At Nextleaf, we’ve gathered some of the brightest minds in the industry with proven track records and decades of cannabis experience, notable pioneers of extraction technology as well as some of the most talented scientists, researchers, and engineers.

Executive Officers & Board Of Directors

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Founder & CEO of Nextleaf (CSE: OILS), Paul is an entrepreneur with more than 15 years of leadership experience with emerging growth companies. Paul Pedersen is responsible for the vision, culture, and strategic direction of Nextleaf.

Pedersen has been focused on the cannabis industry since 2013, and was an early investor and advisor to Canada’s first legal cannabis oil producer acquired in 2016 by The Cronos Group (TSE: CRON). Pedersen founded Nextleaf in 2016 to improve cannabis oil economics with the construction of its automated closed-loop extraction plant in Metro Vancouver. The Company is a low-cost producer of cannabis distillate and CBD oils through its wholly-owned subsidiary Nextleaf Labs, a Health Canada licensed cannabis processor. Nextleaf owns the 2nd largest patent & IP portfolio of any cannabis company.

Paul has been a lifelong serial entrepreneur. He founded his first company while a student in college, and led an exit through a reverse takeover in 2007 by Towerstream, a NASDAQ listed technology company. Paul has been a founder of five companies that have gone public through an IPO or reverse takeover. He has more than 10 years of experience as a board member of publicly traded companies. In 2018, Pedersen co-founded with his spouse, Bluenose Labs, the first cannabis processor and distributor on Cape Breton Island, at the former pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in North Sydney, Nova Scotia. Paul was named one of the Cannabis Industry’s Top Forty Under 40 in 2020. He has been a guest speaker at more than a dozen Universities and conferences related to cannabis.
Pedersen received a MBA in Finance from Michigan State University – where he served as a Fellow at the Center for Venture Capital Private Equity and Entrepreneurial Finance – and a Bachelors of Commerce Degree from the Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary’s University. Paul grew up in Langley, B.C. in a dairy farming family.

Paul Pedersen

MBA

CO-FOUNDER & CEO

Sherry is the CEO and Co-Founder of CannDelta Inc., where she is responsible for providing regulatory expertise and developing strategies to ensure regulatory compliance within Canada’s existing cannabis framework.

Previously she was a Senior Regulatory Compliance and Enforcement Office with Health Canada’s Medical Cannabis Program. She contributed to field level input during the drafting of the current Cannabis Regulations.

Dr. Sherry Boodram

PH.D

Director

Fred has held senior positions in public service with the government for 22 years where he initiated and led projects in environmental geology, land reclamation and public safety. He has extensive experience engaging communities and navigating large scale projects to create mutually beneficial outcomes for all parties.

Fred left public service in 2007 to become Vice President of Silvore Fox Minerals Corp. (formerly TSXV: SFX). In 2010 Fred entered the consulting field where he focused on environmental management, corporate social responsibility and community engagement. He is also the Director of Sustainability & Community Affairs for XT Energy Group, a Canadian renewable energy company, and served as Chief Geologist with Legion Metals Corp. (CSE: LEGN).

Fred has served on the Board of Directors of Rheingold Exploration Corp., which became International Battery Metals Ltd. (CSE: IBAT), from 2012 – 2017, Canadian Land Reclamation Association, Rural Water Watch Association. Fred is a past president and council member of the Association of Professional Geoscientists of Nova Scotia.

Fred received an Honours Geology from St. Mary’s University in Halifax and Masters’ Degrees in Applied Science and Urban and Rural Planning from Dalhousie University, Halifax. Fred is a professional geologist, a Fellow of Geoscientists Canada and a Fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists.

Fred Bonner

Director

Kevin brings his extensive experience, with over 25 years in capital markets, working within the financial services industry to provide oversight to the operation, and direction of Nextleaf’s financial and capital markets initiatives. Having spent over 13 years as Head of Equity Trading at two of the largest asset managers in Canada, Mr. Keagan offers a unique insight to the inner workings of not only the investment decision-making process, but he also developed a close working relationship with broker dealers and investment managers on a global scale. Mr. Keagan was a member of the International Trader Forum advisory committee, and was a board member of both the Canadian Securities Trader Association and Institutional Equity Trader Association. He holds the CIM designation.

