Ryan is a clinic manager and community advocate with Cannabis Supply Co. A patient centered clinic which provides legal access, advice and education to eligible Canadian patients.
His position requires many hats including patient support and education, relationship management, marketing, business development, operations, and strategy. Ryan is a strong believer in the cannabis movement, alternative health, patient care, education, and an inclusive market.
Over the past 15 years, Ryan has worked in many industries including financial services, security and intelligence, gaming, small business, and nonprofit. What began with financial research into the industry quickly changed when he started to understand the massive medical potential of cannabis, from what he previously knew and understood. Ryan has always been an advocate for fair access and sought opportunities to join the industry when the rules and conversations around medical cannabis began to shift. He began to deeply explore cannabis as an alternative medicine, and consuming it with increased awareness and purpose. He decided to shift completely into the cannabis industry late in 2016.
Ryan applies his knowledge and experience to contribute in changing the dialogue around cannabis consumption and regulation, and to help patients understand and navigate an entirely new and legal industry.
Sabrina Gherbaz is a partner in the Commercial Real Estate Group and Infrastructure and Energy Group at Torys. She has experience in the cannabis field and has advised industry stakeholders on various aspects of structuring joint ventures and other strategic alliances including corporate and partnership matters, real estate, financing, employment, tax and distribution. Sabrina has more than 20 years of experience advising clients on complex commercial transactions and has been recognized by clients and peers as a leading lawyer in real estate, project finance and business law. Sabrina was also recognized as one of Canada’s leading lawyers under 40 by Lexpert.
With over 30 years of experience as a corporate and securities lawyer, Margaret provides reliable and incisive advice clients can use with confidence. She is actively involved in mergers and acquisitions and works closely with boards on an ongoing basis to help them adopt best governance practices and manage critical issues. As a former member of the Securities Advisory Committee of the Ontario Securities Commission, Margaret brings a depth of perspective and understanding to her practice that provides a tangible benefit to her clients. She keeps on top of emerging issues that affect her clients and draws on her wide-ranging expertise to provide them with guidance on how best to respond.
Margaret is a member and former practice group leader of the firm’s Capital Markets Group. She is also a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions/Private Equity Group and the Energy and Cannabis Teams. Margaret has significant expertise in corporate governance, investments for financial institutions and pension plans, mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, public financings, acquisition financings, private placements, proxy solicitations, corporate reorganizations and general corporate work.
Margaret advises public and private companies across a variety of sectors. Her experience includes acting as counsel to one of Canada’s largest gas distribution utilities, one of Canada’s largest pension plans, various real estate sector participants and large governmental and quasi-governmental not-for-profit entities.
Margaret regularly advises the boards of directors of public companies on corporate governance and other matters. She is a member of the board of trustees of Allied Properties REIT and previously served as a director of a large Ontario electricity distributor. Margaret is also a director of Lakefield College School, and was a director of Alpine Ontario Alpin, the provincial governing body for the sport of alpine ski racing in Ontario.
Sherri earns the trust of her clients by adeptly managing complex and time-sensitive corporate finance transactions and by providing relevant, business-focused solutions to corporate/commercial and capital markets issues. Her depth of perspective and understanding of corporate and securities law matters comes from her ongoing representation of clients ranging from small and medium enterprises to established multi-billion dollar corporations. Sherri effectively prioritizes issues on complex and time-sensitive transactions, and works diligently to ensure that outcomes align with her clients’ overall business goals.
Sherri is a member of the firm’s Capital Markets, Corporate/Commercial and Mining Groups as well as a member of the firm’s Capital Pool Company, Startups and Cannabis Groups. Her practice is focused on mergers, acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, public and private financings and ongoing corporate and commercial matters. She has developed specialized expertise in capital markets transactions, including advising real estate investment trusts with respect to board governance, securities and financing matters.
Sherri regularly advises corporations on public offerings, private placement financings, flow-through financings, reverse takeovers, stock exchange listings, continuous disclosure, corporate governance and the formation and completion of qualifying transactions for companies established under the TSX Venture Exchange Capital Pool Company Program.
In 2010, Sherri completed a six-month term of secondment with the Corporate Finance Branch of the Ontario Securities Commission where she was responsible for reviewing and clearing prospectuses and considering applications for relief from the requirements of the Securities Act (Ontario). In 2016, Sherri was appointed to the Ontario Securities Commission Small and Medium Enterprises Committee. Sherri also instructs Corporate Finance at Windsor Law School and is a frequent public speaker.
