John K Bell

John K Bell

Independent Board Member

John K Bell FCA serves as lead independent director and chair of the audit committee.

Mr. Bell is chair of Stack Capital Group (STCK – TSX) and the Principal and chair of Onbelay Capital Inc., an investment holding Company.

John is the founder of Shred-Tech – global leader in mobile document shredding and was a founding shareholder, director and chair of Canopy Growth Corp.

John is a past director of ATS automation, the Royal Canadian Mint, the Hospital of Ontario pension plan as well as a number of other public companies.

Mr. Bell is currently a director of The Stratford Shakespearean Festival and past chair of the Waterloo Regional Police service, the prosperity council of Waterloo region, Cambridge Memorial Hospital and secretary and director of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation.

John is a fellow of the institute of chartered accountants of Ontario, and a graduate of the institute of corporate directors of Ontario and the Richard Ivey School of Business at Western University

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John K. Bell

Independent Board Member

John K. Bell serves as lead independent director and chair of the audit committee.

Mr. Bell is the founder of Shred-Tech Ltd. and Polymer Technologies, Inc., John K. Bell is a businessperson who has been the head of 15 different companies and presently is Chairman at CrossChasm Technologies, Inc., Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at Onbelay Investment Corp., Chairman for Stack Capital Group, Inc., lead independent director of Edison Oncology Holding Corp., and Director & Governor at Stratford Festival. He is also on the board of Stratford Shakespearean Festival of America.

Mr. Bell was a founding investor of Research in Motion (Blackberry) and previously held the position of Director at Canopy Growth Corp. and Chairman of Canopy Rivers Corp. (a subsidiary of Canopy Growth Corp.), Chairman of Waterloo Regional Police Service, Chairman of Prosperity Council of Waterloo Region, Director at RIV Capital, Inc., Chief Executive Officer & Director at ATS Corp., Chief Executive Officer & Owner at Shred-Tech Ltd., Director at BSM Technologies, Inc., Director at BSM Technologies Ltd., Chairman of HEXO Corp., President & Chief Executive Officer of Polymer Technologies, Inc., Chairman of Cambridge Memorial Hospital, Member of Institute of Corporate Directors and Secretary & Director at Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of Canada.

John K. Bell received an undergraduate degree from Richard Ivey School of Business.