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BC Craft Supply (CSE:CRFT) appoints Dr. Brigitte Simons as director

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CSE:CRFT
13 May 2021 09:00 (EDT)

BC Craft Supply (CRFT) has appointed Dr. Brigitte Simons to the Board of Directors effective immediately.

Dr. Simons received her Ph.D. in Chemical Biology and a Kellogg-Schulich Executive M.B.A. in operational business strategy.

Dr. Simons is a quality and regulatory compliance professional in support of science study-backed cannabis product development, laboratory services, and data management tools for the development of safe cannabis.

Dr. Simons is the Chief Operating Officer at Safari Flower Co., a craft-at-scale licence cultivator in Fort Erie, Ontario.

Dr. Simons leads the craft cultivation and tissue culture lab at Safari Flower Co. that services craft cultivators nationwide with genetic cleaning and microbiology propagation services.

“I am passionate about supporting sustaining micro-cultivators with better access to clean genetics and helping build quality assurance expertise to empower the BC craft growers community in commercializing their highly desired products. The strategy of BC Craft Supply builds upon my core values which enable better access to medicinal cannabis varieties while recognizing the virtues of small business craft growers who, quite simply, have done it best for the last decades before legalization.”

Dr. Simons is the Co-chair and Director of the Canadian C45 Quality Association and advocates cannabis compliance policy and education to the regulatory agencies.

BC Craft has issued 200,000 incentive stock options to Dr. Simons at a price of $0.055 per share for a period of five years.

The appointment follows the departure of Mr. Thomas English from the Company’s board of directors effective immediately.

BC Craft would like to thank Mr. English for his time and contributions made to the Company and wishes him well with his current and future endeavours.

A leader in the cannabis market, BC Craft Supply Co. has aggregated the best legacy-era talent from Canada’s craft cannabis industry, which boasts an international reputation. 

BC Craft’s subsidiary, Medcann Health Products Ltd., is a Health Canada licensed cultivator and processor with a license to sell medical cannabis products in Canada.

BC Craft Supply Co. Ltd. (CRFT) opened trading at C$0.055 per share.

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