MANAGEMENT TEAM
Sibusiso Xaba
Cofounder and CEO
Sibusiso Xaba is a seasoned finance professional, having worked at Goldman Sachs and Investec in London over 8 years. He has extensive experience covering Africa, specialising in capital markets, debt structuring and syndication, venture capital fundraising, hedging solutions and portfolio management. Sibusiso has worked with African governments, sovereign wealth funds, central banks, pension funds and asset managers over his career, closing transactions worth over $5bn. Sibusiso is a Chartered Financial Analyst and holds a Business Science Degree from the University of Cape Town. He is also an Allan Gray fellow.
Derik Coetzer
Director - Investor Relations
Derik is an experienced business executive and entrepreneur. He has previously worked at Bain & Co and Deutsche Bank amongst other world renowned professional services firms. He completed his masters at Cambridge University. He co-founded an energy solutions business, Energy Partners, growing it to over 600 employees, now having an estimated value of $100m
ACA INTERNATIONAL
Jason Muloongo
Technology and Digital - Toronto
Jason has a background in aviation engineering building drones for national security reconnaissance missions. He built and exited two education companies. His first company got international recognition with an award from UNESCO for Best education product of 2012 and the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2013. His second company specialized in online courses for medical doctors and provided programs to over 400,000 healthcare professionals around the world.
Andrew Rosen
International Business Development - Israel
Andrew has extensive experience in the cannabis sector having set up his own branded hemp products business in the USA, CB Directive. He was formerly a director of The Cannabis Society, a leading global cannabis network that connects investors with entrepreneurs. Andrew has a background in sustainability, regulation and public policy. He has consulted to private and public sector stakeholders in cannabis. Andrew currently works as Head of Business Development at Cannamerx, an international cannabis products exchange.
STRATEGIC ADVISORS
Wandile Sihlobo
Agbiz: Chief Economist
Wandile is the Chief Economist at The Agricultural Business Chamber of South Africa (Agbiz). He has extensive experience in the agricultural sector both in South Africa and across the continent. Wandile forms part of the Presidency of South Africa’s economic advisory panel. He is also a advisor to the Eastern Cape provincial government on the cannabis sector.
Paul Rosen
Executive Chairperson: Global Go
Paul Rosen is among a handful of the seminal pioneers of the global legalized cannabis industry, and one of its most active entrepreneurs, advisors, and investors. Paul Rosen was a co-founder of PharmaCan Capital Corp (NASDAQ: CRON; TSX: CRON), and served as its first CEO and President for four years. Under Paul’s leadership, PharmaCan / Cronos Group acquired ownership interests in a number of the initial cannabis licenses awarded in Canada, and was the 3rd cannabis company to go public in Canada.
Paul sat on the Board and chaired the audit committee of iAnthus Capital Holdings (CSE:IAN), a multi state operator of cannabis assets in the United States. Paul is co-founder and CEO of Pantry (@pantryfoodco), a cannabis focused start up in the functional food market, and the Managing Director of BreakWater Venture Capital. He has invested and/or advised over 150 companies in the global cannabis industry including Avicanna Inc. (TSE:AVCN), Tokyo Smoke (NYSE: CGC), CB2 Insights (CSE.CBII), 1933 Industries (CSE:TGIF) and Lift & Co. (TSX.V:LIFT).
Paul has enjoyed a distinguished speaking and media career. He has appeared on/in Bloomberg, CNN, CNBC, Fox Business, BBC Business, Nasdaq TV, Yahoo Finance, The Economist, The Street, Barrons, National Public Radio and Cheddar TV. Paul is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada. He received a B.A. in Economics from Western University in 1985 and an LL.B. from the University of Toronto in 1988.
Tom Zuber
Founder: Zuber Lawler and Global Go
Tom Zuber is a Founder of Global Go, and a Founder and the Managing Partner of Zuber Lawler, which represents clients around the globe in languages covering 90% of the world’s population. At Zuber Lawler, Tom is the relationship partner for some 10 Fortune 500 clients of the firm, as well as funds and government entities. He has advised some of the most iconic companies in the world on their intellectual property disputes, deals and global portfolios. He has also represented leading cannabis companies for over 12 years. He is at the cutting edge of cannabis patent and trademark law. As examples among many, he has managed teams that have applied innovative strategies to obtain meaningful federal trademark protection for cannabis brands in the U.S., and the 2nd-ever-issued U.S. plant patent for a cannabis strain.
Tom’s experience representing both Fortune clients and cannabis clients allows him a unique perspective from which to advise large non-cannabis companies as to the launch of cannabis and hemp products and services. His international experience aids Global Go clients in growing their value across sovereign borders throughout the world. Few if any attorneys or consultants in the world are as well positioned to counsel cannabis companies on building the value of their cannabis-related brands and technologies.
Tom earned a J.D. degree Columbia Law School, a masters in public policy degree from Harvard University, and a biomedical engineering degree from Rutgers University, where he graduated with highest honors.