Kevin Keegan

CIM

CFO

Founder & CEO of Nextleaf (CSE: OILS), Paul is an entrepreneur with more than 15 years of leadership experience with emerging growth companies. Paul Pedersen is responsible for the vision, culture, and strategic direction of Nextleaf.

Pedersen has been focused on the cannabis industry since 2013, and was an early investor and advisor to Canada’s first legal cannabis oil producer acquired in 2016 by The Cronos Group (TSE: CRON). Pedersen founded Nextleaf in 2016 to improve cannabis oil economics with the construction of its automated closed-loop extraction plant in Metro Vancouver. The Company is a low-cost producer of cannabis distillate and CBD oils through its wholly-owned subsidiary Nextleaf Labs, a Health Canada licensed cannabis processor. Nextleaf owns the 2nd largest patent & IP portfolio of any cannabis company.

Paul has been a lifelong serial entrepreneur. He founded his first company while a student in college, and led an exit through a reverse takeover in 2007 by Towerstream, a NASDAQ listed technology company. Paul has been a founder of five companies that have gone public through an IPO or reverse takeover. He has more than 10 years of experience as a board member of publicly traded companies. In 2018, Pedersen co-founded with his spouse, Bluenose Labs, the first cannabis processor and distributor on Cape Breton Island, at the former pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in North Sydney, Nova Scotia. Paul was named one of the Cannabis Industry’s Top Forty Under 40 in 2020. He has been a guest speaker at more than a dozen Universities and conferences related to cannabis.
Pedersen received a MBA in Finance from Michigan State University – where he served as a Fellow at the Center for Venture Capital Private Equity and Entrepreneurial Finance – and a Bachelors of Commerce Degree from the Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary’s University. Paul grew up in Langley, B.C. in a dairy farming family.

Paul Pedersen

MBA

CO-FOUNDER & CEO

Sherry is the CEO and Co-Founder of CannDelta Inc., where she is responsible for providing regulatory expertise and developing strategies to ensure regulatory compliance within Canada’s existing cannabis framework.

Previously she was a Senior Regulatory Compliance and Enforcement Office with Health Canada’s Medical Cannabis Program. She contributed to field level input during the drafting of the current Cannabis Regulations.

Dr. Sherry Boodram

PH.D

Director

Fred has held senior positions in public service with the government for 22 years where he initiated and led projects in environmental geology, land reclamation and public safety. He has extensive experience engaging communities and navigating large scale projects to create mutually beneficial outcomes for all parties.

Fred left public service in 2007 to become Vice President of Silvore Fox Minerals Corp. (formerly TSXV: SFX). In 2010 Fred entered the consulting field where he focused on environmental management, corporate social responsibility and community engagement. He is also the Director of Sustainability & Community Affairs for XT Energy Group, a Canadian renewable energy company, and served as Chief Geologist with Legion Metals Corp. (CSE: LEGN).

Fred has served on the Board of Directors of Rheingold Exploration Corp., which became International Battery Metals Ltd. (CSE: IBAT), from 2012 – 2017, Canadian Land Reclamation Association, Rural Water Watch Association. Fred is a past president and council member of the Association of Professional Geoscientists of Nova Scotia.

Fred received an Honours Geology from St. Mary’s University in Halifax and Masters’ Degrees in Applied Science and Urban and Rural Planning from Dalhousie University, Halifax. Fred is a professional geologist, a Fellow of Geoscientists Canada and a Fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists.

Fred Bonner

Director

Kevin brings his extensive experience, with over 25 years in capital markets, working within the financial services industry to provide oversight to the operation, and direction of Nextleaf’s financial and capital markets initiatives. Having spent over 13 years as Head of Equity Trading at two of the largest asset managers in Canada, Mr. Keagan offers a unique insight to the inner workings of not only the investment decision-making process, but he also developed a close working relationship with broker dealers and investment managers on a global scale. Mr. Keagan was a member of the International Trader Forum advisory committee, and was a board member of both the Canadian Securities Trader Association and Institutional Equity Trader Association. He holds the CIM designation.

