TORONTO, Aug. 14, 2018 /CNW/ - The Board of Directors
of Aleafia Health Inc. (TSXV: ALEF) (OTCQX: ALEAF)
("Aleafia") or (the "Company"), one of Canada's leading, vertically integrated
medical cannabis companies with a unique patient-focused,
healthcare solution, has appointed Trevor
J. Newell, as its new Chief Marketing & Technology
Officer (CMTO).
Trevor has experienced and lead exponential growth at both the
enterprise and start-up level, building disruptive strategies and
executing them with analytical passion. Trevor has the unique
ability to establish and scale Aleafia's global leadership vision
of a fully integrated marketing and technology strategy founded on
delivering quality patient care from seed to sale.
Trevor assumed the CMTO role on August
13, 2018 and reports directly to CEO Geoff Benic and will be responsible for the
strategic direction and execution accountability for all of
Aleafia's marketing, sales, partnerships, business development and
technologies.
Prior to joining Aleafia, Trevor was co-founder and President of
SHOP.CA Network Inc. (SHOP.CA), Canada's first eCommerce Marketplace, creating
a national brand with over 15 million products across 5,000 brands
from 1,500 suppliers. Trevor lead the establishment and growth of
all operations within SHOP.CA throughout the idea, launch and
growth phases. Trevor's career experience also includes: GE
where his global enterprise experience lead to him earning his
master black belt of six sigma within GE's Information Management
Leadership Program, and Oracle within Financial Services as head of
global product strategy for capital markets and wealth
management.
The catalyst for Trevor's entrepreneurial passion came during
his tenure at Janna Systems Inc., as the company grew from 40 to
400 people in less than three years and eventually sold to Siebel
Systems (later acquired by Oracle) for $1.76
billion in the fall of 2000.
"Trevor is an innovative thinker with a long track record of
leading industry disrupting companies. We are excited to
unleash his passion and unique skill set to build Aleafia's
marketing and technology teams while building on our success of
combining 22 clinics, over 50,000 patients assessed and the two
cannabis production facilities into an integrated organization,"
said Geoff Benic, CEO of
Aleafia.
"Joining the Aleafia team is an amazing opportunity to create a
global medical cannabis leader with integrated technology and
marketing from seed to sale," said Trevor
Newell. "I am very excited to begin this journey as we build
on the foundation of Aleafia's fully funded production capacity of
38,000 kg per year of cannabis flower to show the world
Canada's leadership in technology
and marketing," said Trevor.
Welcome to the journey Trevor. #GameON
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About Aleafia Health Inc.:
Aleafia is a leading,
vertically integrated medical cannabis company with a unique focus
on delivering quality patient care from "seed" to "sale." Aleafia
is uniquely positioned with a singular focus on the medical
cannabis market. The company operates the largest brick and mortar
medicinal cannabis clinic network in Canada under the Canabo Medical Clinic brand,
which is staffed by licensed, practicing physicians. Aleafia has
obtained over 50,000 unique patients and maintains the largest
medical cannabis patient data set in Canada. Aleafia's state of the art production
facilities will allow for the production of high-quality strains at
low cost. Aleafia's production will focus on securing the
highest-quality medicinal product for its growing patient base.
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the Company's current expectations. When used in this press
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press release includes information relating to the implementation
of Aleafia Health's business plan. Such statements and
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risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ
materially from those contemplated in those forward-looking
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By their nature, forward-looking statements involve known and
unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause our
actual results, performance or achievements, or other future
events, to be materially different from any future results,
performance or achievements expressed or implied by such
forward-looking statements. Such factors include, among
others, the following risks: risks associated with the
implementation of Aleafia Health's business plan and matters
relating thereto, risks associated with the cannabis industry,
competition, regulatory change, the need for additional financing,
reliance on key personnel, the potential for conflicts of interest
among certain officers or directors, and the volatility of the
Company's common share price and volume. Forward-looking
statements are made based on management's beliefs, estimates and
opinions on the date that statements are made and the Company
undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements if
these beliefs, estimates and opinions or other circumstances should
change. Investors are cautioned against attributing undue
certainty to forward-looking statements.
SOURCE Aleafia Inc.