Alpine 4 Technologies appoints four new independent board members

Alpine 4 Technologies Ltd (OTCQB:ALPP) has announced the appointment of four new independent board members. The company said that Gerry Garcia, Edmond Lew, Christophe Jeunot, and Jonathan Withem have met NASDAQ's independent board majority requirements. The company is finalizing plans to up-list to the tech-heavy exchange.  "These new directors represent diverse talent, strength of character, and inclusiveness of ethnicity and gender,” said CEO Kent Wilson in a statement. “I am pleased to announce that Mrs Gerry Garcia will be Alpine 4's first female board member, Mr Lew, our first Chinese American, Mr Christophe Jeunot, our first international member and Mr Jonathan Withem, our first adjunct professor. As a technology-driven company, in such a transformative time, we feel it is important to have a board with youth on their side and their finger on the pulse. This is how we identify the signal in the noise … the innovation that creates new opportunities," he added. READ: Alpine 4 Technologies subsidiary goes for drone flight distance world record in Equatorial Guinea Alpine 4 provided bios of its four new board members as follows: Garcia is an independent consultant with more than 18 years of combined business and educational experience, with more than four years as the director of operations at an Arizona-based charter school. She has spent the last 16 years as a member on multiple boards for various non-profit 501(c)(3) organizations.  Lew started his career in IT as a systems engineer, building out hosted applications and delivering them through terminal computing in the early 2000s. After working in the support, implementation, and data center sides of the industry, he went out on his own as an IT consultant. He was self-employed for 14 years, lending his expertise to businesses in the construction, hospitality, utilities, education, arts, logistics, law enforcement, and technology fields.  Jeunot collaborates with Fortune 500 national and international companies as a storyboard artist aiding in movie, television, and branding campaigns. His clients range from Netflix and Peloton to Goldman Sachs, Exxon Mobile, Samsung, and 3M, among others. Withem contributed to the development of custom interfaces for ecommerce and onsite sales for entertainment company ETIX. As one of the largest interactive ticketing platforms, ETIX processes over 50 million tickets in 40 countries annually. He has experience working with a variety of teams to create, test, and release new products, in addition to client training.  Contact the author: patrick@proactiveinvestors.com Follow him on Twitter @PatrickMGraham