007. Mr. Grant is presently a
Managing Partner and the Chief Investment Officer of Peloton
Partners LLP (“Peloton”), a global asset management firm launched in 2005. Since
Mr. Grant co-founded Peloton, the firm has grown to manage a $2
billion macro-oriented hedge fund.
Prior to founding
Peloton, Mr. Grant was with Goldman Sachs
for 15 years, from 1989 to 2004. Mr.
Grant’s last responsibility at Goldman Sachs
was as Head of Global
Foreign Exchange and Co-head of the
Proprietary Trading Group
in London. Mr. Grant began his career at Morgan Stanley,
working in New York and Tokyo from 1981
to 1989.
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Murray
H. Hutchison was appointed
a director
of Cadiz
in June 1997. From 1976 to 1996, Mr. Hutchison served
as Chief Executive Officer and
Chairman of International Technology, a publicly traded
diversified
environmental management company. Mr.
Hutchison currently serves as Chairman of the Board
of TEPPCO Partners, L.P., a publicly traded
partnership operating in refined
petroleum products,
liquefied
petroleum gases and
petrochemical transportation and storage. He also serves as
a director
on the boards
of Jack in the Box, Inc., a fast food
restaurant chain, and
Cardium
Therapeutics, Inc., a medical
technology company.
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Timothy
J. Shaheen was appointed
a director
of Cadiz
in March 1999. Mr. Shaheen is a private investor and
principal of Difinity Capital Partners LLP. From
September 1996 to April 2005, Mr. Shaheen served
as the President,
Chief Executive Officer and
a director
of Sun World
International, a major agricultural grower with desert
operations. Earlier in his career, Mr. Shaheen
worked
with the accounting firm of Ernst & Young LLP; he is a certified
public accountant.
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Raymond
J. Pacini
was appointed
a director
of Cadiz
in June 2005. Since May 1998, Mr. Pacini has
been the President,
Chief Executive Officer and
a Director of California Coastal Communities, Inc. (CALC),
a publicly traded
(NASDAQ:CALC)
residential
land
development
and
homebuilding
company operating in Southern California
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Stephen J. Duffy
was appointed a director of Cadiz
in July 2006. Mr.
Duffy currently serves as a Managing Principal for IHP-Arnel
Investment Partners, a real estate investment company, operating nationally. From 2004 - 2006 Mr. Duffy served as Chief
Operating Officer for Western National Realty Advisors,
an apartment acquisition, development and investment management company. Previously, Mr. Duffy was the
Partner-in-Charge of Real Estate Capital Markets for the Western
U.S.
with Ernst & Young, LLP.
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Winston
Hickox was appointed a director of Cadiz in October
2006. From 2004 – 2006, Mr. Hickox
served as Senior
Portfolio Manager with the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), designing a series of environmentally- oriented investment
initiatives for the fund’s $211
billion investment portfolio. Prior to CalPers, from 1999 -
2003, Mr. Hickox served as Secretary
of the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) and a member of
the Governor’s cabinet. Mr. Hickox’
environmental policy experience also includes membership
on the board of the
California League of Conservation Voters (CLCV), including a four-year
term as Board President (1994
- 2006); and two years on
the boards of Audubon California and Sustainable
Conservation (2004 - present). Mr. Hickox
is currently a partner at California Strategies, a public policy consulting firm, and is also
serving as a member of the board of Thomas
Properties Group, a publicly traded full service
real estate investment firm.
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