Todd Shapiro

Co-Founder, CEO & Director

Todd Shapiro, after being a top rated Radio Show host & a brilliant Marketing Entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience, has recently moved on from mainstream media to concentrate his efforts on being the CEO of Red Light Holland.

Shapiro also has an incredible history as one of North America's most professional & effective Brand Ambassadors and Influencers having worked with Canopy Growth, Samsung, Canada Goose, Canadian Tire & Boveda Inc.

Todd Shapiro most recently was an Honorary Chair for the Road Hockey To Conquer Cancer for the Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation and is a supporter of CAMH and the Polar Bear Foundation.

Todd currently sits on the Board of Directors for Red Light Holland, Datametrex and JamStacked as his experience, out of the box thinking and work ethic make him a valuable member to any team.

Hans Derix

President

Hans is a certified Substance Abuse Therapist (APCB) and member of the Association of Addiction Professionals (NAADAC) with over a decade of experience in the field of addiction treatment. He is the founder and managing director of Sensum, Asia’s first and only addiction treatment provider specialized in round-the-clock, one-on- one, in-home rehab services.

As a founding member of The New Life Foundation and former, senior member of Asia’s largest rehab center The Cabin, Hans has been instrumental in promoting third wave, mindfulness based therapies to the field of addiction recovery in Asia. Hans recognizes the huge potential of natural remedies, including magic truffles, in treating individuals suffering from mental health disorders such as addiction. He is a strong advocate of further, clinical research and his aim is to achieve such with Red Light Holland. Hans was born and raised in the south of Holland in an area known for its mushroom production.

Brad J. Lamb

Chairman of the Board of Directors

Long considered Toronto’s top condominium broker, Brad J. Lamb is also one of the cities most prominent developers. He is a driving force behind Canada’s burgeoning real estate market. As CEO of Brad J. Lamb Realty Inc. and Lamb Development Corp Brad has 30 years of widespread industry experience. He is responsible for the marketing and sales campaigns of over 130 condominium projects across six major Canadian cities. Additionally, Brad’s team of sales experts have helped many thousands of consumers in the buying and selling of property. To date, Brad J. Lamb has been involved in the sale of over 29,000 properties for more than 8.5 Billion dollars. Since 2002, Lamb Development Corp has completed nineteen developments, some 3400 suites for over $1.3 Billion. Currently, Lamb Development Corp has three projects under construction, almost 800 suites for a value of $360 Million. Lamb Development Corp is in development on a further 15 projects in Toronto, Hamilton, Calgary and Edmonton with a value of $2.4 Billion.

Ann Barnes

Director

Ann has acted as corporate counsel and General Counsel for a number of private and publicly held companies, including Manulife Financial, TSN, Cott Corporation, and Insight Sports. She left her legal career to focus on her entrepreneurial passions for healthy food and plant based wellness. She founded and operated a chia and hemp based food company, published two (2) health food cookbooks and developed a social media following of over 31,000 people. She is a well-respected public speaker with a popular Tedx talk and an active advocate for plant based wellness.

Ann is the founder and original investor and Chairman of the first legally licensed medical cannabis company in Canada: Peace Naturals Project Inc., which majority was sold to Cronos Group Inc. and subsequently bought out by Altira (Marlborough) (NASDAQ ticker: CRON). Ann is also a Director of Earth Alive Clean Technologies, (Ticker: EAC.CN) a clean technology company that focuses on natural soil inputs to increase produce output while enriching the environment.

Ann is currently the Founder and CEO of E

Glenn Cowan

Former Canadian Special Operations Forces Officer, Founder of One 9 Investments

Mr. Cowan founded One 9 Venture Partners which invests primarily in dual-use technology companies validated by special operations units and national security intelligence partners including O2 Industries, a Kitchener based respiratory technology company and leading manufacturer of reusable respirators. O2 recently partnered with the UFC®, to provide UFC athletes with respiratory products for every UFC event, and has strong product ambassadors with some of the top fighters in the promotion. One 9 has a global reach and has an extensive network in Canada, the Five-Eyes military communities, Washington DC, Austin TX and Abu Dhabi.

Akwasi Owusu-Bempah

Advisor

Respected Academic, Author and Drug Law Reform and Drug Equity Expert

Akwasi's academic work has examined the unequal nature of drug law enforcement across North America. He has collaborated with major media outlets to advance public dialogue about the perils of the war on drugs. As a change-maker, Akwasi has lobbied federal governments to revise their drug laws, and through his not-for-profit work, has collaborated with some of the world's largest cannabis companies to advance their corporate responsibility mandates. He recently sat as a member of Health Canada's Expert Task Force on Substance Use and has contributed to ongoing decriminalization efforts across the country.

Kyle Appleby

CFO

Kyle Appleby
CFO
Kyle spent the first 10 years of his career working in public accounting where he worked in both audit and advisory practices working with private companies and investment funds. In 2007 Kyle left the world of public accounting to focus on providing management and accounting services to public companies across a variety of industries including cannabis, agriculture, technology, mining, crypto-currency and others.

Kyle has been the Chief Financial Officer for numerous companies, listed in Canada, US and London and has extensive experience in financial reporting, providing strategic direction, IPOs, fund raising, and corporate governance. He holds a Chartered Professional Accountant designation and is a member in good standing of the Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario and Canada.

