Interview with Organigram CEO Greg Engel
Run time – 12:36 (Transcript below)
Published 6/26/2018
Transcript:
David Kretzmann: David Kretzmann here with OrganiGram CEO Greg Engel. Greg, first of all, thanks so much for taking the time to talk with the Fool today. I thought we could just kick it off. I know you’ve had a good amount of experience in the cannabis space, so if you could give us an introduction of your background, what drew you to cannabis and what specifically drew you to OrganiGram?
Greg Engel: Yeah, no. It’s a great question. I’ve been in the cannabis industry for three and a half years now. I was previously the CEO of another licensed producer in Canada before joining OrganiGram last March. My background is that I came from pharma and biotech, spent a couple years in consumer packaged goods. Had a lot of experience in starting up companies both in Canada and internationally. What really drew me to OrganiGram is the company is very well positioned to really be a leader on the indoor production side and with a high quality product. That was a vision I shared when I joined the company with the board, seeing you know, there’s a unique opportunity here where we see most of the expansion and what other companies are doing is expanding through greenhouse production and there was an opportunity for us to really focus on a high quality product and focus on indoor because we know with better environmental controls and more consistent approach and proven technology, we have quite a unique growing ability in terms of we actually … Every one of our production rooms is three levels, so we actually really maximize that indoor side.