2017-06-15 02:45 ET - News Release
Mr. Chuck Rifici reports
CANNABIS WHEATON APPOINTS NOTABLE INDUSTRY PLAYER MICHAEL LICKVER AS EVP OF STRATEGY; UPDATES FINANCING
Cannabis Wheaton Income Corp. has appointed advisory board member and cannabis industry leading expert Michael Lickver to the position of executive vice-president of strategy.
Mr. Lickver is currently a corporate and commercial associate at Bennett Jones LLP, where he is a key member and helped build the firm's cannabis group, the leading cannabis-focused legal advisory business in the country. Mr. Lickver has played a key role in a variety of domestic and international corporate and commercial cannabis-focused transactions. He speaks regularly at conferences across North America on topics related to the cannabis industry, is a frequent author on cannabis issues and is currently the Canadian editor of the International Cannabis Law Journal.
Mr. Lickver is also on the board of advisers of Stoic Advisory Inc., a consulting firm focused on providing corporate finance expertise to clients in the global cannabis industry, as well as the board of directors of Summit Leaders, a not-for-profit organization that aims to help Canadian youth engage in entrepreneurship. In addition to his work as pro bono counsel to Cannabis Canada and Canadians for Fair Access to Medical Marijuana, Mr. Lickver is an adjunct professor at Western Law School, where he teaches "Medical marijuana: law and practice," a law school course, which he co-designed and the first of its kind in Canada. Mr. Lickver earned law (JD) and MBA degrees from the University of Western Ontario and the Richard Ivey School of Business.
As executive vice-president of strategy, Mr. Lickver will be responsible for developing, communicating and executing Cannabis Wheaton's corporate strategy initiatives.
