Scott Praill​

Scott Praill​

Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Praill is an accomplished financial professional with considerable experience in the biopharma industry. Since 1999 he has served in various capacities, including as a consultant and Chief Financial Officer for several clinical stage, publicly traded, pharmaceutical companies. Scott is knowledgeable in all aspects of financial reporting, forecasting, budgeting, cash management, SEC and public company reporting.

Scott obtained his Chartered Professional Accountant designation in 1996 and his Certified Public Accountant (Illinois) License in 2001. He received a Financial Management Diploma (Honors), from British Columbia Institute of Technology in 1993, and a Bachelor of Science from Simon Fraser University in 1989. Scott began his career with Price Waterhouse (now PricewaterhouseCoopers).

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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.