Eastside Distilling, Inc. announced that effective July 1, 2020, Robert Grammen, who joined the board in June 2020, will become company's lead independent board member, and chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Mr. Paul Block will remain chair of the Board and a non-independent member of the Board. On June 25, 2020, as part of his transition and under the Separation Agreement, Mr. Lawrence Firestone agreed to resign from the Board, effective July 30, 2020, the date of annual meeting of shareholders. Mr. Firestone did not serve on any Board committees at the time of his resignation. On June 26, 2020, Robert Manfredonia resigned as President of Eastside, effective July 17, 2020.