Michael P. Tarnok

Michael P. Tarnok joined the Board on June 12, 2014 and currently serves as chairman of the Company’s Compensation Committee. He also serves on the Company’s Audit and Nominating Committees, and on January 12, 2015 Mr. Tarnok was appointed Dyadic’s Chairman of the Board. Mr. Tarnok is also currently a board member of Ionetix, Inc. In addition, Mr. Tarnok’s previously served as a board member for Global Health Council, and Keryx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc., where he also served as Chairman of the board of directors. Mr. Tarnok is a seasoned finance and operational executive with extensive pharmaceutical industry experience in a wide range of functional areas. He spent most of his career at Pfizer Inc., which he joined in 1989 as Finance Director-US Manufacturing and from 2000 to 2007 served as a Senior Vice President in Pfizer’s US Pharmaceutical Division. In this position, Mr. Tarnok managed multiple responsibilities for the division including, finance, access contracting, trade management, information technology, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, and the Greenstone generics division. Prior to joining Pfizer, Mr. Tarnok worked primarily in financial disciplines for ITT Rayonier, Inc., Celanese Corporation and Olivetti Corporation of America. Mr. Tarnok earned an M.B.A. in Marketing from New York University and a B.S. in Accounting from St. John’s University.