Kevin Keegan

CIM

CFO

Science & Innovation

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Through a 15+ year career in the cannabis industry, Ryan is an inventor of over 60 issued patents pertaining to the industrial-scale extraction and distillation of cannabinoids. Consumables and concentrates produced through the process Ryan pioneered, have been acknowledged through the Canadian Cannabis Awards, and are highly sought after by cultivators and consumers nationwide.

Born and raised in Canada’s West Coast cannabis heartland, Ryan is experienced in building and financing cannabis start-ups who have in-turn become industry leaders. Today, Ryan’s passion lies in identifying turn-key extraction solutions for cultivators, allowing them to scale-up and maximize revenue with ease.

Ryan Ko

V.P Innovation & Tech, Co-Founder

As a process engineer since 2005, Dr. Pal has worked applying fundamental chemical engineering and applied scientific principles to problems in many diverse fields, including extraction technology for oilsands operations, biodiesel processing and the petrochemical industry. Before joining Nextleaf in December 2017, Dr. Pal focused her career on process scale-up and process development in industrial research and development.

Dr. Krupal Pal

PH.D, P.ENG

Engineering Manager

Through a 15+ year career in the cannabis industry, Ryan is an inventor of over 60 issued patents pertaining to the industrial-scale extraction and distillation of cannabinoids. Consumables and concentrates produced through the process Ryan pioneered, have been acknowledged through the Canadian Cannabis Awards, and are highly sought after by cultivators and consumers nationwide.

Born and raised in Canada’s West Coast cannabis heartland, Ryan is experienced in building and financing cannabis start-ups who have in-turn become industry leaders. Today, Ryan’s passion lies in identifying turn-key extraction solutions for cultivators, allowing them to scale-up and maximize revenue with ease.

Ryan Ko

V.P Innovation & Tech, Co-Founder

As a process engineer since 2005, Dr. Pal has worked applying fundamental chemical engineering and applied scientific principles to problems in many diverse fields, including extraction technology for oilsands operations, biodiesel processing and the petrochemical industry. Before joining Nextleaf in December 2017, Dr. Pal focused her career on process scale-up and process development in industrial research and development.

Dr. Krupal Pal

PH.D, P.ENG

Engineering Manager

Strategic Operations

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Scott Mayer joined the Nextleaf Solutions team in Summer of 2020, bringing over 20 years of international leadership experience in engineering, operations, and quality assurance from the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, cosmetic, and cannabis industries.

Prior to joining the OILS team, Mr. Mayer was Senior Vice President of Operations, Head of Security, and Quality Assurance Person (QAP) for a BC-based LP. In his previous role, Scott completed the build-out and commissioning of the facility, established all cultivation and processing systems, implemented site security and quality management systems, and launched 2.0 products.

As Vice President of Operations for Nextleaf Solutions, Mr. Mayer is responsible for the optimization of our extraction processes, scheduling, and inventory while overseeing all partner operations as well as the day-to-day operations at the site. When he’s not working, Scott can be found spending quality time with his family. He also enjoys playing golf, good food, and a nice glass of wine.

Scott Mayer

Vice President of Operations

Keenan has been a cannabis advocate for well over a decade due to a two-storey fall in his residential framing career. Since then he’s had the privilege of working in the cannabis space, combining his love of cannabis, leadership, manufacturing, and a passion for innovation, and continuous improvement. He previously worked with a large licensed producer in Canada, helping them set up and run their edible line as the Manufacturing Manager. He’s excited about what the future of the cannabis industry can become and how Nextleaf will contribute to it.

Keenan Sindia

Production Manager

One of Nextleaf’s longest standing employees, Adel is an integral contributor to the company’s operational excellence.

Adel is an accomplished academic, having made both the Dean’s List and President’s list at Mount Royal University, where he completed his BBA in Finance and Business Management. This experience has allowed Adel to thrive in his role as Operations and Finance Associate, where he coordinates internal services and works as a core liaison in financing initiatives.

