Stanley Speer

Stanley Speer is the Company’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective May 2020. In addition to his role at Cadiz, Mr. Speer is a member of the Board of Directors of Sunworks (NASDAQ: SUNW) and the Chairman of its Audit Committee. Mr. Speer is also the principal of Speer and Associates, LLC, a consulting firm he founded in 2012 to provide practical operational, financial and strategic financial solutions to public and private businesses. Earlier in his career, Mr. Speer was a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal (“A&M”), a global professional services firm specializing in advising and assisting boards of directors, investment groups, management groups and lenders in a wide range of turnaround, restructuring and reorganization situations. Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Speer served as Chief Financial Officer for the Company, and its subsidiary Sun World International, a fully-integrated agriculture company. Prior to Cadiz, Mr. Speer was a partner with Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers), where he spent 14 years in the Los Angeles office specializing in business reorganizations. Mr. Speer earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Southern California.