BioNeutral Group, Inc. Announces the Addition of Three New Members to Its Board of Directors

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Oct 05, 2012, 01:19 ET

MORRISTOWN, N.J., Oct. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- BioNeutral Group, Inc., (OTC Bulletin Board: BONU - News), a specialty life science technology-based company, today announced the addition of three new members to its board of directors. Messrs. Robert Machinist, Dr. Phillip Tierno, Jr. and Ben Hanafin were appointed new directors on September 28, 2012.

Mr. Machinist is currently Chairman of the Board of Advisors of MESA, a merchant bank specializing in media and entertainment industry transactions, a position that he has served in since 2002. Mr. Machinist is also a partner in Columbus Nova, a private investment fund. Prior to 2002, Mr. Machinist served as Managing Director and Head of Investment Banking for the Bank of New York and its Capital Market's division. For 12 years prior to his time at the Bank of New York, Mr. Machinist was President of Patricof & Company Capital Corp., a diversified venture capital and investment banking company with a multinational investment banking business. Patricof & Co. was sold to the Bank of New York in 1998. Prior to Patricof, Mr. Machinist held a series of top management positions at investment companies including Midland Capital Corporation, Wertheim & Company, Loeb Rhodes & Company and Lehman Brothers. Mr. Machinist served until December 2009 as Non-Executive Chairman of New Motion, Inc. and as a member of its Board of Directors and its Audit and Compensation Committees. He also serves on the Board of Directors of CIFC Corp. and is Chairman of CIFC's Audit Committee. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of United Pacific Industries, a publicly listed Hong Kong company where he also serves as Chairman of the Audit Committee and serves on the Compensation and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees. Mr. Machinist also serves as Vice-Chairman of Maimonides Hospital Medical Center, serves on their Board of Directors and as Chairman of its Investment Committee. Mr. Machinist is also involved in philanthropic activities including serving as Chairman of the America Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science and as a Trustee of Vassar College.

Dr. Philip M. Tierno, Jr. is the Director of Clinical Microbiology and Diagnostic Immunology at Tisch Hospital New York University Langone Medical Center. He is a clinical professor of Microbiology and Pathology at New York University School of Medicine and a Professor at New York University College of Dentistry. He has been with New York University since 1981. Prior to NYU, Dr. Tierno was with several medical institutions. He acts as a consultant to: the Office of the Attorney General of NY State; the Department of Health City of NY; the National Institute of Health; College of American Pathologists (CAP); International Hygiene Council; and NYCDOH Med Reserve Corps. Dr. Tierno has published numerous treatises on antibiotics, toxic shock syndrome and other infections. Dr. Tierno has in the past performed independent research and analysis on the Company's products on behalf of the Company.

Ben N. Hanafin has been the President of Carova Management, LLC since 1997. Carova is an executive management firm specializing in interim CEO assignments, executive coaching and strategic planning facilitation. At Carova, he has acted as interim CEO and provided consulting services to numerous companies including Strato, Inc. and AL Systems, Inc. Prior to Carova, he was the President of PyMaH Corporation, a medical device developer where he increased annual sales from $6 million to $35 million. Mr. Hanafin was with PyMaH for over 20 years, the last nine of them as President. He serves as a Trustee to several charitable organizations.

Mr. Lowenthal, the Company's CEO and President stated, "BioNeutral is excited to have the support of these three very accomplished individuals. Each of them brings to BioNeutral a resume of professional backgrounds that will complement the next growth phase of the Company into the area of commercialization of our products. Bob Machinist brings a wealth of experience in capital markets. Dr. Tierno has a world class reputation in microbiology and has long been a supporter of the claims and potentials of our products. Ben Hanafin has an impressive executive background in corporate strategic planning and the distribution of products to the medical community."

As a result of the appointments, the Company now has five (5) directors in total.

About BioNeutral Group, Inc.

Headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey with lab facilities at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, BioNeutral Group, Inc., is a specialty technology-based life-science company which has developed a technology platform that neutralizes harmful environmental contaminants, toxins and dangerous micro-organisms including bacteria, viruses, mold, fungi and spores. BioNeutral's products, Ygiene® and Ogiene®, kill germs and clean surfaces with a dramatic increase in speed and power over their rivals in the marketplace. BioNeutral's proprietary platform technology has been proven effective in surface, water and airborne applications. Its antimicrobial line of products under the Ygiene® brand have been approved by the EPA for sale in the United States and has previously been approved for sale in Germany and it is also permitted to be sold in the UK, France and Sweden. Auto Neutral is a registered trademark of BioNeutral Group, Inc. For more information on BioNeutral, including a listing of company products, leadership and background please visit www.bioneutral.com.

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