Energy Plug Technologies Corp. announced the appointment of Adam Morand as an independent director of the Company, effective February 16, 2024. Mr. Morand will assist the Company with leadership in manufacturing and technology while ensuring the Company has appropriate Indigenous representation.

Adam Morand is an Entrepreneurial Technologist who is passionate about innovation and industrial localisation of all basal human needs. Mr. Morand's lifetime goal is to see economically viable technologies creating a global abundance of food, energy, clothing, shelter, clean air and fresh water. Imbued with an innate need to improve, seek efficiencies, create, build and solve puzzles; every day is an opportunity to do good.

Mr. Morand started at an early age with digital electronics and computer programming in the 1980's; then moving to Vancouver in the 1990?s to professionally experience the rise and fall of the dotcom era. In 1999, Mr. Morand designed and wrote competitive eSports patents for massive online multiplayer game tournaments and financial payment systems before founding Moshpit Entertainment and the Bloodmoney Universe, the world's first platform playing competitive games for cash. In 2001, Mr. Morand founded Illuminated Technologies to build and deploy disruptive software platforms and supporting mission-critical enterprise data structures and high-volume data centre infrastructures.

The incredibly talented Illuminated team completed more than 1,000 projects over 5 years and spawned dozens of joint ventures and startups. In 2015, he founded A4 Systems Corp. to specialise in Pan-Industrial Cyber-Physical systems development and deployment.

Additionally, Mr. Morand is involved with AgriPlay Ventures to create global food security and with HerdWhistle Technologies to create livestock technologies for a more efficient world. The Company also announces that Fred Stearman has resigned as a director of the Company effective February 14, 2024, and Li Doyle has resigned as the VP of Sales of the Company, effective February 1, 2024. Ms. Doyle will remain a director of the Company.