Blue Water Biotech, Inc. announced the appointment of Bruce Harmon as CFO, effective immediately. Mr. Harmon has more than 40 years of experience in financial positions with life sciences companies and various other industries. He replaces Jon Garfield, who has left the company.

Mr. Harmon has served in a variety of roles, including chief financial officer, controller, chief executive officer and audit committee chairman. Immediately prior to joining Blue Water Biotech, he was an independent consultant who served in the outsourced CFO capacity for multiple publicly traded companies since 2008. During this time, Mr. Harmon was CFO of Marizyme Inc., the CFO of bioAffinity Technologies Inc. and a director of Dale Biotech LLC.

Through his consulting business, Lakeport Business Services Inc., he worked with numerous companies. He has extensive experience with fundraising, public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and turnarounds. Earlier in his career, he was a member of a team that, at the invitation of the Environmental Programmé, presented a green building product to delegates at the United Nations.

He earned a bachelor of science degree in accounting from Missouri State University.