June 19th, 2018 – Adastra Labs Inc. (“Adastra” or the “Company”) announces the hiring of Andrew Hale, MBA, BSAE, PMP as CEO of Adastra Labs Inc. and Adastra Labs Inc. “As a co-founder and now the CEO, Andy brings decades of leadership and management experience to Adastra.
Mr. Hale is a seasoned leader of high performing teams delivering operations and complex program excellence. He attended the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering. Mr. Hale served in the U.S. Navy as a career nuclear-powered submarine officer. He had the rare privilege to command three nuclear-powered submarines in the U.S. Navy where he led all aspects of operations, training, logistics and personnel, with ultimate responsibility for mission accomplishment on $4B national assets. Mr. Hale earned his Masters in Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst at the tail end of his naval career. Following his successful naval career, he was selected to transition to the U.S. federal civil service as a Senior Executive in the Department of Energy at Headquarters Naval Reactors to run all aspects of the entire Naval Nuclear Propulsion Training Program. His stewardship extended to three sites including four operating prototype nuclear reactor plants and more than 4,500 personnel. Mr. Hale moved to Vancouver Canada to permanently relocate with his family and entered the revitalized Canadian shipbuilding industry at Seaspan Vancouver Shipyards. He served as Program Director of a complex new construction design and building program and later as Vice President, Program Delivery to oversee all three of Seaspan’s Canadian National Shipbuilding Strategy Non-combat design and build programs valued at over $3B CAD.
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Andy Hale, CEO
Email: info@adastralabs.ca
About Adastra Holdings Ltd.
In Canada, Adastra (through its wholly owned subsidiary, Adastra Labs Inc.) is in the application process to become a Standard Processor under the Cannabis Act administered by Health Canada, with a licence to produce cannabis extracts. This licence will further enable Adastra and its subsidiaries to produce, package, sell (wholesale), and export medically focused and recreational cannabis extract and concentrate products in Canada to other licensed entities and internationally in jurisdictions where medical cannabis extraction products are legal.
The Company’s operations include a facility in British Columbia, Canada. The Company is developing its 13,035 square feet facility to be fully devoted to standard processing by late 2019, from which it expects to produce significant amounts of cannabis oil and/or hemp oil for the Canadian wholesale medical and recreational markets.
The Company will offer a suite of unique products under several existing consumer-focused brands, including tinctures, medicinal oils, concentrates, and when legalized, gel capsules and vaporizer pens. Through acquisition of existing cannabis extraction brands and careful development of its new brands, Adastra will be positioned to be a leader in branded, commercialized products in both the medical and adult-use markets across North America and internationally.
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