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Akanda Bolsters Leadership Team to Scale Medical Cannabis Platform Across Europe
Tom Flow Named Chief Operating Officer and Steven George Named Commercial Director LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- International medical cannabis platform company
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nTom Flow Named Chief Operating Officer and Steven George Named Commercial Director\n\n LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nInternational medical cannabis platform company Akanda Corp. (“Akanda” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: AKAN) today announced that it has appointed Tom Flow to the role of Chief Operating Officer of Akanda and Managing Director of Holigen, and Steven George to the role of Commercial Director, effective September 1, 2022. The Company believes that these two hires will enhance its leadership direction and boost profitability across the European medical cannabis market.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220824005303/en/The Company announced that it has appointed Tom Flow to the role of Chief Operating Officer of Akanda and Managing Director of Holigen. (Photo: Business Wire)\nMr. Flow is an accomplished global business leader with over 15 years of direct cannabis industry experience with an emphasis on facility design and operations, including multiple large scale EU GMP certified cultivation facilities. He is the co-founder of a number of cannabis companies during this time, namely MedReleaf Corp. which was subsequently sold to Aurora Cannabis (ACB-NASDAQ) in a transaction valued at C$3.2 billion, The Flowr Corporation (“Flowr”) (FLWR-TSXV) where he held executive roles including CEO, COO, President and Managing Partner, and Holigen Limited which the Company acquired from Flowr in May 2022.\n\nMr. George joins Akanda with extensive experience in the financial services and cannabis sectors. After beginning his career in business development roles within financial services, in 2017, he moved to Portugal to obtain his MBA and started working in the European cannabis industry the following year. In that time, he served as both Iberian Country Manager and European Alliance Manager at Tilray (TLRY-NASDAQ), where his accomplishments included Tilray receiving the first ACM (marketing approval) for a cannabis dried flower in Portugal during his tenure and managing the first medical cannabis exports out of Portugal to Europe and Israel. In July 2021, Mr. George left Tilray and started offering independent advisory services to cannabis clients across the European region.\n\n“Adding proven and elite global cannabis executives like Tom and Steven is an importan...