On January 13, 2017, the Board of Directors of Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc. unanimously elected Mr. Robert Cochran, age 63, to the Board to fill the vacancy left by Mr. Jack Lahav, who retired from the Board effective October 27, 2016. Since November 2015, Mr. Cochran has been President and CEO of CTG, LLC. Since April 2012, Mr. Cochran has been a director of Longenecker & Associates, Inc., a privately held consulting firm that provides highly specialized, fast-response technical-management support to nuclear and environmental industries.