Dario DiCarlo – Principal and Partner at The HIDI Group with over a decade of experience in engineering consulting. A graduate of McMaster University in Engineering Physics, he holds a Masters of Business Administration in Technology and Innovation. As Electrical Lead Engineer, Dario has built a diverse global portfolio of projects that spans various sectors including pharmaceutical, mission critical, educational institutions, and arts and culture.
In 2014, Dario began consulting for Commercial Medicinal Marijuana Growers, providing electrical engineering services for new and existing production facilities with an emphasis on long term energy planning and energy cost strategies. As a guest speaker for the Emerging Green Builders’ Greater Toronto Chapter his expertise covers green building design, lighting, controls, power monitoring, and renewable energy.
Married to wife Judy for 45 years and has two daughters and three grandchildren all residing in Kincardine Ontario.
Al was a member of the Ontario Provincial Police for 32 years.
During that time he was stationed in Markdale, Kincardine, Goderich, Mount Forest and Regional Headquarters in London.
Al has extensive experience in managing major criminal and drug related investigations. Al retired as a Detective Staff Sergeant, Western Region, Criminal Operations .
In 2014 Al was recruited by 7 ACRES to assist them with the design and implementation of all security measures, create Standard Operating Procedures, security staffing as well as acting liaison with local law enforcement. During the past year Al has also taken on the responsibility of community outreach programs, corporate sponsorship’s and community presentations.
Jae Park leads sales and business development at Ample Organics. His background is in life sciences with a degree in Neuroscience and Health Studies from the University of Toronto, along with extensive experience in regulatory compliance at Health Canada’s Office of Medical Cannabis and the National Research Council of Canada’s International Relations Office.
Ed started his recruitment career in the 2008 recession and thus quickly turned to his family history and knowledge within the food processing industry. In 2008/2009 food manufacturers were still hiring (and some even growing) and Ed found a niche in recruiting for technical mid-management positions across Quality Assurance, Food Safety, Regulatory, Engineering, R&D and Operations. This has since expanded into the Food, Pharmaceutical, and Consumer Packaged Goods and now Cannabis sector. In 2012 Ed teamed up with his brother / partner Justin to launch CPG Executive Search. Making the transition into Cannabis recruiting in 2016 was a logical next step based on the similarities to food & pharma.
CPG Exec separates ourselves from generalist recruiters by specializing in related technical industries with similar technical resource needs; being Food, Pharma, CPG and now Cannabis. The talent pool for these sectors can be scarce, competitive, and elusive – which is why we do what we do! Having worked for several successful start-ups to large multi-national Tier 1 CPG companies Ed understands the differences between who would ‘fit’ within a small business vs. corporate multi-national and how to find, attract, and retain these professionals.
Brad Rogers brings tremendous experience in the Canadian medical cannabis industry to CannTrust, having co-founded Mettrum Ltd., one of the largest MMPR Licensed Producers in the country. From the inception, Mr. Rogers acted as the Chief Operating Officer, building the organization across all disciplines taking the company from its MMPR application stage, through to a going public transaction on the TSX Venture Exchange. Mr. Rogers was also an integral part of leading and subsequent acquiring of all licenses across the three facilities as well as the multiple financings completed by Mettrum. Since joining CannTrust he has strategically transformed the company into one of the premiere LP’s driving exponential growth through the culture of disciplined execution, significantly outperforming industry. He holds an MBA from Richard Ivey.
Ilya comes from an agency background having run multi-million-dollar marketing campaigns for brands like Havergal College, Renova and Plan Canada’s “Because I am a Girl” which won two Gold Cassie Awards and lead to the United Nations designating Oct 11th as the “International Day of the Girl”. He has also helped to create the strategy, branding and seasonal campaigns for companies and organizations such as the Canadian Red Cross, Nova 7, Benjamin Bridge Méthode Classique, BMW Canada, Hollywood Suite, Appleby College, Havergal College, Canadian Olympic Foundation, St. Joseph’s Hospital Foundation and the CIBC.
After leaving the agency world in 2014, Ilya began concentrating on building and branding local startup in the tech sector. At the same time, he began to transition into the Medical Marijuana market in various capacities. From helping to acquire funding for Canadian MMPR/ACMPR licensed producers to advising on the strategy, branding and business processes for various sectors of the industry. This allowed him to gain a wealth of knowledge in everything from, growing technologies, security protocols, business analysis and development, funding opportunities, company structures, contracts and leasing negotiations as well as the Canadian and American legal landscapes and general operations in both the medical and recreational markets.
Currently Ilya works as the Director of Business Development for Cannascribe Inc. Medical Marijuana Prescription Service. There he oversees the growth of the business and is helping to shape the future of patient care, clinical involvement, education, partnership and most importantly patient access to Medical Marijuana.
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