Investor Presentaiton
Leadership Team
Darren Footz
CEO
A serial entrepreneur, Darren is the past President
of Granville Island Coffee, a company he built in 5
years from a small artisan roaster to a national
brand. He is the innovative mind behind the
plant-based and fully compostable NEXE POD.
His expertise, dedication and pioneering ideas are
the backbone of our organization.
Ash Guglani
President, Co-Founder
Ash spent 12 years in capital markets with a
national investment bank in Vancouver. As an
original founder of NEXE, he plays an integral role
in helping NEXE in all capacities across financing
(public, private and government), operations, and
marketing.
Dr. Zac Hudson
Chief Science Officer
Dr. Zac Hudson is the Canada Research Chair in
Sustainable Chemistry at the University of British
Columbia. Dr. Hudson holds a B.Sc. and Ph.D in
chemistry from Queen's University, and has held
research fellowships at top universities in Japan,
China, the US and UK. His Ph.D. thesis was
named the top chemistry Ph.D. in all of Canada,
as well as the top Ph.D. at Queen's in any field.
Raj Kang
CFO
Rajwant S. Kang is the founder & president of RSK
Management Consulting Inc. a private company
that provides management services and has over
25 years of accounting and finance experience. He
has proficient knowledge of capital markets, raising
capital, M&A and corporate regulation of publicly
listed companies.
Don Chisholm
New Product
Development
For over 30 years, Don Chisholm has been working at
the intersection of business and design. With a
unique skillset that balances creativity with
innovation and strategy with operations, Don is
passionate about working closely with entrepreneurs,
executives and marketers to transform businesses
and generate results.
Paul Bhogal
Automation
Paul has over 20 years of manufacturing and
automation experience. He grew a small family
Hamilton-based machine shop into a Tier 1 & 2
automotive production machining/assembly/-
testing facility with two locations in Ontario and
one in Saltillo, Mexico
Anthony Rosenfeld
Marketing
Anthony holds 20 years of experience in marketing,
strategy and business development. In 2007, pursuing
his passion for natural health and sustainability,
he joined Vega in its infancy as Vice President
of Marketing. There he built a strong 50- member
team that developed a leading marketing program
overseeing consumer, trade, PR, creative and digital
marketing. He played a key role in building an
internationally recognized premium brand while
seeing revenue grow from $3.5M in 2007 to $200M
in 2015.
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