NutraCea Appoints Richard H. Koppes to Board of Directors

Press Release Source: NutraCea On Friday April 1, 2011, 8:00 am EDT

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., April 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- NutraCea (NTRZ.pk ), a world leader in production and marketing of stabilized rice bran (SRB), rice bran oil (RBO) and their derivative products, today announced that on March 31, 2011, Richard H. Koppes was appointed to the Company's Board of Directors as an independent director.

Koppes is the former Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel of the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), the largest public pension fund in the United States with over $230 billion in assets. At CalPERS, Koppes, as second in command, was responsible for all legal advice for the System (including its fiduciary obligations), direction of the fund's corporate governance, and oversight of all internal auditing matters and public affairs activities.

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