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Dec 2019
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Christmas Present #5 – Irwin Simon, Inte...

The Green Rush
About this episode

To celebrate Christmas Week,
we’ll be providing our listeners presents throughout the week by posting some
of our favorite episodes from 2019!

For
our final episode of the week we are republishing one of our most listened to
interviews from 2019 with Irwin Simon, Interim CEO at Aphria, Inc.

A Canadian LP, Aphria is listed on
both the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange and has a
market cap of around $3 billion, making it one of the largest cannabis
companies in the world. Our hosts chatted with Irwin to get an update on the
state of the company since he’s taken over the CEO role and how his Company is
weathering the storm that is the cannabis public markets. We also cover Irwin’s
entrepreneurial journey, why he thinks consolidation is on the horizon for
Canadian cannabis and a preview of Aphria’s new edible and vape products set to
hit the market later this year.

Don’t sit back, lean forward and enjoy!

Irwin Simon, Interim CEO at Aphria, Inc.

Irwin Simon is a business executive who founded The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAIN) a leading organic and natural products company in 1993. As Founder, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, Irwin Simon led Hain Celestial for more than 25 years and grew the business to $3 billion in net sales with operations in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East providing consumers with A Healthier Way of Life™.

Irwin Simon has more than 30 years of business experience spanning many domestic and international leadership and operating roles. Prior to Hain Celestial, Irwin Simon was employed in various marketing and sales positions at Slim-Fast Foods Company, a dietary supplement foods company, and The Häagen-Dazs Company, a frozen dessert company, then a division of Grand Metropolitan, a multi-national luxury brands company.

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Show Credits:

This episode was hosted by Lewis Goldberg and Anne Donohoe of KCSA Strategic Communications from the Cannabis World Congress and Business Expo in Los Angeles, CA. 

Special thanks to our Producer Nick Opich and Program Director Shea Gunther at Marijuana Today

You can learn more about how KCSA Cannabis can help your cannabiz by visiting www.kcsa-cannabis.com or emailing greenrush@kcsa.com. You can also connect with us via our social channels:

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