Adel Fares

BBA

Operations & Finance Associate

Catherine’s invested her time and talents in cannabis since the beginning of her career. While a passion for cultivation is what initially drew her into the cannabis industry, she’s immersed herself in all elements of the value chain, including processing, product development, regulatory, and patient care.

She’s a former MMAR Cultivation Manager, overseeing thousands of plants under production for medical use. A graduate of Kwantlen Polytechnical University’s Cannabis Professional Series, including Plant Production Facility Management, Catherine’s built a strong foundation of knowledge to pair with her valuable hands-on experience.

While previously at Aurora Cannabis, Catherine was part of the transition to a legal Adult-Use framework in Canada. Working within market development alongside sales, administration, and client care, Catherine provided support to several teams and stakeholders, responsible for initiatives around corporate social responsibility efforts, compliance, and risk management.

Now with Nextleaf, Catherine is the team lead for all aspects of customer success. Known for being solutions oriented she is driven by a desire to increase efficiency and streamline processes, which in turn helps clients scale their business with greater ease.

With a passion for seeing small businesses scale and thrive, she’s a firm believer that the most sustainable and viable growth opportunities within cannabis is not from the traditional vertically integrated operations model, but rather for businesses (of all sizes) to focus firmly on their core expertise.

Catherine Marion

Operations Manager

Scott Mayer joined the Nextleaf Solutions team in Summer of 2020, bringing over 20 years of international leadership experience in engineering, operations, and quality assurance from the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, cosmetic, and cannabis industries.

Prior to joining the OILS team, Mr. Mayer was Senior Vice President of Operations, Head of Security, and Quality Assurance Person (QAP) for a BC-based LP. In his previous role, Scott completed the build-out and commissioning of the facility, established all cultivation and processing systems, implemented site security and quality management systems, and launched 2.0 products.

As Vice President of Operations for Nextleaf Solutions, Mr. Mayer is responsible for the optimization of our extraction processes, scheduling, and inventory while overseeing all partner operations as well as the day-to-day operations at the site. When he’s not working, Scott can be found spending quality time with his family. He also enjoys playing golf, good food, and a nice glass of wine.

Scott Mayer

Vice President of Operations

Keenan has been a cannabis advocate for well over a decade due to a two-storey fall in his residential framing career. Since then he’s had the privilege of working in the cannabis space, combining his love of cannabis, leadership, manufacturing, and a passion for innovation, and continuous improvement. He previously worked with a large licensed producer in Canada, helping them set up and run their edible line as the Manufacturing Manager. He’s excited about what the future of the cannabis industry can become and how Nextleaf will contribute to it.

Keenan Sindia

Production Manager

One of Nextleaf’s longest standing employees, Adel is an integral contributor to the company’s operational excellence.

Adel is an accomplished academic, having made both the Dean’s List and President’s list at Mount Royal University, where he completed his BBA in Finance and Business Management. This experience has allowed Adel to thrive in his role as Operations and Finance Associate, where he coordinates internal services and works as a core liaison in financing initiatives.

Adel Fares

BBA

Operations & Finance Associate

Catherine’s invested her time and talents in cannabis since the beginning of her career. While a passion for cultivation is what initially drew her into the cannabis industry, she’s immersed herself in all elements of the value chain, including processing, product development, regulatory, and patient care.

She’s a former MMAR Cultivation Manager, overseeing thousands of plants under production for medical use. A graduate of Kwantlen Polytechnical University’s Cannabis Professional Series, including Plant Production Facility Management, Catherine’s built a strong foundation of knowledge to pair with her valuable hands-on experience.

While previously at Aurora Cannabis, Catherine was part of the transition to a legal Adult-Use framework in Canada. Working within market development alongside sales, administration, and client care, Catherine provided support to several teams and stakeholders, responsible for initiatives around corporate social responsibility efforts, compliance, and risk management.

Now with Nextleaf, Catherine is the team lead for all aspects of customer success. Known for being solutions oriented she is driven by a desire to increase efficiency and streamline processes, which in turn helps clients scale their business with greater ease.