Russell Peters

Chief Creative Officer

Russell Peters
Chief Creative Officer
Russell Peters was recently named as one of Rolling Stone’s 50 Best Comics of All Time. He started doing stand-up at the age of nineteen at open mics in his native Toronto, and spent the next fifteen years honing his craft at clubs across Canada and the UK. In 2004, Peters gained critical and global recognition for his CTV “Comedy Now!” special and soon became the first comedian to sell-out Toronto’s Air Canada Centre in 2007. Peters went on to set attendance records at venues from Madison Square Garden to The Sydney Opera House to London’s O2 Arena – where he broke the UK attendance record for highest number of tickets sold for an individual comedy show.

His subsequent tours were captured in his successful specials broadcast on Showtime and Comedy Central: Outsourced in 2006; Red, White and Brown in 2008; and, The Green Card Tour in 2010. In 2013, Peters became the first comedian to create a Netflix Original Comedy Special. Peters’ most recent tour, The Deported World Tour was seen by over 400,000 fans in 40 cities

Bruce Linton

Chairman of Advisory Board

Bruce Linton
Chairman of Advisory Board
Founder & former Chairman, CEO and Co-CEO of Canopy Growth Corporation (CGC) formerly Tweed Marijuana Incorporated, a cannabis company based in Smiths Falls, Ontario, Canada. Bruce founded Tweed in 2013 and renamed it Canopy Growth Corporation in 2015. Canopy Growth Corporation was the first cannabis company in North America to be listed on a major stock exchange (TSX-V in April 2014 and TSX in July 2016) and to be included on a major stock index (S&P/TSX Composite Index in March 2017). Bruce led CGC from a TSX-V listed start-up company with an $80 million market cap to a NYSE/TSX listed company (S&P/TSX60) including more than 30 M&A activities. Ranking number one on the TSX30 with a market cap of over $20 billion by the summer of 2019.
Bruce’s experience as a founder, CEO, and board member across a diversity of sectors was a huge influence for the success of CGC. Earning market support for capital raises of over $6 billion in public capital markets and private placements, the company funded capacity growth and opened new markets, including a $5 billion CAD inv

The Honourable Tony Clement

Senior Advisor

The Honourable Tony Clement
Senior Advisor
The Honourable Tony Clement has had a long and distinguished career, spanning four decades, in politics, the law and business. He served in senior roles in Prime Minister Harper’s Cabinet (2006-2015) as Health Minister, Industry Minister and President of the Treasury Board. In those roles he was tasked with senior leadership responsibilities. He initiated the cost reductions and business transformations that allowed for the balancing of the federal budget; negotiated the deal with Chrysler, GM, auto sector unions and the US Government that saved the domestic auto sector.

As Health Minister for Canada 2006-2008 he fashioned the first National Pandemic Plan working with the World Health Organization. He also created the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer and the Mental Health Commission.

As Industry Minister he initiated Canada’s Digital Strategy and later Canada’s open data strategy as part of the worldwide Open Government Partnership.

Genevieve Roch-Decter

Advisor

Genevieve Roch-Decter
Advisor
From 2006-2020, Genevieve built Grit Capital, one of the leading boutique investor relations firms in Canada. The firm specialized in showcasing small public & private companies to institutional and retail investors via traditional & new age social/digital media marketing. Grit Capital represented over 30 clients, hosted dozens of conferences and hundreds of roadshows as well as built a social media presence of +150,000 followers online. She has interviewed thought leaders and celebrities such as Marc Randdolph (the founder of Netflix), Kevin O’Leary (Shark Tank), Rob Gronkowski (NFL Star) and many others. She is currently also a Dealer Representative for First Republic Capital, an Exempt Market Dealer in Canada.

From 2008-2016, Genevieve worked as an analyst & portfolio manager at LDIC Inc., a $600M asset management company based in Toronto. For 7 years she managed the Redwood Global

Dr. Joseph Geraci - Ph

Advisor

Dr. Joseph Geraci - PhD, is a mathematician, medical scientist, and quantum machine learning specialist. He is currently the CEO of NetraMark Corp and a Professor of Molecular Medicine at Queen's University. He holds postdocs in oncology, neuro-psychiatry, and machine intelligence. His focus lies in the understanding of complex disorders such as those found in oncology, aging, and psychiatry. He uses machine intelligence to discover a holistic understanding of disease through genetics, microbiome, and other factors.

Graham Pechenik

Senior Advisor to Advisory Board

Graham is a registered patent attorney, with degrees in Biochemistry and Cognitive Neuroscience. Mr Pechenik gained over a decade of experience representing Fortune 500 companies in the agricultural, chemical, pharmaceutical, biotech, and technology industries before founding Calyx Law in 2016, the first intellectual property law boutique to focus on cannabis and psychedelics.

Graham is also editor-at-large of Psilocybin Alpha, where he tracks patent filings and writes about patent issues in the psychedelics space.

Ridley Doolittle,

Advisor to Advisory Board

Mr. Doolittle brings over 15 years of high-quality strategic marketing and rate of sale commercial excellence in both the consumer packaged goods ("CPGs"), ready-to-drink ("RTD") and start-up spaces. Mr. Doolittle most recently exited Bacardi as a Senior Brand innovation officer working across the North American landscape, to focus on consulting with companies who are looking to grow via marketing and innovative products offerings with the clear goal of resulting in global exposure and increased sales. Ridley Doolittle joins a strong team of advisors, including the Chairman of the Advisory Board Bruce Linton, to provide strategic advice and support to Chief Executive Officer Todd Shapiro, with respect to marketing and product innovation due to his background, expertise, vision and proven success of brand growth and product creation with both General Mills and Bacardi.