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VERSES® Appoints Public Market Veteran James Christodoulou as Chief Financial Officer
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb. 27, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VERSES AI Inc. (CBOE:VERS) (OTCQB:...
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[{"type":"text","content":"VERSES® Appoints Public Market Veteran James Christodoulou as Chief Financial OfficerPublic Markets CFO Hired as Company Enters Next Phase\n\n\n\n VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb. 27, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VERSES AI Inc. (CBOE:VERS) (OTCQB:VRSSF) (\"VERSES'' or the \"Company”) a cognitive computing company specializing in next-generation intelligent software systems, announces that the Company has named James Christodoulou as Chief Financial Officer of VERSES Inc. With this addition, the current finance team will remain in place and former CFO Kevin Wilson will assume the role of Executive Vice President - Finance and Accounting.\n \n\n Mr. Christodoulou brings decades of C-level leadership at privately held and publicly listed companies on the NYSE and NASDAQ. His experience includes FINTECH, EV Mobility, Electrification, Logistics, International Maritime, Energy, and Industrial sectors. As CEO of Industrial Shipping Enterprises Mr. Christodoulou negotiated with Somali pirates when they hijacked one of his tankers. In addition to his extensive capital markets experience, James has helped build and scale businesses for more than 25 years.\n \n\n Mr. Christodoulou comes to VERSES from Exodus Movement, one of the largest non-custodial crypto wallet, payment, and exchange platforms, where he was Head of Capital Markets and Corporate Development. He was instrumental in Exodus’ groundbreaking billion-dollar uplisting to the NYSE, becoming the first company in the U.S. to trade on a national stock exchange and digitally on Blockchain. He also established relationships between EXOD and Wall Street investment banks, research analysts and investors.\n \n\n “On behalf of VERSES I want to welcome James to the team,” said Gabriel René, Founder and CEO of VERSES. “I am excited to leverage his wealth of capital markets experience, and I look forward to working with him as we move into the commercial growth phase of our business.”\n \n\n From June 2022 to March 2024, Mr. Christodoulou was Director of Finance at Collectable Technologies Inc. (CTI), an early-stage PE sponsored FINTECH online platform and broker dealer that democratizes the ability to own high-end collectable assets that were once only available to financial institutions, collectors, or high net-worth ind...