MDwerks, Inc. announced that the Company?s wholly owned subsidiary, MD-TT Merger Sub, Inc. (?Merger Sub?), merged with Two Trees Beverage Company, a Delaware corporation (?Two Trees?) on December 8, 2023. Effective on the Merger Closing Date, the Company?s Board of Directors (the ?Board?) was expanded and James P. Cassidy and Edward D. Kratovil who were named by Two Trees, were appointed to the Board, James P. Cassidy, aged 61, was appointed as a Director of the Company on December 8, 2023 following its acquisition of Two Trees. Mr. Cassidy is the founder and Managing Partner of Preposterous Holdings, a family run private equity business with offices in Asheville, North Carolina which he established in 2013.

Mr. Cassidy has worked as a private equity investor and advisor for over 25 years with dozens of companies across several industries, with extensive experience in the tobacco, technology, hospitality, consumer packaged goods, and healthcare sectors. Since May 2021, he has served as Chairman of the Board of Two Trees. Beginning in 2016 he was an early investor in, and helped guide, GoFire, Inc. as a board member and consultant until the sale of its certain vaporizer and inhalation-related intellectual property assets to Kaival Brands Innovations Group, Inc. in May 2023.

From 2000 to 2007, Mr. Cassidy was a partner in The StrataGroup, a wealth management advisory group at Smith Barney. From 1983 to 1993, he worked in various roles in the government relations department and as Director of Corporate Services at UST Inc., a tobacco business holding company. Mr. Kratovil was appointed to the Board of Directors on December 8, 2023.

Since April 2009 he has been a corporate crisis management consultant for companies engaged in sales of tobacco, nicotine products, and vapor devices. In 2009, Mr. Kratovil retired as a Senior Vice President from UST Inc. (sold to Altria in 2008) where he had been employed since 1985. UST Inc. produced and marketed smokeless tobacco products and wine, sparkling wine, and cigars under brand names such as Chateau Ste.

Michelle, Columbia Crest, Don Tomas Cigars. Mr. Kratovil previously was the Director of Government Relations for American Can Company, served for three years as Chairman of the Connecticut Gaming Policy Board, spent seven years on the Board of the Congressional Sportsmen?s Foundation and received a Bachelor of Arts with a major in Political Science from Southampton College of Long Island University.