Board of Directors

Mr. Robinette has served as a member of the Board since June 28, 2019, as Lead Independent Director from September 10, 2021, and as Chairman of the Board since March 2025. He chairs the Compensation Committee and serves on the Audit Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.

Since 2013, Mr. Robinette has served as a CEO Coach and Master Chair with Vistage Worldwide, Inc., where he leads two CEO peer advisory groups and serves as a Best Practice Chair for the Vistage Chairs in the San Diego region. He is also the founder and CEO of EPIQ Development, a consulting firm he founded in 2013, and is a Certified Scaling Up Coach. Previously, Mr. Robinette held leadership roles at Peregrine Semiconductor (now pSemi), including General Manager of the High Reliability Business Unit and leader of worldwide sales. He began his career at Tyco Electronics (now TE Connectivity), where he held sales, sales leadership and product development roles over sixteen years.

Mr. Robinette is the author of Rich Layers: 6 Strategies to 10X Your Business and Modern Leadership Agreement: How Leaders Adapt or Get Left Behind. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration, Marketing, from San Diego State University.

The Company believes Mr. Robinette is qualified to serve on the Board because of his extensive experience advising CEOs on strategy, growth and execution, and his operating background in the electronics and semiconductor industries.

Mr. Johnson has been our director since July 12, 2012. Mr. Johnson has been a director of Flux Power since it was incorporated. Since 2002, Mr. Johnson has been a director and the chief executive officer of Esenjay Petroleum Corporation (Esenjay Petroleum), a Delaware company located in Corpus Christi, Texas, which is engaged in the business oil exploration and production. Mr. Johnson’s primary responsibility at Esenjay Petroleum is to manage the business and company as chief executive officer. Mr. Johnson is a director and beneficial owner of Esenjay Investments LLC, a Delaware limited liability company engaged in the business of investing in companies, and an affiliate of the Company owning approximately 27.5% of our outstanding shares, including common stock underlying options, and warrants that were exercisable or convertible or which would become exercisable or convertible within sixty (60) days. As a result of Mr. Johnson’s leadership and business experience, he is an industry expert in the natural gas exploration industry and brings a wealth of management and successful company building experience to the board. Mr. Johnson received a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Southwestern Louisiana.

Mr. Mark Leposky was appointed to our Board on April 18, 2024. Mark Leposky has over 30 years of experience leading, transforming, growing, and turning around consumer product and service companies. He currently serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer of Topgolf Callaway Brands Corp., an unrivaled tech-enabled golf company delivering leading golf equipment, apparel and entertainment, with a portfolio of global brands. He is responsible for sourcing, manufacturing, golf ball R&D, engineering, quality, program management, planning, purchasing, transportation and logistics, the Ogio global brand, and the Wolfskin global brand. Prior to his work at Topgolf Callaway Brands, he served as the President & CEO of Gathering Storm, Chief Supply Chain Officer at Fisher Scientific, and Chief Operating Officer at TaylorMade Golf, among other roles at The Coca-Cola Company and United Parcel Service. Mr. Leposky also served in the U.S. Army for 16 years with roles including Infantry Officer, Platoon Leader, Executive Officer, Company Commander, Battalion and Brigade Logistics Officer. He retired from the Army with the rank of Major and received many awards and commendations including the Douglas MacArthur Leadership Award and The Illinois Medal of Merit. Mr. Leposky holds a Bachelor of Sciences degree in Industrial Technology from Southern Illinois University, and an MBA from the Keller Graduate School of Management.

Mr. Vanka has over 18 years of experience in building, scaling, managing and transforming technology companies in sectors including renewable energy, electric vehicle charging, and others. Mr. Vanka has served as SVP & Chief Digital Officer (CEO of Digital Division) at Fluence Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq: FLNC), from August 2022 to January 2024. In this role, he was responsible for the company’s strategic growth, profitability, and operational execution, achieving a 300% increase in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) and overseeing a fivefold expansion in Assets Under Management (AUM). He played a key role in integrating product lines of two cloud-based software offerings, Mosaic and Nispera, into a unified platform, driving innovation in Fluence’s software offerings, including Battery Management Systems (BMS), IoT devices, and Core OS. Mosaic was recognized for its state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms and AI-driven capabilities, winning Time magazine’s 2022 Best Innovations award in the software category. Prior to joining FLNC, Mr. Vanka was a founding team member and Chief Product Officer at InCharge Energy from November 2020 to August 2022, where he led product development and technology strategy for EV fleet charging solutions. From April 2018 to November 2020, he was the founder and Chief Executive Officer of MyShoperoo Inc, an enterprise-focused on-demand shopping platform that optimized last-mile delivery efficiency through intelligent aggregation algorithms. Mr. Vanka holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Ottawa and an MBA from Georgia State University. He has also completed executive leadership programs at UC Berkeley, including coursework in Artificial Intelligence for Business Strategies.

Ms. Walters-Hoffert was appointed to our Board on June 28, 2019. Ms. Walters-Hoffert was a co-founder of Daré Bioscience, Inc. and following the company’s merger with Cerulean Pharma, Inc. in July of 2017, became Chief Financial Officer of the surviving public company (NASDAQ: DARE). For over twenty-five (25) years, Ms. Walters-Hoffert was an investment banker focused on small-cap public companies in the technology and life science sectors. From 2003 to 2015, Ms. Walters-Hoffert worked at Roth Capital Partners as Managing Director in the Investment Banking Division. Ms. Walters-Hoffert has held various positions in the corporate finance and investment banking divisions of Citicorp Securities in San José, Costa Rica and Oppenheimer & Co, Inc. in New York City, New York. Ms. Walters- Hoffert has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the San Diego Venture Group, as Past Chair of the UCSD Librarian’s Advisory Board, and as Past Chair of the Board of Directors of Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest. Ms. Walters-Hoffert currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of The Elementary Institute of Science in San Diego. Ms. Walters-Hoffert graduated magna cum laude from Duke University with a B.S. in Management Sciences. As a senior financial executive with over twenty-five years of experience in investment banking and corporate finance and based on Ms. Walters-Hoffert’s expertise in audit, compliance, valuation, equity finance, mergers, and corporate strategy, the Company believes Ms. Walters-Hoffert is qualified to be on the Board.