Eastside Distilling, Inc. named spirits industry and consumer goods veteran Paul Block as the Company’s new Chief Executive Officer, effective July 1, 2020. Block initially joined Eastside as Chairman in April 2020 and will succeed Lawrence Firestone as CEO who helped to successfully implement strong fiscal management at Eastside following his appointment in November 2019.
Effective July 1, 2020, Robert Grammen, who joined the board in June 2020, will become Eastside’s lead independent board member, and chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Lawrence Firestone will resign from the Eastside board effective July 30, 2020.