With a passion for seeing small businesses scale and thrive, she’s a firm believer that the most sustainable and viable growth opportunities within cannabis is not from the traditional vertically integrated operations model, but rather for businesses (of all sizes) to focus firmly on their core expertise.

Catherine Marion

Operations Manager

Corporate Services

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Emma is a dynamic leader with proven expertise in building global lifestyle brands. She combines her passion for education, innovation, health sciences and marketing to deliver an “anything but average” approach to building world-class programs, products, and experiences. Most recently, Emma was a Partner, and Co-Founder of a multi-national strategic consulting company.

Through 10+ years working across the natural products, sport nutrition, and cannabis industries, Emma’s led the development of renowned education and experiential marketing programs within retail, CPG, and non-profit sectors; planned and facilitated hundreds of events for participants across North America; launched and reformulated SKU’s earning multi-million dollars in revenue across a variety of distribution channels including online, and retail.

Emma Andrews

BA, NPDP, RHN

Director of Marketing

Charles Ackerman has extensive experience developing and executing investment strategies as well as post transaction operations. Has successfully led the completion of business acquisitions, financings, mergers and exits. Charles left public practice accounting in 2015 after spending several years at a boutique accounting firm, AC Hunter Tellier Belgrave Adamson LLP, focused on providing diverse advisory and compliance services to small to mid-market businesses. Charles was also part of the corporate finance team at Grant Thornton LLP, providing valuation and transaction advisory services for small to mid-market companies, both locally and nationally. He has diverse operational and corporate strategy experience, having spent three years with a major family office in Halifax, NS (Mr. Fred Smithers), responsible for development and execution of private equity investment strategy. Lead a number of operational projects in portfolio companies. Lead the first bolt-on acquisition of Prime Material Handling Equipment Limited, designed and implemented turnaround and integration strategy of Prime Lift Limited (formerly MJS Holdings Limited). Charles holds a Bachelor Commerce Saint Mary’s University, and is a Chartered Professional Accountant, graduating in the top 10% of CPA candidates. Current or former member of the Boards of Directors or Advisors of Maple Leaf Homes Ltd., Metro Community Housing Association Non-profit (Treasurer), Radial Research Corp. (early stage technology company, pursing an IPO on the CSE), Prime Lift Limited and Dial Developments Limited.

Charles Ackerman

CPA, CA

Board Advisor

A Human Resources Professional who creates, develops and delivers programs to support the needs of teams and individuals, increasing engagement, adding value and contributing growth to the bottom line through highly engaged and productive staff.

As a Certified Strengths Coach, conducting workshops on performance development, building on an individual’s strengths and natural talents. I have a passion for helping people and believe that their success is my success! It’s great to be part of a team that is changing the industry and will positively impact the lives of others.

Mary-Aaron

Director of Human Resources

Ryan’s dedicated to driving brand growth through intelligent marketing strategy, with a focus on digital and event marketing. He’s successfully built online assets and infrastructure from the ground-up for emerging and established companies and led the execution of globally reaching event activations to engage industry, investor, and consumer audiences alike.

Ryan played a strategic role in retail operations and brand launch during the iconic transition from prohibition to legal adult-use cannabis in Canada while working with award winning multi-provincial retailer, Kiaro.

Since joining Nextleaf, Ryan’s increased visibility for the company’s patent portfolio and innovative technology, ensuring the value of intellectual property is integrated across all communication channels.

A communications and media graduate from Simon Fraser University, Ryan applied his skills in various industries before finding his niche within cannabis. He witnessed the impact of cannabis on a close family member coping with chronic pain and has been an advocate ever since.

Ryan’s work and insights have been featured in industry publications including Cannabis Retail Magazine, Leafly, and Cannabis Prospect Magazine.

Ryan Hirsch

BA

Sales & Marketing Manager

Emma is a dynamic leader with proven expertise in building global lifestyle brands. She combines her passion for education, innovation, health sciences and marketing to deliver an “anything but average” approach to building world-class programs, products, and experiences. Most recently, Emma was a Partner, and Co-Founder of a multi-national strategic consulting company.

