Meet our team

Geoff Balderson
CEO & Corporate Secretary
Mr. Balderson has an extensive background in business and has worked in the capital markets for over 20 years. He currently acts as an officer and director of multiple TSX Venture and Canadian Securities Exchange listed companies. Mr. Balderson is the President of Harmony Corporate Services Ltd., a Vancouver based company that provides administrative services to publicly listed companies. Prior to this he was an Investment Advisor with two Canadian investment dealers. Mr. Balderson is a graduate of the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia.

Willie Tsang
Interim CEO
Mr. Tsang is an accomplished entrepreneur with over a decade of experience in business and product development. Having established a number of multimillion-dollar companies in a short span of time, he brings a wealth of entrepreneurial and CPG expertise to some of the fastest growing industries of today. Mr. Tsang possesses extensive experience in analyzing and interpreting financial and business performance. He is the founder and CEO of IMM Living Inc. , which began as a design and d cor studio in 2008 and quickly nourished into a wholesale and private-label service for illustrious companies such as Anthropologie and West Elm under Mr. Tsangs direction and management.
Our Directors

Ravinder Kang
Director
Mr. Kang was previously with the TMX Group and served most recently as the Director of Listings for the TSX Venture Exchange. Mr. Kang was responsible for overseeing all listings functions for issuers on the exchange, as well as developing and implementing policies that were relevant to the financial climate in which issuers participated in the Canadian capital markets. In addition to his experience at the TMX Group, Mr. Kang has served on the executive board of over 15 publicly traded companies.
Mr. Kang has also served as a lecturer at Simon Fraser University, one of the top universities in Canada. In this role, he was a lecturer for the course of Public Companies: Financing, Governance and Compliance. Mr. Kang received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of British Columbia in 1988 and obtained his Chartered Accountant designation at Ernst and Young.

Anthony Zelen
Director
Mr. Zelen is a serial entrepreneur who has over 23 years of experience in nance, investor relations, sales, and corporate development. He was the owner and president of Senergy Communications Inc. which focused on the public markets and was involved in investor relations, public relations and strategic marketing for the technology, cannabis, pharmaceutical, mining and oil and gas industries.
Mr. Zelen has served as officer and director of at least 12 publicly listed companies over the last 21 years. His business activities within the venture capital arena enabled him to establish a network of accredited investors, angel investors and investment banking contacts throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Over the last 23 years Mr Zelen has been involved in no less than a dozen startups including Diitalk Communications, a co-founder of Blockchain Intelligence Group and founding member of Allied Corp.

Diego Gianelli
Director
Mr. Gianelli is an accomplished business leader with +20 years of progressive global leadership experience in building some of the world's most iconic consumer brands and delivering strong financial results. Diego is an innovator, agile operator and servant leader with exceptional analytical skills and business acumen, having led complex business transformations in order to reinvigorate stagnant categories, turn-around declining businesses and start up new ventures in high growth environments in pharmaceutical, food and beverages, and QSR.
Most recently, Mr. Gianelli played a pivotal role in building the consumer business fundamentals and laying out the strategic groundwork for companies entering the nascent Cannabis space. He unlocked multiple digital/CRM strategies to target, convert and retain high value lifetime customers across every stage of the pathto-purchase funneling while complying with a highly regulated marketing framework.

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