MANAGEMENT

Bruce Horowitz, Chief Operating Officer

Mr. Horowitz has served as a member of our Board since 2017 and Provectus’ Chief Operating Officer since 2019; he previously served as the Company’s Chief Operations Consultant from 2017 to 2019. Mr. Horowitz has served as the Managing Director of Capital Strategists, LLC, which provides corporate, strategic, and financial consulting services, since 2006. He also serves as a trusted advisor to family trusts and private individuals, with a focus on financial asset management, real estate management and special situation investments. He has also served as the Managing Member of Plata LLC since 2017. Earlier in his career Mr. Horowitz was a charter member of the New York Futures Exchange, was a Senior Vice President managing principal equity investment accounts, private equity investments and public offerings at Drake Capital Securities, and managed the trading department at the Los Angeles office of Laidlaw Equities. He was also a partner at Stanley Capital, a private equity buyout firm. Mr. Horowitz was the chairman and a member of two general obligation bond fund committees, raising more than $500 million in general revenue bonds for the Beverly Hills Unified School District. Subsequently, he was named the first chairman of both the state of California-mandated Citizens’ Oversight Committee and Facilities Advisory Committee, overseeing expenditure of all BHUSD general obligation bond funds. Mr. Horowitz is a founding member of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Positive Coaching Alliance. He founded and is currently the president of the Beverly Hills Basketball League, a youth basketball program that serves more than 35,000 families. Mr. Horowitz has also served as a member of the board of directors of the American Youth Soccer Organization and Beverly Hills Little League. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City and Bachelor of Arts degree from Washington University in St. Louis.

Eric Wachter, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer

Dr Wachter has served as our Chief Technology Officer since 2012. Dr. Wachter previously served as Executive Vice President, Pharmaceuticals and as a member of our Board from 2002 to 2012 and from 2016 to 2018. From 1997 to 2002, he was a senior member of the management team and a co-founder of Photogen Technologies, Provectus’ precursor company, including serving as Vice President, Secretary, and a member of its board of directors. Prior to joining Photogen, Dr. Wachter served as a senior research staff member with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), where he conducted research and development of advanced nanosensor and remote sensor technologies in the environmental and biomedical sciences, as well as for defense and transportation applications. A holder of approximately 40 patents, his awards include an R&D 100 for nanosensors, an R&D 100 for laser metrology, the Inventor’s Forum Advanced Technology Award, the Excellence in Research Award from ORNL, and an Upjohn Fellowship. He earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1988 and and a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Indiana University-Bloomington.

Heather Raines, CPA, Chief Financial Officer

Mrs. Raines has served as our CFO since 2019. Mrs. Raines previously served as the Company’s Controller from 2017 until her appointment as the Company’s CFO. Before joining the Company, Mrs. Raines served as the Vice President of Finance for BDry Waterproofing, a service business, from 2015 to 2017. She previously managed financial and accounting functions at AMETEK, Inc. (NYSE: AME), a manufacturing company, serving as AMT Business Unit Controller for AMETEK’s wholly owned subsidiary, Advanced Measurement Technology, Inc., in 2015, Scientific Instruments Business Unit Controller from 2013 to 2015, and Senior Finance Manager from 2007 to 2013. Mrs. Raines was a tax analyst at Goody’s Family Clothing from 2006 to 2007, and an Accounting Manager at Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens AG (NYSE: SI), from 2005 to 2006, and CTI Molecular Imaging, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTMI) from 1999 to 2005. Mrs. Raines received a Master’s Degree in Accounting from Strayer University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting from the University of Tennessee. She is a CPA, and a member of the American Institute of CPAs, the Tennessee Society of CPAs, and the Institute of Management Accountants.