Through 10+ years working across the natural products, sport nutrition, and cannabis industries, Emma’s led the development of renowned education and experiential marketing programs within retail, CPG, and non-profit sectors; planned and facilitated hundreds of events for participants across North America; launched and reformulated SKU’s earning multi-million dollars in revenue across a variety of distribution channels including online, and retail.

Emma Andrews

BA, NPDP, RHN

Director of Marketing

Charles Ackerman has extensive experience developing and executing investment strategies as well as post transaction operations. Has successfully led the completion of business acquisitions, financings, mergers and exits. Charles left public practice accounting in 2015 after spending several years at a boutique accounting firm, AC Hunter Tellier Belgrave Adamson LLP, focused on providing diverse advisory and compliance services to small to mid-market businesses. Charles was also part of the corporate finance team at Grant Thornton LLP, providing valuation and transaction advisory services for small to mid-market companies, both locally and nationally. He has diverse operational and corporate strategy experience, having spent three years with a major family office in Halifax, NS (Mr. Fred Smithers), responsible for development and execution of private equity investment strategy. Lead a number of operational projects in portfolio companies. Lead the first bolt-on acquisition of Prime Material Handling Equipment Limited, designed and implemented turnaround and integration strategy of Prime Lift Limited (formerly MJS Holdings Limited). Charles holds a Bachelor Commerce Saint Mary’s University, and is a Chartered Professional Accountant, graduating in the top 10% of CPA candidates. Current or former member of the Boards of Directors or Advisors of Maple Leaf Homes Ltd., Metro Community Housing Association Non-profit (Treasurer), Radial Research Corp. (early stage technology company, pursing an IPO on the CSE), Prime Lift Limited and Dial Developments Limited.

Charles Ackerman

CPA, CA

Board Advisor

A Human Resources Professional who creates, develops and delivers programs to support the needs of teams and individuals, increasing engagement, adding value and contributing growth to the bottom line through highly engaged and productive staff.

As a Certified Strengths Coach, conducting workshops on performance development, building on an individual’s strengths and natural talents. I have a passion for helping people and believe that their success is my success! It’s great to be part of a team that is changing the industry and will positively impact the lives of others.

Mary-Aaron

Director of Human Resources

Ryan’s dedicated to driving brand growth through intelligent marketing strategy, with a focus on digital and event marketing. He’s successfully built online assets and infrastructure from the ground-up for emerging and established companies and led the execution of globally reaching event activations to engage industry, investor, and consumer audiences alike.

Ryan played a strategic role in retail operations and brand launch during the iconic transition from prohibition to legal adult-use cannabis in Canada while working with award winning multi-provincial retailer, Kiaro.

Since joining Nextleaf, Ryan’s increased visibility for the company’s patent portfolio and innovative technology, ensuring the value of intellectual property is integrated across all communication channels.

A communications and media graduate from Simon Fraser University, Ryan applied his skills in various industries before finding his niche within cannabis. He witnessed the impact of cannabis on a close family member coping with chronic pain and has been an advocate ever since.

Ryan’s work and insights have been featured in industry publications including Cannabis Retail Magazine, Leafly, and Cannabis Prospect Magazine.

Ryan Hirsch

BA

Sales & Marketing Manager

Regulatory & Quality Assurance

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Tom Ulanowski is Vice President of Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs at Nextleaf Labs, where he also holds the positions of Quality Assurance Person (QAP) and Responsible Person. At Nextleaf, Tom is intimately involved in day-to-day production/manufacturing activities, as well as research and product development, regulatory liaison, and licensing/permitting. Tom is a Professional Chemist (ACPBC), Chartered Chemist (ACPO), and Articling Agrologist (BCIA), and holds an HBSc Degree in Analytical Chemistry & Environmental Monitoring from the University of Toronto, as well as a MSc Degree in Biogeochemistry and Hydrogeology from the University of Western Ontario.

Previous to joining Nextleaf, Tom was the Quality Assurance Manager, Quality Assurance Person (QAP), and Qualified Person in Charge (QPIC) at Canna Farms Ltd., a BC’s first legal licensed producer of award-winning cannabis products, based in Hope, BC. Since joining the legal cannabis industry in 2014, Tom has quality-assured hundreds of batches of cannabis, while leading to efforts to obtain multiple production and sales licences, win national industry awards, and increase output ten-fold via expansions, improvements to current practices, and the development of new processes and products. In 2018, Tom led the effort to manufacture, license, and market “Canna Kief”, the first legal concentrated form of cannabis commercially sold in Canada.

Tom is an advocate of a science-based approach to cannabis cultivation, processing and regulation, and encourages the use of critical thinking and healthy skepticism. He has been integral in developing Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s (KPU’s) Plant Production & Facility Management course, and has taught hundreds of students around the world about cannabis production and the interpretation of national and international regulations. Prior to his work with the cannabis plant, Tom was managing an environmental research laboratory at the Biotron Institute for Experimental Climate Change Research at the University of Western Ontario and conducting multidisciplinary scientific research in northern Canada.

Tom Ulanowski,

MSc, P.Chem/C.Chem, A.AG

Vice President of Quality Assurance & Regulatory Affairs

Tom Ulanowski is Vice President of Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs at Nextleaf Labs, where he also holds the positions of Quality Assurance Person (QAP) and Responsible Person. At Nextleaf, Tom is intimately involved in day-to-day production/manufacturing activities, as well as research and product development, regulatory liaison, and licensing/permitting. Tom is a Professional Chemist (ACPBC), Chartered Chemist (ACPO), and Articling Agrologist (BCIA), and holds an HBSc Degree in Analytical Chemistry & Environmental Monitoring from the University of Toronto, as well as a MSc Degree in Biogeochemistry and Hydrogeology from the University of Western Ontario.

Previous to joining Nextleaf, Tom was the Quality Assurance Manager, Quality Assurance Person (QAP), and Qualified Person in Charge (QPIC) at Canna Farms Ltd., a BC’s first legal licensed producer of award-winning cannabis products, based in Hope, BC. Since joining the legal cannabis industry in 2014, Tom has quality-assured hundreds of batches of cannabis, while leading to efforts to obtain multiple production and sales licences, win national industry awards, and increase output ten-fold via expansions, improvements to current practices, and the development of new processes and products. In 2018, Tom led the effort to manufacture, license, and market “Canna Kief”, the first legal concentrated form of cannabis commercially sold in Canada.

Tom is an advocate of a science-based approach to cannabis cultivation, processing and regulation, and encourages the use of critical thinking and healthy skepticism. He has been integral in developing Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s (KPU’s) Plant Production & Facility Management course, and has taught hundreds of students around the world about cannabis production and the interpretation of national and international regulations. Prior to his work with the cannabis plant, Tom was managing an environmental research laboratory at the Biotron Institute for Experimental Climate Change Research at the University of Western Ontario and conducting multidisciplinary scientific research in northern Canada.

Tom Ulanowski,

MSc, P.Chem/C.Chem, A.AG

Vice President of Quality Assurance & Regulatory Affairs

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At Nextleaf, we’ve gathered some of the brightest minds in the industry with proven track records and decades of cannabis experience, notable pioneers of extraction technology as well as some of the most talented scientists, researchers, and engineers.

Executive Officers & Board Of Directors

Paul Pedersen

Dr. Sherry Boodram

Fred Bonner

Kevin Keegan

Paul Pedersen

Dr. Sherry Boodram

Fred Bonner

Kevin Keegan

Science & Innovation

Ryan Ko

Dr. Krupal Pal

Ryan Ko

Dr. Krupal Pal

Strategic Operations

Scott Mayer

Keenan Sindia

Adel Fares

Catherine Marion

Scott Mayer

Keenan Sindia

Adel Fares

Catherine Marion

Corporate Services

Emma Andrews

Charles Ackerman

Mary-Aaron

Ryan Hirsch

Emma Andrews

Charles Ackerman

Mary-Aaron

Ryan Hirsch

Regulatory & Quality Assurance

Tom Ulanowski,

Tom Ulanowski,

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